GrahamM
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I can concur with much of what Mark says. There are miles of the Dove that are so overgrown you need a machete to find the river. And that will remain so until those stretches are populated with the number and size of fish that most anglers want to catch.
It's a double-edged sword, for if some of the stretches do become popular that will take the shine off fishing them for many anglers who love the solitude. No named fish on rivers? Tell that to 'The Traveller' and his mates on a certain stretch of the Great Ouse.
Yet the danger, as mark says, is that if we don't fish such stretches in greater numbers the clubs will stop renting them and they will become abandoned altogether.
My own view is that many of these stretches will just become syndicated and only available to those who can afford a big fee.
Maybe that is not such a bad thing in some instances.
It's a double-edged sword, for if some of the stretches do become popular that will take the shine off fishing them for many anglers who love the solitude. No named fish on rivers? Tell that to 'The Traveller' and his mates on a certain stretch of the Great Ouse.
Yet the danger, as mark says, is that if we don't fish such stretches in greater numbers the clubs will stop renting them and they will become abandoned altogether.
My own view is that many of these stretches will just become syndicated and only available to those who can afford a big fee.
Maybe that is not such a bad thing in some instances.