I kind of get this in that my own immediate generalisation of a stillwater these days is that of a commie (perhaps, even likely, quite incorrectly) as opposed to the many large, natural and very hard lakes that we have come to know... and love (!!!).
I'm sure many fondly recall Peter Stone's early exploits on Tring?QUOTE]
Yes, and I remember my own attemps there as well, hard didnt come close.
On some days you wondered if there was even a single fish in the whole place, yet on a very very very few occasions you would need to burn your net to rid it of the slime
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There is a report/story of a distinctive colour marked Barbel being caught in both the Avon and the Stour in different seasons.
The original story, as told the me in Davis's Christchurch Tackle Shop was that the fish had gone into the saline waters of Chch harbour and from there into the Stour, only to return and be caught yet again in the Avon
However in a chat with Fred Crouch he poured cold water on this Avon-saline-Stour-saline-Avon migrating Barbel, telling me it was being put around by certain well known Barbel angler
With people transporting Catfish around I suppose the truth surrounding this Barbel may never be known.
However on the Lower Test there are certainly a few big Carp and Bream that live quite happily in the tidal section.
Just a thought, can a Wels Catfish live in the sea?
Nicepix,
The photograph of the migrating minnows is really interesting, did you take it yourself and if so where?
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Or some people........
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