Who is fishing ?

[Chris Plumb]

Thanks Mark,

 

I really did not know that, where were they stocked from, I always thought they had been there forever !!

 

Bob

Think most of it has happened in the last 200 years - I believe a lot of fish originally game from the midlands (Derbyshire Derwent, Wye and Dove).

 

C.

[Mark Wintle]

Think most of it has happened in the last 200 years - I believe a lot of fish originally came from the Midlands (Derbyshire Derwent, Wye and Dove).

 

C.

Seems likely that grayling were put into the Test and Avon in the early 1800s. I don't know when they were put into the Frome but interesting that the nearby Piddle doesn't have them although I have seen references to them from the 30s. Chub aren't indigenous to the Avon either - possibly circa 1880.

[Steve Walker]

The EA (or more so its predecessors) used to be pretty big on stocking grayling. Don't know why, whether it was an ecological judgement, whether they had an oversupply in their hatchery, whether they were removed from trout fisheries, but they chucked them in a few of the Mersey tributaries. As kids, we were a bit "couldn't we have had some normal coarse fish instead", but these days I love fishing for grayling and would love to go back for a crack at the populations they seeded.

 

As it happens, anglers illegally moved enough fish that those rivers also have good stocks of barbel these days!