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Post by Pete Tyjas on Feb 27, 2021 9:21:11 GMT
If you're able to safely get to the water, all the very best for the coming season.
I hope you'll consider writing any reports from a day out on the water.
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Post by boisker on Feb 27, 2021 9:41:20 GMT
Not until the 15th and BT for me.... This settled weather has got me nervous, I fear it will break into monsoon style rain on about the 12th, a beautiful, still and sunny day on the 15th but with brown raging torrents.... I live in hope
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1stteamsunbed
Alevin
May the weather be fair and the trout keep biting.
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Post by 1stteamsunbed on Feb 28, 2021 16:55:47 GMT
Did any of you chaps get any last year?
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Post by boisker on Feb 28, 2021 18:17:11 GMT
Not me I’ve never fished for salmon and only really tried for sea trout a couple of times... I spend enough time (and my better half would say £££) fishing for bt... I did catch one sea trout on the Otter last season, whilst Nymphing a run into a head of a pool for trout... so that doesn’t really count
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Post by Pete Tyjas on Mar 1, 2021 15:26:48 GMT
Did any of you chaps get any last year? I found it tough last year, I can't tell you why though. There were some days when we felt we might have got lucky but didn't. My wife and I managed one each, she of course had the bigger one.
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Post by yeoman on Apr 15, 2021 17:26:35 GMT
Any news of fish caught so far?
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Post by paul on Apr 16, 2021 6:48:21 GMT
I'm stuck at home with a bad food, but did have a brief 15 second conversation with a salmon a week go.
So far, I hear, only two kelts caught on the stretch I fish.
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1stteamsunbed
Alevin
May the weather be fair and the trout keep biting.
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Post by 1stteamsunbed on Apr 16, 2021 10:53:37 GMT
"a brief 15 second conversation with a salmon" You forget Sir, it was only observing social distancing.
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Post by yeoman on Apr 16, 2021 16:15:52 GMT
I'm stuck at home with a bad food, Sorry to hear that, Paul....you need to have a word with Margaret😁
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1stteamsunbed
Alevin
May the weather be fair and the trout keep biting.
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Post by 1stteamsunbed on May 13, 2021 16:32:37 GMT
Well it's raining , what do you chaps reckon on things?
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Post by yeoman on May 13, 2021 20:07:54 GMT
I reckon the fish will be lucky to make it in alive with all the Slurry, Sewage and Chemical washoff that'll be going in..
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Post by boisker on May 13, 2021 20:57:07 GMT
although it looks worse, surprisingly It’s not as big a problem when river levels are really high... assuming there isn’t a complete slurry lagoon break down.... the dilution levels and oxygen from the turbulent water reduce any impact... the devastating effects of sewage, slurry, chemicals etc are in -normal low water levels... driving over the Otter this afternoon it will be a few days before it will be fishable..... a good flush will have done it good, admittedly it would have been better if half the top soil in the catchment wasn’t also in the river
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Post by yeoman on May 14, 2021 19:24:24 GMT
The impacts of sewage discharges are certainly apparent in lower levels, the bankside trees below STW discharges are festooned in sanitary products and increasingly those wretched 'flushable wipes'. Regardless of the impacts on fish, I find the whole thing revolting,and not fitting at all for an allegedly first world country.
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Post by halfstoned on May 14, 2021 20:38:32 GMT
Ofcourse the main problem with high flows is that it allows the water companies to legally dump raw sewage into our rivers under permit from the EA. Notwithstanding the illegal discharges when there are no mitigating circumstances.
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Post by boisker on May 14, 2021 20:49:02 GMT
I wasn’t condoning any of it... the state of our environment is appalling, just pointing it out the impact is lessened in very high flows and compounded in low flows...
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Post by halfstoned on May 14, 2021 21:17:01 GMT
Hey Boisker we know you weren't condoning it, just stating a fact. Hopefully things like the Panorama programe and people fighting for blue flags for river lidos etc.. might change things. At least the powers that be are at least talking about it, it's been swept under the carpet for far to long. Most people I talk to have no idea that raw sewage is discharged into our rivers, they think its all treated, maybe that's why people throw the wrong stuff down the lavatory, they believe the magic water people will clean it all up before helping the rivers out by giving them some lovely clean water. If only.
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Post by boisker on May 15, 2021 12:30:22 GMT
It is depressing... I fished a beat at Honiton I haven’t fished for ages, starting a few 100m’s below an outfall... immediately remembered why I don’t fish it.... sanitary products hanging like macabre Xmas tree decorations above head height... not the ‘at one with nature’ I had in mind... so got out the river and just fished upstream of the bridge....
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Post by yeoman on May 15, 2021 16:59:25 GMT
Yep, certainly is. I think halfstoned has hit the nail on the head...most people assume everything is screened out before entering a River.
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Post by johnesmithson on May 23, 2021 19:13:38 GMT
Any news of early salmon or sea trout? Fantastic running water this month!
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Post by johnesmithson on Oct 15, 2021 8:51:02 GMT
Did anyone have success this season with salmon or sea trout? Mike Weaver's report in this month's T&S suggests some action in places throughout Devon, but notably not on the Dart. Maybe the newly blessed fish pass at Buckfastleigh will help, but it seems like there is a particular problem in this system for migratory fish, despite the apparently healthy environment for spawning and juveniles.
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