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Grumpy old curmudgeons look away....

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Joe Winstanley

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I actually caught one (well foul hooked) on the Yorkshire Derwent at Howsham about 40 years ago and have never seen one since...
 
They appear in the Yorkshire Derwent Stamford Bridge weirpool every spring, hundreds of them. Last study I read about five years ago was that they were unable to transit the fish pass there and it hasn't been modified since. There was talk of the weir being removed but nothing has come of it.
 
I think the diminishing riverside industry has more to do with the higher quality of river water than any efforts the EA have made. One just happens to have coincided with the other. That's not to say the EA's efforts shouldn't be applauded.
 
I have been doing my best to look away for sometime now .
And had not considered the fact that I may be a grumpy old curmudgeon.
 
I reported on the Nidd thread last year that I had a dozen or so around my boots whilst wading in the river. I even bent down to pick a couple up (and return unharmed) and they weren't one bit bothered by my presence. I suspect the resident pike will be fattening up nicely as a consequence of their appearance.
 
Derwent restoration project

Gavin Hoe-Richardson said:
They appear in the Yorkshire Derwent Stamford Bridge weirpool every spring, hundreds of them. Last study I read about five years ago was that they were unable to transit the fish pass there and it hasn't been modified since. There was talk of the weir being removed but nothing has come of it.
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Only one I have ever seen was between Stamford and Scoreby many years ago.
Gavin according to natural Englands river Derwent restoration project they do have designs on removing or modifying those they cannot remove.
Not sure about time scales thankfully I dont think they will be doing to much In a rush for obvious reasons.
 
I have seen them in the Yorkshire Ouse and Swale for many years now . I have got an old photo somewhere of one my son fished out of a ditch running in to the ouse, from memory it was about 10 inches long , strange looking beastie .
 
One morning on the river Itchen tidal pool a friend and I saw an almost frightening Eel like creature swimming around, it was about 3' long, a mottled yellow/ brown colour and certainly unlike anything I'd ever seen before. I'd recently returned from a Spanish holiday where I'd seen a few Moray eels caught and it looked very similar, I assumed it must be one that had been dumped from an aquarium and put in the river.
A couple of years back one of those information boards was put up showing all the species in the pool, and there it was!, the Sea Lamprey, disgusting looking thing.
 
i have seen a few of these caught in rocky bays ect ones i saw were about 1-2 lb and i thought they were morays too but locals said not, either way i wouldnt have picked em up to unhook em:)
 
A big Dorset Stour barbel fell to a pike angler fishing a lamprey section a few years back, Neville fickling also wrote he had caught Barbel whilst fishing the Trent using Lamprey as bait.
 
My mate caught a cod in the spring with a lamprey attached to it. It had burrowed a few mm into the flesh and was very difficult to remove. Not a cudley creature.
 
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