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The Lancaster Canal Trust are trying to raise support for the restoration of the Lancaster Canal Northern Reaches through to Kendal.

 

Lancaster Canal

 

If you can spare just a few moments to sign the petition, it would be much appreciated!

 

I live near the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, and not far away from the Rochdale, but I've spent many happy hours in my dinghy sailing what I can of the Lancaster. It truly is a lovely canal, and well deserving of a little support to see it restored to its full glory.

 

Janet

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They did something similar to the Droitwich canal. In it's unrestored state, it was a finger of wetland habitat threading through the county providing a home and a breeding ground for amphibians, birds and insects. Now, it's just another muddy ditch for the weekend yahoos to chug along in their dirty old boats.

If it was restored for it's original purpose of transporting heavy industrial raw materials that don't need to get to their destination quickly, it would have had my vote but weekend boating and (for a few hardy/desperate souls) fishing just don't cut it in my book and it'd be better off left alone.

Species caught in 2020: Barbel. European Eel. Bleak. Perch. Pike.

Species caught in 2019: Pike. Bream. Tench. Chub. Common Carp. European Eel. Barbel. Bleak. Dace.

Species caught in 2018: Perch. Bream. Rainbow Trout. Brown Trout. Chub. Roach. Carp. European Eel.

Species caught in 2017: Siamese carp. Striped catfish. Rohu. Mekong catfish. Amazon red tail catfish. Arapaima. Black Minnow Shark. Perch. Chub. Brown Trout. Pike. Bream. Roach. Rudd. Bleak. Common Carp.

Species caught in 2016: Siamese carp. Jullien's golden carp. Striped catfish. Mekong catfish. Amazon red tail catfish. Arapaima. Alligator gar. Rohu. Black Minnow Shark. Roach, Bream, Perch, Ballan Wrasse. Rudd. Common Carp. Pike. Zander. Chub. Bleak.

Species caught in 2015: Brown Trout. Roach. Bream. Terrapin. Eel. Barbel. Pike. Chub.

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Janet,

 

Signed and verified. I too love the Lancaster and Leeds/Liverpool for fishing but one day would love a narrow boat and travel the canal network, so anything to improve them gets my vote. :D

 

Got my lad to sign it too (he's 21)

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Just one big fish, PLEASE!!!!!!

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The Lancaster Canal Trust are trying to raise support for the restoration of the Lancaster Canal Northern Reaches through to Kendal.

 

Lancaster Canal

 

If you can spare just a few moments to sign the petition, it would be much appreciated!

 

I live near the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, and not far away from the Rochdale, but I've spent many happy hours in my dinghy sailing what I can of the Lancaster. It truly is a lovely canal, and well deserving of a little support to see it restored to its full glory.

 

Janet

Cant see how it would help the fishing which is so good mainly because of the lack of boats and it will still be a dead end.

 

A tiger does not lose sleep over the opinion of sheep

 

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All done Janet!! But surprised only 153 sigs??

Chris Goddard


It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.

If GOD had NOT meant us to go fishing, WHY did he give us arms then??

(If you can't help out someone in need then don't bother my old Dad always said! My grandma put it a LITTLE more, well different! It's like peeing yourself in a black pair of pants she said! It gives you a LOVELY warm feeling but no-one really notices!))

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done thanks Janet

"Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical

minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which

holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd

by the clean end"

Cheers

Alan

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Signed and Verified, I love our canal heritage and we should do all we can to preserve it.

As a boy I used to swim in the canal around Carnforth and netted my first sticklebacks there too, its a beautiful stretch north of Lancaster.

Our perception of time as an orderly sequence of regular ticks and tocks has no relevance here in the alternative dimension that is fishing....... C.Yates

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Done :)

John S

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Species caught in 2017 Common Ash, Hawthorn, Hazel, Scots Pine, White Willow.

Species caught in 2016: Alder, Blackthorn, Common Ash, Crab Apple, Left Earlobe, Pedunculate Oak, Rock Whitebeam, Scots Pine, Smooth-leaved Elm, Swan, Wayfaring tree.

Species caught in 2015: Ash, Bird Cherry, Black-Headed Gull, Common Hazel, Common Whitebeam, Elder, Field Maple, Gorse, Puma, Sessile Oak, White Willow.

Species caught in 2014: Big Angry Man's Ear, Blackthorn, Common Ash, Common Whitebeam, Downy Birch, European Beech, European Holly, Hawthorn, Hazel, Scots Pine, Wych Elm.
Species caught in 2013: Beech, Elder, Hawthorn, Oak, Right Earlobe, Scots Pine.

Species caught in 2012: Ash, Aspen, Beech, Big Nasty Stinging Nettle, Birch, Copper Beech, Grey Willow, Holly, Hazel, Oak, Wasp Nest (that was a really bad day), White Poplar.
Species caught in 2011: Blackthorn, Crab Apple, Elder, Fir, Hawthorn, Horse Chestnut, Oak, Passing Dog, Rowan, Sycamore, Willow.
Species caught in 2010: Ash, Beech, Birch, Elder, Elm, Gorse, Mullberry, Oak, Poplar, Rowan, Sloe, Willow, Yew.

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Signed and Verified, I love our canal heritage and we should do all we can to preserve it.

As a boy I used to swim in the canal around Carnforth and netted my first sticklebacks there too, its a beautiful stretch north of Lancaster.

I had a lovely walk from Stainton down to Crooklands for a pint and back only a few weeks back with the kids on their bikes and its still a beautiful stretch. Gin clear water and fantastic plant and insect life, not to mention the fish (donkey tench and grass carp). In fact i would say its the nicest bit of canal i know and perfectly preserved. I just cant see how opening it up to hoards of boats to chugging up and down it destroying the habitat will help it. The boat boys and girls have got the rest of the canals to go at, lets have one bit left alone is what i say.

 

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