sis the roach
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i dont know if its just me this season not caught as many roach or dace i fish the trent most but the derwent and the dove as been the same
I've not seen any marked change on the tees, other than the gradual decline in barbel over the last ten years. There still seems to be plenty of chub on the bits I fish, grayling populations fluctuate over time but as Chris said above, I don't get to concerned with poorer years these days, these things tend to come in cycles.
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Said it before I know, but the Thames is for the most part at least as good as I can ever remember it. OK the bigger chub are very thin on the ground these days and it's a long time since I heard of a barbel on the middle reaches but the roach fishing is far better than it used to be, and has been for a few years now.
The usual four of us had our fisherman's night out in the pub last Wednesday and as a conversation piece I had dug out my old "Captain's Card" from an AT Winter League at Dorchester, Shillingford and Benson in October almost exactly thirty years ago. Our team came 5th from 11 despite having two blanks and only three of the twelve of us breaking a pound (and one of them was with a single barbel); I had come 4th of the 11 in my section with an ounce and three quarters, about 6 pegs down from where I was yesterday in our club match at Dorchester. The lowest weight yesterday was 4-2...
It's a similar story regarding the swale with the pollution at Brompton in the 1970s
I'm just a smidge too young to know about that. What happened and what are the differences you perceive?
If you get chance the older match lads with tell you all about it mate. It's never recovered imo.
Yes those are all contributing factors to the current state of the river quality.
Don't know if Richmond still have the old cups and match results Sam but it would be interesting reading comparing results of old to current pleasure fishing on the river.
As I recall Richmond when they had the matches used to have some good barbel fishing back then.