Venues?

[cg74]

A pleasure.

[john m h]

Originally Posted by cg74

Ricky, all these rivers have resident barbel; take your pick:

Aire
Alne
Anker
Arrow
Arun
Biss
Blythe
Bollin
Bourne
Bristol Avon
Calder
Cherwell
Clyde
Colne
Colnebrook
Dane
Dearne
Derbyshire Derwent
Don
Dorset Stour
Douglas
Dove
Ember
Evenlode
Frome
Goyt
Great Ouse
Hampshire Avon
Hollybrook
Hull
Idle
Irwell
Itchen
Ivel
Kennet
Kentish Stour
Lea
Loddon
Lugg
Marden
Medway
Mole
Nene
Nidd
Ouzel
Penk
Ribble
Rother
Severn
Soar
Sow
St Patricks Stream
Suffolk Stour
Sussex Ouse
Swale
Taff
Tame
Tees
Teme
Thame
Thames
Ure
Vyrnwy
Wandle
Warks Avon
Wear
Wensum
Wey
Wharfe
Windrush
Witham
Worcs Stour
Wye
Yorkshire Derwent
Yorkshire Ouse



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You could add the Dee (Cheshire) and instead of one Rother as I stated, there are two; Sussex and South Yorks. I'll add more as they come to me but there's plenty to be going on with.... Salwarpe (Worrcs)....

You forgot the Eden (Cumbrian) and Tyne. The Northumbrian Derwent hasn't yet but its a Tyne tributary

[Judas Priest]

Colin

Anyone can cut n paste


You forgot the Clyde and Tweed, both have produced barbel with the Clyde producing some very good fish for years

[jasonbean1]

Ricky...3 clubs to consider joining are

loughborough soar as
quorn as
long eaton victoria as

visit bennetts of mountsorell and angling man in leicester...for good advice. Stu killen who runs angling man is a top match angler and knows the soar inside out. bennetts are more specy orionted, if leslie still runs it she'll give good advice...i used to work there.

soar lads are very quiet about what they catch... but join any of those clubs look at there waters and it will soon become obvious where to try first.

Jason













p.s..........cg74 is an arse ricky ignore him

[Lord Paul of Sheffield]

If I was you I'd look closet to home first - tha tway you will make more trips - Derwent ,maybe

[john m h]

The Lamb AC has water on the Anker. I know its ex Sec so I could get info if required. Only problem, but a 'problem' many clubs should have, is that all able bodied members have to commit to work parties throughout the year.

[Lord Paul of Sheffield]

John - it will be the dame old faces at each working party

And some well meaning but ill advised members can do more harm than good

[cg74]

Originally Posted by Judas Priest

Colin

Anyone can cut n paste


You forgot the Clyde and Tweed, both have produced barbel with the Clyde producing some very good fish for years

Yep Phillip, anyone can cut n paste but it seems not everyone can read a list; you'll find the Clyde sandwiched between the Cherwell and Colne.

A couple others to add too the list; rivers Whitewater and Blackwater....

TBH I never knew about the Tweed.

---------- Post added at 22:37 ---------- Previous post was at 22:28 ----------

Originally Posted by john m h

You forgot the Eden (Cumbrian) and Tyne. The Northumbrian Derwent hasn't yet but its a Tyne tributary

John, you're now accepting the Eden has resident barbel in it. Two and a half years back you wrote this: "Heard rumours of barbel (river Severn fish I believe) being introduced close to the M6 on the Eden in the 80's."

So I take it the rumours are true (actually I know the answer, so no need to reply).
What about the Peterill (not sure about my spelling but the Eden trib that joins near Carlisle utd's ground)?



Richard, what about stillwater barbel, I reckon Angling Times would be up for a well written article?

[Judas Priest]

That's why I don't floatfish Colin


Add the

Exe
Boroughmarsh stream
Welsh Dee (Not Cheshire Dee :-) )

How many though will be still "running" in a few years if the abstraction is allowed to continue ?

[cg74]

Originally Posted by jasonbean1

p.s..........cg74 is an arse ricky ignore him

Yeah but I'm not any old arse, I'm an expert one.

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Originally Posted by Judas Priest

That's why I don't floatfish Colin


Add the

Exe
Boroughmarsh stream
Welsh Dee (Not Cheshire Dee :-) )

How many though will be still "running" in a few years if the abstraction is allowed to continue ?

I can't believe Devon's river Exe, Culm and Creedy eluded me, afterr many hours being hounded by chub, bream and carp in a futile bid to bank a Devonshire barbel.

Borough Marsh stream, just apart of the Thames/St Pats/Loddon set up, I ain't messing around with all that..... Hinksey stream, Seacourt stream.... Nah that list is bloody endless... Oxford canal...

Abstraction WILL/HAS kill(ed) off every indigenous barbel river south of the Trent and many more besides; that is going to be the death of our river angling.