dezza
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With temperatures starting to approach 10 deg C this weekend in the South of England most people are starting to wonder how the "big freeze" will affect our fishing.
Personally as one who experienced the 62/63 winter, I think it won't affect our fishing all that much.
The 62/63 winter produced snow drifts up to 20 feet thick. On many nights the temperature dropped to below -15 deg C. It was so cold that water supply pipes were frozen solid and taps in houses didn't work.
And the sea froze in many of the estuaries.
This winter, up to now, has been nothing like as severe as 62/63, when the fish in many stillwaters around Britian died under feet of ice, not inches. None of the stillwaters around Sheffield have had much more than about 4 inches of ice on them this winter.
The 62/63 winter started early December and went on through to early March. The temperature in January stayed below freezing in most parts of the UK. My Father's garden was perma frosted until early April if I remember correctly. You couldn't get a spade into it.
Personally as one who experienced the 62/63 winter, I think it won't affect our fishing all that much.
The 62/63 winter produced snow drifts up to 20 feet thick. On many nights the temperature dropped to below -15 deg C. It was so cold that water supply pipes were frozen solid and taps in houses didn't work.
And the sea froze in many of the estuaries.
This winter, up to now, has been nothing like as severe as 62/63, when the fish in many stillwaters around Britian died under feet of ice, not inches. None of the stillwaters around Sheffield have had much more than about 4 inches of ice on them this winter.
The 62/63 winter started early December and went on through to early March. The temperature in January stayed below freezing in most parts of the UK. My Father's garden was perma frosted until early April if I remember correctly. You couldn't get a spade into it.
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