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Have to say that the local food outlets are not great for the money.... Sarries has gone down in quality of late... Self catering is a better bet...Flanesford Priory gets positive reports from anglers on the bank.

Below the car park at the Royal, just on from the Saracens, is syndicate water as Mark mentioned. FOr B&B there is the Hostelrie at Goodrich, Inn on the Wye and a few others - have a look on Trip Advisor.

Nice one Jon.

Graham make sure you check the Herefordshire bus updates there have been a lot of cuts in the last year with early buses being removed etc etc...https://www.herefordshire.gov.uk/info/200187/public_transport/154/bus_travel

At one level fascinating, at another very worrying...it seems to me far too much reliance on anglers bait as the main food source in a number of rivers and that the EA has no idea about the impact of restocking or the requirements of breeding grounds - i am not surprised. Thought the teasing out...

Having worked in the private side of a private-public partnership with government, unfortunately FOI did not apply to the private side so we would frequently turn down requests and then of course there is the 'commercial confidentiality' aspect. It is the law around FOI that needs enhancing but...

Joe - I couldn't agree more hence the need for all encompassing research as it may be the otter is just a small player in all of this - the Kennet would be a good place to start.

Anthony - absolutely but we are frequently being told by the EA that water quality is better now than it has been for some time (for the Calder and Aire i fished as a kid i would have to agree). Yet we are suggesting significant decline in at least one species on many rivers, so we need a...

Howard I think the point Jon is trying to make is that we have to prove guilt - no one has to prove innocence especially when we all know and expect otters to eat fish. So the burden is with those who are suggesting that otters are the main culprit to provide evidence as such, which surely is...

The Wye of course is once again atypical as it has salmon, barbel and otters (not sure about the spooty herberts though)...so what is the reason for what appears (opinion not science) to me a more balanced ecosystem on this river?

Unfortunately, far too much of our so called evidence about the condition of riverine ecosystems is anecdotal and based on first-hand observation and this is what leads to the varying views held, hence 'emotion' takes the forefront rather than rational evidence-based discussion. In the 21st...

Phew - put up a post go away for a week and wow... My two penny worth, and I am a great believer in the science, is that we cannot generalise from one highly focused case study. Did the science in this case prove or disprove the starting hypothesis and actually what was that? Whichever, the...

This has popped up on my F/B feed tonight - couldn't see it on here https://fightingforfishing.anglingtrust.net/2017/03/26/barbel-and-otters-some-inconvenient-truths/

If you are using an SLR with an in built flash practice at home, outside with some silver foil so for a given distance you know which settings work best...set them up on the camera before you go so you are not fiddling in the dark. I wouldn't take an external flash gun as it is yet more kit to...

Biggie from the Thames on FB...

David ... I had some good fish at the bottom end of the Ashurst stretch but often access was a nightmare due to maize...Also fished Hartfield for trout all very small...but rarely saw a soul. Did have a tench one February at Fordcombe that is probably still the Mudway record...

Ray Not carried out by EA but sanctioned... http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/yourtown/abingdon/11883806.Anglers_say_Thames_towpath____looks_like_a_hurricane_struck___/

David Interesting point...I fished the Mudway as we used to call it from 82 to 99 when I moved and in that time rarely saw anyone above the RTWAS stretch at Fordcombe. It was I think Civil Service waters. I remember fields under water on a few occasions but more often very low water in summer...

I used to fish these stretches back in the 90's and given how entrenched the Medway is in parts I cannot see why flood defence would be a reason unless there is now housing where there never used to be. The weirs if I recall are not huge but are a feature of the river and should be left as they...

Stephen this is not the place for an economic discussion but you will have seen the headlines from the last few days re incomes and families and in times like these the lowest common denominator comes into play - maintaining the environment as some of us would wish is expensive so will not be a...