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Recent content by Paul Dowgill

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    The state of our rivers

    Plus climate change, which is going to be the issue going forward - I know it is already, but those in power have not yet grasped this. How long before start to experince large fires on the grouse moors and the possibility of pyrocumulonimbus storms which will bring flooding the likes of which...
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    Chris Packham

    Chris i think definitions are really interesting in our case. In my first five years of angling I never saw the country - it all took place in urban Leeds be it the local canal or pond ( the Aire was not really fishable in the 60's), so was it any different to my mates who played golf on the...
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    Chris Packham

    It is not a straightforward topic and there are a great many grey areas in what is seen as sport, hunting for the table, field sports and conservation etc. but I have never seen Chris Packham as anything other than anti country sports. And angling is a country sport. I would agree that there is...
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    River Wye phosphate news report

    Thought I would post this in the main board given it is the close season - came about as a result of our club's monitoring of phosphate levels...
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    Angling Times otter article

    Fascinating thread that i have just picked up on...Graham has alluded to a point I was going to make. I wonder how many of us would have caught a double figure barbel if we had been fishing in the 1950's, very few I suspect because...well there may have not been that many but why? A number of us...
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    Waterlogged

    We need to get used to it guys as wetter, warmer winters are going to become the norm - January's ave temp was 2.2C (coldest since 2010) - in the 20th century temps at or below this were typical 7 years in every 10; since 2000 it is only 3 in 10... This the Wye at Monmouth for the last two...
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    Fishing officially permitted

    Except Phil, IMO, you cannot travel 20 miles to fish - that in no definition would be deemed local and would undermine the work of the AT...looking at today's press it seems even stricter regs may be on the way.
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    Fishing officially permitted

    At FAQs today - local means local... Only local travel is permitted for the purpose of daily exercise as set out in the Government’s travel guidance here This specifies the ‘local area’ – ie. town, village or part of the city in which you live. However, there is a recognition that there will...
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    Fishing officially permitted

    As i have said elsewhere the govt. guidance is clear - you stay in the part of your city, town or village - district is certailny not local authority. For clubs this could be a pain to police...
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    Lockdown returns...

    Now were are in the awkward position of defining local...
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    Lockdown returns...

    The guidance states this.... You can only leave your home to exercise, and not for the purpose of recreation or leisure (e.g. a picnic or a social meeting). This should be limited to once per day, and you should not travel outside your local area. I think fishing comes under the R&L banner and...
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    Lockdown returns...

    Reading the 22 page guidance on Tier 5, it looks like, unless you have a large pond in your garden, there's no fishing for a while...
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    Photos of river scenes

    A few of the Wye Autumn 2016 Kerne Bridge The floods March 2020 - Lower Hill Court Biblins Xmas 2020
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    River Wye Flooding

    Walked down at Symonds Yat yesterday afternoon and it was a couple of feet below the bank top and is in the field at Kerne Bridge - it has pi***d down overnight and is doing so as I write this - the gauge at Ross (top one) shows it has fallen over night but it will be shooting up again - it has...
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    SAD REALISATION

    Haven't barbel only been in the Severn since the mid 1950's but these were the highest floods in this period?
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