7 May 2012

a love-hate relationship

It would be fair to say that my local river isn't my favourite place to fish, there are a lot of things about it which i hate.

The bank sides become an  unnavigable jumble of wader wrecking brambles especially as the season advances

not to mention all the rubbish washed down from the town upstream, everything from shopping trolleys to old bikes and  kitchen sinks.


the water quality isn't the best either with a lot of treated effluent giving the river a certain odour,not the most appealing place to fish really is it?

Having said all that i was reminded again yesterday why i still have a soft spot for this river, it's not all bad!
A Five Minute walk from my back door and i was fishing on this lovely big flat pool, and with a good  hatch  in full swing the trout were only to happy to play ball, Col's cdc shuck was deadly!


the trout fight hard


The bank sides are also colourful just now, nothing fancy but its not all brambles and hog weed.


mother Mallard and her young


I went home from the river contented , it's never going to match  the streams we fish further afield in terms of beauty but  it's has a certain something all of it's own.     

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4 comments:

  1. Col7 May 2012 at 21:56

    Nicely put Brian .

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  2. Brk Trt8 May 2012 at 01:09

    Don't you just hate all that crap.
    People that's natures living room your dumping on.

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  3. Dougie8 May 2012 at 10:54

    I have a similar relationship with my local (old local), it suffers the very same problems and my new local isn't much better.

    At least one of these problems shouldn't exist but as long as there are people there will be trash I suppose, it's everywhere.
    http://yorkshiredalesflyfishing.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/tale-of-two-rivers.html

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  4. brian8 May 2012 at 17:11

    i know Alan, it annoys me no end but unfortunately here in central scotland a minority of people don't seem to care, and its not just our rivers, it's rubbish along the sides of roads, country lanes etc, its a disgrace.

    Aye Douglas it's no surprise that this is a nationwide problem in urban areas , one positive i guess is that the water quality on these type of rivers seems to be improving all the time, at least they have a healthy population of wild trout in them.

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