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Post by ronwoodtd on Mar 16, 2017 7:09:42 GMT
Forthcoming meeting, 29th March 2017. Times 7pm to 9pm.
The Dolphin Centre, Horsemarket, Darlington, DL1 5RP
Tea & Coffee served from 6.40pm
Meeting begins 7.00pm
In association with the Environment Agency
This meeting is open to all anglers and fishery owners and is free to attend.
Tees Rivers Trust Update, including The Your Fisheries Project.
Environment Agency Fisheries Update, to include the Tees Barrage.
Angling Trust Update, the latest campaign news.
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Post by Mick on Mar 16, 2017 7:14:49 GMT
Sounds interesting wonder if they have any plans to improve the fish pass at the barrage ??
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Post by andy76 on Mar 17, 2017 7:08:59 GMT
They need to Mick ,sure some get through but many more don't and the seals when arround just end up with a buffet
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Post by Mick on Mar 17, 2017 7:39:48 GMT
Yeh mate basha was down there last year and the seals were just sat waiting for the fish to come through before eating them  |
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Post by andy76 on Mar 17, 2017 21:30:28 GMT
I wish they had never put barrage in , the only fish that benefitted really were bream , and years ago more species came further down , I used to catch trout in yarm , and chub round bowwsey way
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Post by Mick on Mar 17, 2017 23:34:30 GMT
Fly anglers point of view Andy ?? To use a johnism. .."for sure" there was a lot of big roach shoals on the pre barrage days ....but after it was installed the big roach were replaced by big bream shoals on the lower tees  |
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Post by Darren R on Mar 18, 2017 11:03:11 GMT
It's a very different river now, I think the barrage is good think for the coarse angler. Given how much the water quality has improved over the last 20 years, the seal population has boomed, imagine how much impact the seals would have on fish stocks if the barrage wasn't there.
They would have free rein over the river, at least now a physical barrier restricts (slightly) there movement.
The Tees has 'evolved' and there are well defined 'zones' for species. Trout used to turn up everywhere and pike were seldom seen on the town stretches of the river. But now it seems like everything has 'there place'
Fishing a stick during the summer on certain stretches you'll bag up with dace, a couple of miles downstream these dace are in the minority and have been replaced by roach. Barbel and chub also have well defined areas which they inhabit, one of the most prolific stretches on the river for these species usually holds good numbers of both, yet only 1.5miles downstream they disappear and are often not caught/seen.
I like how the river has evolved, probably wouldn't have the same opinion if I was targetting the salmon and sea trout tho!
I do think that fish pass is a joke, I'd say if the barrage was built now they would have been forced to provide a much easier way for fish to navigate upstream
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Post by andy76 on Mar 19, 2017 0:08:48 GMT
The problem is daz most of them just don't find it ,and by the time they do have deteriated through stress as there drive to move up river but unable too exhausts them , IV seen seals literally that full they gonna explode , and fish bones in the rocks . The tees is better for bream only that IV seen , decent roach have all but dissapeared , decent eels also don't come out much many years ago my dad used to catch proper eels regular , and even boot laces are thinner on ground .
I'm not as experienced as you lads and you will be correct in what you say , but I remember sitting at yarm and catching trout,roach,chub, and dace, if you sit there now pretty much h just bream and perch .
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