How to avoid gastroenteritis/stomach bug

[Graham Elliott]

Mike. I remember those Pink globuls from the Mill. Funny thing was the fish thrived in the warm discharges. Great perch, roach, chub and later carp made there way happily to the canal below the lock 1/2 mile downstream.

The best swim was the one below the weir at the mouth. Silkweed from the weir caught all kinds of fish.

Incidently, so did the swim 100 yards downstream, by the log across the water.

In the canal overflow, below the first bridge on the right was always alive with minnows, stone loach and gudgeon.

Happy days

Graham

 

[Keith Speer]

Graham
Went and fished the one that was the prime Roach swim below the weir last autumn, first time I have returned for 40 years, ended with a mixed bag and lost a big Chub.

Remember this?

Oh yeah I had this as well, I believe it to be some sort of Cat Fish?

Bit of a rubbish self take!!

At 6lb 9oz it is a PB for me from this little river!!
And I got her on a stick float and the Pin!!

Bet you didn’t get too many of those on your silk weed when you were a kid did you?

 

[Simon Haggis]

Ha ha what is that fish? I remember catching a glimpse of one once but thought it was my imagination. Seems they are real.

 

[Graham Elliott]

Keith. No barbel then for sure 45 years ago. That really cheered me up with this rotten cold. All houses now I know.


Back to the pollution. It's a real problem. As i said in an earlier post, last years disharges of raw sewage into the Thames were 10 x of the previous years.

Then you got the feeder streams like the Crane and the Loddon etc. No wonder the fishing is pretty hopeless.

Graham

 

[Paul Murray]

I recognise that spot ! Fantastic fish Keith - that must have been fun on the pin!

Regards

Paul.