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This is just a quick, but very important, post. The Angling Trust is urging all anglers out there (AT members or not), to respond to an Environment Agency consultation about their “best practice guidelines” for potentially destructive and controversial Hydropower schemes. The public can add comments to the consultation without logging in to the EA website, which will help sway decisions made about future legislation imposed upon the operators of these schemes. This type of electricity-generation scheme looks set to become more widespread in the UK but through both water abstraction and the fish-mincing turbines which are driven by water flow to generate electricity, such schemes pose a massive danger to both resident and migratory fish stocks and the quality & availability of river fishing. This particular consultation focuses on setting water flow rates & abstraction limits and it’s important that angling, fish stocks and other environmental issues are given utmost consideration when setting these limits. As anglers we need to ensure that opinion swings in this direction, which is why the Angling Trust has offered advice on how to respond to the consultation, to ensure we’re all pulling in the same direction.  Please take a few minutes to read through the information and guidance on the Angling Trust website and …

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This post is about something that you won’t catch me doing very often, but last weekend I fished a MATCH at Glebe Fishery (part of Ray Marlow’s Mallory Fisheries) and managed to come second out of 11 entrants. It wasn’t what I’d class as “proper” fishing – just lobbing a bait at a bunch of far-too-enthusiastic water pigs and reeling them in – but it was quite enjoyable to get a decent bend in the rod a few times. I mainly caught bream and carp, although there were a few roach and the odd perch amongst them, but others also caught crucians, rudd and barbel. I ended up with 72lb 6oz, with my largest fish being a 9lb 6oz mirror carp. Match fishing is not something I’m planning to do regularly. It’s just not for me, although the banter was good and it was a very social session, which is good every once in a while. Part of my 72lb Glebe Fishery bag The Environment Agency has released an extremely handy feature on its website, for checking river levels.  I believe it’s based on the same data they use for their “rivercall” telephone service, but it’s more up-to-date and it’s free to …

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