I'm within reach of several rivers, and they're not drying up, so maybe I shouldn't complain. But I do worry why two of them - the lower Derwent and the Dove - both formerly prolific coarse fisheries - now only seem to throw up small grayling to myself and any of the few friends who still have the heart to fish them.
Asking why often gets the answer "things go in cycles". I've known cycles where one species of coarse fish takes a temporary dominance, like when you can catch barbel but not roach or vice versa, but having all the coarse fish apparently disappear is a new version of a "cycle".
Local club officials agree it's happening and say "cycles". They referred it to the EA who replied that it could be "the changing habitat" or the "cleaner river". If we can't have coarse fish in a clean river, I think that kind of explanation needs some further explanation!