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Has anyone elses catches declined on their favourite fishery over the last 5 - 10 years?
Having cut my teeth on the Leeds Liverpool canal in Bradford since the age of 11, I'm now 47. I'm a retired match angler. I'm also a dedicated cut angler. I've fished canals far and wide, from Holland to Loughborough to Lancaster to Nottingham to Doncaster to Wakefield to Beverley to Manchester ? You get the gist. But my all time favourite is my stomping ground of Bingley, West Yorkshire. 10 or 11 years ago I was consistently catching 50lb+ bags of Bream, Bream to 7lb+, Ide to 3lb+, Roach to 2lb+, Pike to 16lb+, Perch to 3lb+, Hybrids to 3lb+, Carp to 31lb+, 30lb+ bags of Roach, 365 eyes ? in a storm on the whip with a rubber caster ? Micro species of bullhead, loach, ruffe, and gudgeon. Featured in IYCF, AT, and AM. But then things started going downhill. With David Senior RIP around Easter 10 years ago we used to count up to 1000 Bream on my local stretch on a sunny day, that steadily dropped. Year after 500. Then 100. This year the shoal was 6 fish. Ghost Carp were aplenty, biggest caught was 24lb 5oz, mine 21lb 7oz, now zero they've all gone? Bream all but gone, Perch had a good couple of years but have gradually deteriorated, Pike were in plenty but now just the odd Jack, yet Roach are thriving? Or were. Talk of Otters taking Bream, Goosehander taking pound Roach, and Carp taken for the table. Do others think this fishery could ever recover or am I wasting my licence money? Do I need to take my begging bowl to Calverton fish farm and the C&RT? I've even thought of buying £500 - £1000 of fish out of my own money as it has great sentimental value. Sorry, so it's now two questions, can it recover? Has your fishery sadly died of death?
Tight Lines Jonathan
Having cut my teeth on the Leeds Liverpool canal in Bradford since the age of 11, I'm now 47. I'm a retired match angler. I'm also a dedicated cut angler. I've fished canals far and wide, from Holland to Loughborough to Lancaster to Nottingham to Doncaster to Wakefield to Beverley to Manchester ? You get the gist. But my all time favourite is my stomping ground of Bingley, West Yorkshire. 10 or 11 years ago I was consistently catching 50lb+ bags of Bream, Bream to 7lb+, Ide to 3lb+, Roach to 2lb+, Pike to 16lb+, Perch to 3lb+, Hybrids to 3lb+, Carp to 31lb+, 30lb+ bags of Roach, 365 eyes ? in a storm on the whip with a rubber caster ? Micro species of bullhead, loach, ruffe, and gudgeon. Featured in IYCF, AT, and AM. But then things started going downhill. With David Senior RIP around Easter 10 years ago we used to count up to 1000 Bream on my local stretch on a sunny day, that steadily dropped. Year after 500. Then 100. This year the shoal was 6 fish. Ghost Carp were aplenty, biggest caught was 24lb 5oz, mine 21lb 7oz, now zero they've all gone? Bream all but gone, Perch had a good couple of years but have gradually deteriorated, Pike were in plenty but now just the odd Jack, yet Roach are thriving? Or were. Talk of Otters taking Bream, Goosehander taking pound Roach, and Carp taken for the table. Do others think this fishery could ever recover or am I wasting my licence money? Do I need to take my begging bowl to Calverton fish farm and the C&RT? I've even thought of buying £500 - £1000 of fish out of my own money as it has great sentimental value. Sorry, so it's now two questions, can it recover? Has your fishery sadly died of death?
Tight Lines Jonathan