Recent content by Phil Nixon

Beaver dams can legally be removed if they are less than 2 weeks old, another daft rule from the EA, just make sure you check your fisheries regularly: " One such non-licensable action is the removal of dams less than 2 weeks old. Beavers build dams to retain water and create an aquatic refuge...

Gardner covert talon tips, unbelievably strong.

Welcome Peter, I would suggest you tube search for barbel fishing loads of tips on there. Can't help with Irwell as when I moved out of Manchester a long time ago nobody would have fished th Irwell for anything as it was so polluted.

The EA say that only rivers that flow from West to East have indigenous barbel in. They used to say that they wouldn't stock barbel into other rivers but this argument isn't used now. They have stocked barbel into rivers all over the country but still have the policy that they only stock if...

Day tickets for the Royalty will be sold on South West Trusts website next season. RDAA members will be able to access the fishery without obtaining another ticket but will have no concessions on the pools.

Not sure if Drennan still do the same Neil but I believe Nigel mentions in the video how grateful he was to the support from Drennan.

No Neil, Nigel is going to decide what to do after it has closed.

A lot of us have moved down Dave, still a great place to live (except the traffic!).

We are discussing with water company Joe and hopefully will have an answer by the end of February.

Fishery will carry on Stuart, South West Lakes trust are the subsiduary of South West water and provide leisure pursuits and good publicity for them.

I had a meeting with the water company today, they aren't sure what they are going to do but will be coming back to the club by the end of February. I have already posted on the club forum regarding this and that is where I will post any updates. I am sure a way forward will be in place for RDAA...

Hopefully Nigel will post but at the moment there are no plans for it to be sold, it will close at the end of business on March 14th. Really sad as it has been there for over 80 years but Nigel has to do what is best for Helen and himself.

This December we stocked another 200 barbel into Throop, these were supplied from the EA hatchery at Calverton and are about 12 inches in length. 17 of them have radio tags in them which will emit signals for 12/18 months. We have receivers on about 5 miles of river which will pick up signals...

I look forward to seeing you on the river bank.