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Damian,.. I get your drift but many of those I’ve seen on the banks of the Avon this past week have been enjoying the beautiful Avon valley surroundings and regard a good fish as a bonus. Like many of them I rarely put up pics of fish nowadays but would rather capture the ‘whole package ‘ as it...

Fabulous barbel Pete,..many congratulations .

None of this comes as a surprise, .. the boaters/ canoeists have been consistently more proactive than both riparian owners and angling,..... you could probably add wildlife trusts to that as well. Local councils,.. including mine are on a mission to open up rivers to the public on the basis...

Conditions are good for a barbel at the moment in my neck of the woods,.. but just fish according to conditions,.. don’t get tunnel vision over one species.

You could introduce a work party levy Mark which could be ring fenced for fishery management. Problem with that is it may cause resentment from some and would also lead to members turning up when they’d rather be elsewhere which is just a waste of time. We have weekly work parties and have a...

Can’t see it makes much difference Neil,.... if you test the action of a rod, pressure is applied from the tip. I would have thought that when a rod is bent round at full t.c. one or two of the eyes would be almost redundant towards the tip end as they would be pointing towards the fish? I’m...

Haven’t much use for alarms nowadays so haven’t really kept up to speed with what’s new. I started with a pair of Herons then brought hi and low tone optonics around late 70’s which served me well,... still got them tucked away somewhere. Although they were a massive technical step up from the...

Not a spot of rain at Ensbury,... dogs going apeshit though. Hates thunder.

The irony Joe, is that some farmers would like to see the return of mechanical weed cutting which would be the equivalent of pulling the plug out of the river and draining the meadows to allow a second silage harvest.

I’ve known quite a few fish kills associated with thunderstorms,.. as well as the sudden drop in pressure, torrential rain fills stagnant gulley pots pushing deoxygenated water into rivers,.. plus we all know many old sewers can’t cope,. . Another thing to watch for is a few days of overcast...

Who’d be a farmer eh Joe,.... last year the locals were fretting because it was too wet to harvest hay and that the price for winter feed would go through the roof. We need quite a few days of steady rain to counteract this current weather I reckon. The fields down here are brown and cracked...

I have a sad confession to make,.. I’ve had a barbel of around 8-9 lbs go belly up. It’s the only time I’ve knowingly lost one of my favourite fish and I’m gutted. It came from an open swim on a well known day ticket fishery,... and took no longer than one would expect to land on strong gear. I...

Just as an aside, further to my original post re. dissolved oxygen in lower Stour,... tested at 6pm today. Water temp was 22.7 c , air temp .. 28.7c. ( 73f and 83.8f) D.O. read 6ppm which is low as expected but a slight improvement with reading taken 10 days ago. There’s no doubt that...

I’m looking forward to the social crack G,.. even if I end up trotting breadflake for a novelty roach!! Hope we get some significant rain prior though. Going back to the thread,.. given the conditions and forecast,.. I would have liked a few more clubs and fisheries to flag up the risks of...

Done and dusted,.. all ready for your next visit G.!

Not “ holier than thou” Jon,... just personal choice,... the OP was asking a question if anyone had stopped fishing ,.. I answered a gave a reason why,...

Probably a slight margin of error but near enough to register when parameters aren’t what they should be Stephen.

I checked DO a couple of hundred yards downstream of a weir on the Stour at 6pm Friday,.. it read 5ppm which is low and also a time of day when I would be expecting it to peak. I stopped targeting barbel last week. They’re still feeding,. but their powers of recovery will be diminished at that...

Good post Paul,.. special day indeed. For the price of a club permit and migratory license some of the Avon venues represent great value imo.

The fish are spawning,.. the water meadows are full of ground nesting birds sitting on nests,.. the reed beds are dotted with warbler and bunting nests as are the banks with water fowl on the Havon,.... a wonderful and sensitive time when nature is replenishing itself. Any management chores...