Jason Bean
Senior Member
I've lived and fished around Oxford for 7 years....to be honest the fishing on the thames tributaries is terrrible around Oxford and they're not getting any better...there's a few fish around but they're hardly healthy rivers, the Thames is good but hardly a barbel fishery around here....there is some real die hards that fish this area though and fair play to them and they struggle to get their just rewards.
I'll be honest and say around here anglers are either travelling elsewhere for better specimen river fishing, fishing lakes such as the Linear complex or putting up and accepting how **** our local fishing is...these guys that hang around tend to be the older die hard club anglers that talk of yester year.
Might be a dire way of looking at it but I feel it's an honest veiw of what's going on around here.....fair enough there is still lot's of good barbel rivers around the country and we can easily travel to fish them...but what happens when the likes of the Severn, Trent, Wye and the other up and coming barbel rivers go down hill ? Where do we/I go for my barbel bagging then ?
I don't think the long term outlook is rosey and I don't wear rose tinted spectacles....it's just a question...
When do we stop chasing the fish and take stock of what happens on our own doorsteps, because if the same scenario gets played out nationwide in what's happening around Oxfordshire we'll all be stuffed in the long term ?
that's what I think anyway..... I can only say it how I see it on
my own doorstep and I beleive this is not the only region suffering the same.
But how far will it go ?
Cheers
Jason
I'll be honest and say around here anglers are either travelling elsewhere for better specimen river fishing, fishing lakes such as the Linear complex or putting up and accepting how **** our local fishing is...these guys that hang around tend to be the older die hard club anglers that talk of yester year.
Might be a dire way of looking at it but I feel it's an honest veiw of what's going on around here.....fair enough there is still lot's of good barbel rivers around the country and we can easily travel to fish them...but what happens when the likes of the Severn, Trent, Wye and the other up and coming barbel rivers go down hill ? Where do we/I go for my barbel bagging then ?
I don't think the long term outlook is rosey and I don't wear rose tinted spectacles....it's just a question...
When do we stop chasing the fish and take stock of what happens on our own doorsteps, because if the same scenario gets played out nationwide in what's happening around Oxfordshire we'll all be stuffed in the long term ?
that's what I think anyway..... I can only say it how I see it on
my own doorstep and I beleive this is not the only region suffering the same.
But how far will it go ?
Cheers
Jason