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River Thames at Penton Hook Gets a Spring Clean – Thanks to the TAC

By FishingMagic 31/01/2012 17:08:00

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TAC volunteers clearing the Penton Hook Island spawning channel (photo courtesy TAC)

The Thames Anglers’ Conservancy and fisheries officers from the Environment Agency spent a day clearing the spawning channel at Penton Hook, near Staines, in preparation for spring.

The channel, which was built in 2000, runs through Penton Hook Island and provides an important clean gravel substrate where fish can spawn away from the main River Thames.

The timing of the clearance was critical and timed to be before the fish moved down to spawn and whilst the bankside fauna was still dormant, so not affecting any nesting birds.

The flow through the channel had become restricted due to a build up of debris over previous seasons and along with overhang into the water was removing light and preventing plant growth.

For further images and details of the excellent work carried out by the TAC visit their website.

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Comments (3 posted):

geoffmaynard on 01/02/2012 11:49:57

Wonderful work chaps. But isn't it disheartening to see one of the largest cormorant populations on the Thames roosting just around the bend on the lake next to the PH Marina?

Peter Jacobs on 01/02/2012 11:59:32

Great work chaps. Penton Hook to me always conjures visions of Pike Fishing probably due to the Collin Willock book, "The Anglers Encylopaedia" that I had in the 60's. Therein was a picture, (if I remember rightly) taken at Penton Hook of a chap holding a Pike wearing a Trilby hat and a long-ish raincoat. So, from then on I always associated Penton Hook with Pike . . . . . . .

geoffmaynard on 01/02/2012 12:25:36

Most of the pike around here wear baseball caps :)

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