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Post by grumpy on Jul 7, 2008 11:49:55 GMT
Pete I've heard grayling are appearing in rivers that rarely or never had in the past. Any idea why and what rivers are experiencing this?
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Post by Pete Tyjas on Jul 7, 2008 16:16:35 GMT
Hi Grumpy,
are you talking about rivers down here or generally? I haven't heard of anything new down here recently but believe there were some caught on the Creedy a little while back...am I right Treefella or is it my memory again?
With grayling being a lot less tolorent of pollution than trout might this be an encouraging sign? Any thoughts Happy Fisher?
I did a fair bit on a stretch of the Exe for 4 years and for the first 2 years I only had one client catch a grayling. Then they moved in and we couldn't stop catching them. There was a nasty pollution incident around that time and I wonder if that brought them downstream.
Pete
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Post by treefella on Jul 7, 2008 19:25:53 GMT
Hi Pete there has always been grayling in the lower Creedy , CFFC waters at Cowley / Halfmoon produces a few each year but they haven't appeared further up stream around Crediton
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Post by BarleBlanker on Jul 8, 2008 11:08:06 GMT
I see in this month's T&S that a few have been caught off the Otter. They must have been stocked... illegally.
I know that certain people within Taunton Fly Fishers have suggested that stocking the Axe with grayling would be a good thing. I don't think the idea has met with much approval! (I'm not suggesting that TFF have anything to do with the Otter grayling) I'm not sure they would take to the Axe anyway, roach and dace have become extinct in the Axe. At least one attempt has been made to restock the lower Axe with roach but they vanished. A few get out of Perry Street pond and live in the Perry brook but they have never colonized the main river so I doubt grayling would prosper. Also an illegal stocking of pike into the Axe in 2001 failed to produce a breeding population - so far...
Andy
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Post by Pete Tyjas on Jul 8, 2008 19:05:38 GMT
Hi Treefella, I forgot about the lower reaches on the club water so I guess I must have assumed it was the upper bit. Do you get down there much?
Just read the T & S article and looks like they must have been "dropped" in the Otter.
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Post by Pete Tyjas on Jul 9, 2008 9:46:14 GMT
Interestingly I dug out my copy of John Roberts "Flyfishing for Grayling" as it has a list of grayling rivers and streams in the UK.
Under South West Water Authority he mentions
Exe- batherm, culm, barle, lowman, brockley, creedy, haddeo
Tamar- carey, lyd, inny, kensey, otter, thrushel, lew, bolesbridge, deer, claw
Tone
Don't know if anyone has a copy but its a good read.
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Post by treefella on Jul 9, 2008 12:09:02 GMT
I don't fish the lower creedy myself it's a bit to urban for me but it is handy for our Exeter members who just want a hours fishing at the end of the day , was talking to one last night who had a 8 trout and a couple of chub also spoted a large seatrout in the tail end of a pool but virtually impossible to get a fly to!! treefella.
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