Bob Roberts E-mail member
Posted: 22/09/05 13:57:00 PM
One of my club secretary contacts dropped me a note along with some match results.
Had a match return from there a few weeks back and despite the river being up and coloured one or two hefty fish were hooked and lost. The odd barbel put in an appearance, too.
What worries me is that the Rother joins the Don not a million miles from here. Suggestions that the pollution might have come from as high up as Chesterfield would mean that fish have died throughout the system if fatalities were recorded at Eckington. So how come they WERE seen near Rother Valley Country Park and why would the harmful effects stop before reaching the Don? Indeed did they?
More to this than meets the eye.
Graham (Marsden),
Any chance of lifting the posts relating to the River Rother pollution onto a fresh thread so all the information is kept together and not lost in the mindless dross that some purport to be debate?
For those who do not know the Rother it was once the most heavily polluted river in the UK. Enormous efforts have gone into making it suitable to sustain fish life again. It's not a very wide river, nor deep, pretty much an insignificant waterway but it matters a lot to those who live in the catchment area.
Perhaps it would be nice if some of the posters on here who don't live a million miles away would go and have a go and feedback to us on their catches. Previously it was producing good chub, decent barbel, big perch, trout, roach and loads of gudgeon. What's in there now, who knows?