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Mortimer & Whitehouse Gone Fishing


I have worked with the Environmental Agency before, helped electro-fish the Cherwell River. Not even interested anymore, destroyed.
We managed to get funding for fences to stop the cattle getting in the river, gravel beds to assist the fish breeding. Even a fish stocking programme.

All stopped now, no funding.
The river silted up and no management. Don’t even fish it now, it’s dead and weeded over.
 
Swindon On Tour said:
I have worked with the Environmental Agency before, helped electro-fish the Cherwell River. Not even interested anymore, destroyed.
We managed to get funding for fences to stop the cattle getting in the river, gravel beds to assist the fish breeding. Even a fish stocking programme.

All stopped now, no funding.
The river silted up and no management. Don’t even fish it now, it’s dead and weeded over.
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That’s very sad mate. Sorry to hear that.
 
Big Jeff said:
That’s very sad mate. Sorry to hear that.
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Built dams with the farmers helping supplying stone, In the river with the waders with my Mate, Summer Evenings. Getting the oxygen over the gravel beds.
Happy Days Mate.
Used to climb up in a willow and watch the chub, around 3lb cruising under the surface.

They polluted the water and drained it stocking the canal and marina.
It’s dead mate. Gave up caring a few years back.
 
That’s awful. I was talking to a sea angler the other day - he said last summer they were getting bass well upstream in our rivers and remarking on how much cleaner the river was.
 
I worked for the Environment Agency when it first started in 1996. The first chairman was a Tory landowner who had loads of farmland. Guess how thoroughly they policed chemicals washing off fields into rivers! They were nearly abolished a few years ago, loads of staff left and they now they haven't got enough staff (or inclination?) to go after polluters. Shameful.
 
If you are missing your Bob and Paul fishing programmes, check out Robson and Jim's Fly Fishing Adventure. The first series is fishing in Iceland and the second series is in England, Scotland and Wales. They even have a tackle caravan they take with them with Bob and Paul framed photo inside it. You can catch it online or just say it into Sky Q

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Hettonlass said:
If you are missing your Bob and Paul fishing programmes, check out Robson and Jim's Fly Fishing Adventure. The first series is fishing in Iceland and the second series is in England, Scotland and Wales. They even have a tackle caravan they take with them with Bob and Paul framed photo inside it. You can catch it online or just say it into Sky Q

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I just can’t get away with Robson, I get the feeling he is scared of fish.

Seriously.
 
Hettonlass said:
If you are missing your Bob and Paul fishing programmes, check out Robson and Jim's Fly Fishing Adventure. The first series is fishing in Iceland and the second series is in England, Scotland and Wales. They even have a tackle caravan they take with them with Bob and Paul framed photo inside it. You can catch it online or just say it into Sky Q

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Robson Green can fuck off
 
Met him and Botham at an event at Hardys in Alnwick a canny few years back. Both so far up themselves it was ridiculous, especially Botham.
 
I met Beefy, Merv Hughes and Alan Border at Durham. Both was a bit off, Hughes was unpleasant and Border was superb.
I think Border was still Aussie skipper at the time and he was really impressive.
 
Hettonlass said:
If you are missing your Bob and Paul fishing programmes, check out Robson and Jim's Fly Fishing Adventure. The first series is fishing in Iceland and the second series is in England, Scotland and Wales. They even have a tackle caravan they take with them with Bob and Paul framed photo inside it. You can catch it online or just say it into Sky Q

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Sounds cack
 
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