Chalk stream Barbel and cold temps

[Mark Swaby]

Seeing the Wandle Barbel on the home page reminded me of something i heard recently.Chalk streams rarely run below 10 degrees, so even though the outside temperatures are negative you still have a good chance. I also fish a chalk stream and find that Barbel feed every day of the year no matter what the outside temperature is. So if you have a chalk stream in your area give it a try if you are struggling in the winter. Unless its the Colne, which now seems to rely on canal and sewage outflow to feed it because of all the borehole abstraction.

 

[Stephen Crowhurst]

Shame the same data isn’t available for the D.Stour as the H.Avon as you could male comparisons.

 

[John Walker]

i like chalk streams or chalk beds in rivers, it does make a difference