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Morning all.
The river is fining off nicely for a bit of grayling fishing. If any of you have been out and are catching grayling I would really appreciate please any news you have on catches etc. You can either ring me on 01200 423314 or e-mail me with news to
f.higham@talktalk.net
Many thanks
Morning all.
The days are beginning to draw out and this morning its a bit nippy but at least its dry. I’m looking forward to coming up to your( our) dinner on Friday night, I say ours as your committee have very graciously offered me honorary membership of Settle Anglers. I feel very privileged indeed and I thank the committee for even considering this honour. Many thanks to you all. The dinner is at a new venue this year up at Knights Stainforth and I’m sure Bob will have done everything possible as he always does to make it once a gain a great success
As two separate clubs we support each other so well working for our members and the river.
I think back to the many years we have enjoyed our rod exchanges and the time when we tried to come together as one club to buy a nice piece of water on the Ribble which was up for sale.
It was back in the late 80’s I think, or thereabouts, when Edisford Hall’s waters came on the market. It was too expensive back then for Ribblesdale to purchase it on our own so we approached Settle Anglers to come in with us. After two committee meetings both of our committees thought it was worth going for. We had agreed the cost and terms but on the afternoon when myself and the then secretary Andrew Butt had arranged to meet the agent to agree the deal I received a phone call from the agent telling me that a private wealthy individual had purchased it just that morning. It was very disappointing as its a great beat, good salmon pools and the sea trout fishing was excellent. It was also well stocked with brownies as well. So who knows if that had gone ahead what could have happened we could have come together as one club. But it just wasn’t mint to be.
Enjoy the dinner and again thanks to Bob for his dedication.
Morning all.
I don’t know about you but I’m glad to see the back of January, a very wet, cold and really depressing month.
Even thought is still miserable we have the first glimmer of spring as the bulbs begin to push through and in very sheltered places I’ve seen the first signs of leaves on hawthorn bushes.
We have a pair of collard doves already built a nest on the framework of our sky dish and they seem to have been sitting now for about two weeks. Very early but they reared two chicks successfully last year.
I have received the final counter figures for the fish counted up through Waddow last season, and also I’ve given you the figures for the previous two season to compare.
These are for Waddow only Last year we had a total of 3368 fish counted up and of these 1158 were fish over 4lbs.
In 2014 the up count was 3422 and those over 4lbs were 1020 In 2013 the up count was 2661 with 666 over 4lbs.
Last June we had a breakdown with the counter after a thunderstorm so the final up count for 2015 will be adjusted later.
In the middle of winter there is very little to report on and very little happening on the rivers which are beginning to drop back to a fishable height. I heard that two of Settle members were out yesterday and had a good day with the grayling which is very encouraging to know they are still there.
I was up at Settle last week and had a look at the hydro and a great bank of gravel and stones has built up in front of the gate leading down the channel into the hydro. As the river drops off more this gravel will restrict the normal flow down the screw. This poses the question, will the E.A. allow this gravel to be removed, as they have always refused when anglers wished to, not remove banks of gravel, but spread them across the river to provide better spawning habitat? This is an interesting one and we will have to see what happens. I know that the RFCA are keeping a watch on the situation and have asked the E.A. some questions.
We begin every new fishing season thinking, and indeed hoping, that problems which have been addressed that season have been resolved but we always seem to have more and different problems to face every season. If I was one to make a New Years resolution it would be for all fishing club committees a problem and stress free year. We always live in hope.
A very Happy New Year to you all.
What a wet one we have had up to now since November, four very big floods brought in by Atlantic storms flooded many businesses and households in the Lake district, Yorkshire, Scotland and S. Lancs. The most the valley has suffered is at Whalley and Ribchester, but considering everything we have got off reasonably light. what these unsurpassed floods will have done to the river and fish stocks we will have to wait and see when we take up our rods again. We had some salmon lost in the November flood how many again we will never know but it came just in the middle of the salmon spawning season.
Anyway I hope its not as bad as some are predicting. We always believe Mother Nature looks after her own, lets hope its right.