Hows the weed problem on the fens

[JackPike]

I an going to the fens next weekend just wondering if the weed has cleared on the cut off channel and 40 ft and 16 ft drains cheers jp

[steeplejack]

don,t find it a problem,moreof a challange than a problem.not been to 40 or 16 in a while.vanatts and southand north drove have plenty of weedy patches,mainly loose floating stuff court on the tops of the surface weed.need a good rise in the water levels so it can be flushed out of the siuice gates. sorry can't be more tecnical,but hey,it's a start.

[Peter Sharpe]

The Wide Welland is probably worse than I've ever seen it, and the Glen is virtually sealed over from bank to bank. I think a hell of a lot of nitrate must have been washed in during last winter.

[JackPike]

A week on now just wondering any change with the weed problem

[John Weddup]

look for a few good frosts and a flush through from rain. Util then no change.

[steeplejack]

took a friend a typical strech of a lincolnshire drain yesterday.he'd come 120 miles (his grandad had died)and needed a short time on the bank.we could only fish for one and a half hours,so i chose an untrodden spot,somewhere i,ve not fished or seen before,but had located on a landranger map.we are best mates,we'venot fished together since boxing day. what has this got to do with weed i hear you ask,we didn't care about the weed,we just needed to fish my mates personal best pike did stand at 9lb,i lent him my total set up,he caught a new p.b 20 1/4lb,chrisened my new 1-minus and made my day with the look on his face and his victory dance. :cool: :cool: if you need to fish just go,time is precious.

[Gray-Catchpole]

nice one steeple.

[wunnus]

Weed sorta hard to live with but ya carnt live without it.

Everyone seems to want to do away with it. But then those pike and perch, and chub , and... would nt hide along it.

 

Hey come to that those fish that hide below it would then see us along the bank.

 

What would I hide the line on if they took it away?

 

whats wrong with making a clearing in the weed... anyone want to borrow my rope??

[JackPike]

What I am talking about is the duck weed and that horrible stuff like a blanket of cotton wool i know that we need weed .On my local drain last week it was just like a giant green carpet probaly more a algae problem than a weed one look what happen at the Old Bedford River last month.

 

[ 06. October 2002, 08:24 PM: Message edited by: JackPike ]

[steeplejack]

luv that stuff,can cast my "moss boss"onto it,then plip by plip bring it to a hole,let it sink,few twitches,bang!!!pike. i like lots of weed :cool: