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.
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
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.
Nicely put Brian .
ReplyDeleteDon't you just hate all that crap.
ReplyDeletePeople that's natures living room your dumping on.
I have a similar relationship with my local (old local), it suffers the very same problems and my new local isn't much better.
ReplyDeleteAt 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
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.
ReplyDeleteAye 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.