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I reckon he's had a good life and it comes to us all in the end...so probably deserves congratulations of making a good go of his time while he was here👍

obtrusive or intrusive?

were you joking then Mike?

Some people, like me can't be arsed to faff around so eventualy just go elsewhere, I rarely look at fishing magic now for the same reason except it's a lot worst

What about the children though?

Steve, don't spread myths that there are lots of small barbel in the Avon...we all know these small rivers get wiped out of all the barbel if otters are present, even young children dissappear if the get too close to the water🙂

The Thames once you get towards Oxford is just a collection of long lakes that occasionally flows and they are big enough to buffer all the problems the smaller tributaries can't, particularly low flows and predation

Thing is in oxford we have the Thames which is stuffed with fish and then we have its tributaries that are the opposite. The problems vary greatly within river basins themselves.

Yep your right..some nice addidas trainers going cheap though Mike😀

in that scenario its hardly surprising he is being hammered by otters, more fool him for feeding them. and I will take the 5 otters with a pinch of salt unless its a family together and I know a lot of guys that fish the windrush still... in the main there's not a lot in there. The upper river...

I have noticed a slightly bigger banner ad at the top but its not been a great problem?

no...what I'm saying is, those rivers are in virtually no fit state to support barbel now regardless of the damage otters or any predators do.

Again, I'll think you'll find when the right keepnet is used correctly it will help with the recovery of the fish. The vast majority of match anglers I know treat barbel with up most respect when caught in matches and if less experienced anglers are seen to not be doing the right thing they are...

I think the Loz is where we have 2 different regions with 2 different problems. So when you include Cherwell, Windrush and Ouse within argument you set out they don't fit and perhaps vice versa when I include your region in mine. However I always thought the Teme was a very polluted river with...

You don't get it do you Neil, the most likely reason for the decline in the barbel population on a national level is pollution....whether that is sewage treatment works or agricultural and couple that with low flows it creates a terrible environment for fish to live in. So you can trivialise it...

Your too easy Neil...😀

I really do find do find it odd that barbel anglers scream there heads off about otters but pollution is ok, maybe even good? Beyond belief, really does show their ignorance.

The stockies in the Cherwell reached 8lb in 8 years

This country and they way it is run is terrible, it seems politically there is no will power to address environmental issues in this country unless it makes money...but slowly we are going down the pan. We used to talk about being proud to be British and I used to think that was because we did...