tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1528195593114932562024-03-15T16:07:07.502+00:00Life of a ChalkstreamLife of a Chalkstreamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00537310318259829331noreply@blogger.comBlogger252125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-152819559311493256.post-89389756118845174962024-03-15T16:06:00.003+00:002024-03-15T16:06:30.479+00:00#stopthes**t<p> </p><div align="center">
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Greetings!</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Fresh from their success facing down
Southern Water over the sewage pumping at Chilbolton last month Hampshire
river keepers are on the offensive again with a peaceful protest next
week outside Fullerton Waste Water Treatment Plant (just upstream of The
Mayfly Inn) which has been a serial polluter of the river for many years.</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Time and time again Southern Water
have acknowledged the pollution from what the river keepers call the
‘pipe of doom’ and time and time again promised to do something about it.
You can guess the outcome of that promise – beware low flying pigs. The
situation is so serious that local MP Caroline Noakes, asked the Leader of
the House of Commons an urgent question regarding the evasive answers from
Southern Water 29/February over the ongoing situation at Fullerton and also
called into question whether or not Southern Water were a 'fit and proper
company'. </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Nick Parker preparing to
sample the Pipe of Doom. Watch on </span></i><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001f1Y2fD6p0fSFahQPH0oyJ0VYALXWgOezVZKD0Q3W4w9xeiKowlCtMIHcHmBOzq_7abn13Y16RBcGW2ZTr2zN8nW7w9J9j5C5jDjM5Cg4ZDPOVjfOBtKHAQK0rJ5-iR2OqBoYwq1xb9gy5J_6xqvn9xfpQDjiKSLMLBoW1Qjz5Pi7N2eqbT6Mgg==&c=AWbrkRd4l4ALD1YtYtlie4E23R7AIEmoly3W0LdkZsgrO7f0dDSJew==&ch=MvNgpZet52mkpkbgirFt3WJf5NEvZ9pcR1Ph4sMugimrQ6hJEuo6Sg==" target="_blank"><i>You Tube</i></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Southern Water’s general defence in
these situations is that the pumping is essential, the impact localised and
the harm negligible. River keeping brothers Phil and Nick Parker set out to
show, in a 11 minute video filmed a few days ago just below the pipe of
doom at Fullerton how asinine such a ‘do no harm’ defence is. </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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different sides of the river, one side affected by the pipe and the other
not, they compare the results of weed, insect and fish life. The difference
is night and day. </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001f1Y2fD6p0fSFahQPH0oyJ0VYALXWgOezVZKD0Q3W4w9xeiKowlCtMIHcHmBOzq_7abn13Y16RBcGW2ZTr2zN8nW7w9J9j5C5jDjM5Cg4ZDPOVjfOBtKHAQK0rJ5-iR2OqBoYwq1xb9gy5J_6xqvn9xfpQDjiKSLMLBoW1Qjz5Pi7N2eqbT6Mgg==&c=AWbrkRd4l4ALD1YtYtlie4E23R7AIEmoly3W0LdkZsgrO7f0dDSJew==&ch=MvNgpZet52mkpkbgirFt3WJf5NEvZ9pcR1Ph4sMugimrQ6hJEuo6Sg==" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Watch the video</span></a></span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">,
prepare to be astounded and do, do share it however you can #stoptheshit </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><b><span style="color: #556b34; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 16.5pt;">The Pie Chart of Shame revealed</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">As promised, I bring you more on the
Pie Chart of Shame, that names the pollution culprits doing such damage to
our rivers and coastal waters. I include the latter, notwithstanding the
fact that most of the bad water that reaches the sea arrives via rivers,
but because it is important to form as large an alliance as possible with
the inshore sea fishing industry and leisure users as passionate as
ourselves.</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Though clearly not pollution, the
largest existential threat to our rivers, and chalkstreams in particular is
abstraction taking a 35% share of the blame. In short but explained further
in the You Tube video of the talk I recently gave in Nether Wallop, the nub
of the issue is that we have a water provision system designed at a time
when our population was 50 million and household water consumption was 60
litres a day. Today, a generation later, that consumption stands at close
to 150 litres and the population 65 million. </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Strangely, for most of the year and
in most of the UK, we have plenty of water to meet even that increased
consumption. But, in those critical months, generally July-October in many
parts of the country our rivers are being sucked dry. I can take you to
villages that surround the fast growing Hampshire towns of Andover and
Basingstoke, once picturesque for being beside the tiny headwaters of the
River Test, where the village pond has dried to nothing and bubbling brooks
a long distant memory.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The solutions lie in water storage -
no new reservoir has been built in 30 years. Water movement – a national
grid of water so the water rich may supply the water poor at times of
greatest need. Desalination - literally the only way we can ‘make’
water at times of drought. And finally, a la Singapore, take our sewage
treatment works to a new level so the water can be reused.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Next up is farming, the single
biggest polluter by some considerable margin. In just about every aspect of
modern day farming the processes and practices have a negative impact on
rivers. The dire effect on the River Wye due to intensive chicken farming
is well known. In Dorset, the dust that percolates into the River Frome
from the many thousands of acres of water-hungry maize is smothering salmon
eggs to death. Pesticides (there is a clue in the name) are wiping out huge
swathes of riverine insect life. I could go on, but I do wonder if anyone
in government is listening such is the power, and public sympathy, for the
farming lobby in the name of cheap food and food security, though whether
our food is either cheap or the supply secure is debatable.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The answer lies in a generational
change to farming practices that should be predicated on a ‘no harm’ basis.
In our society we have fairly clear social contract that the actions of one
person should not have a detrimental impact on the life of another. Why
should farmers be any different? Frankly, we do not need more legislation
or regulations. Simply enforcing those we already have on the statute book
would be a good start. As a farmer you will statistically likely have an
inspection from the Environment Agency once every 235 years – quite the
deterrent to bad practice – would that speed cameras be so sporadic! But it
is worse than that; the perpetuation of doing harm is institutionalised.
Take banned neonicotinoids that do such harm to bees, insects and birds.
Well, they are not really banned at all thanks to the fourth year in a row
that sugar beet farmers have given emergency approval for their continued
use. This reminds me so much of the organophosphates that nearly wiped out
British otters. It took thirty tears, despite a mountain of evidence
against the derivative of DDT, for them to be banned due to the powerful
farming lobby and a government that went along with the selfish arguments
for their continued use from the 1950’s to 1980’s.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The 20% of pollution from other
sources is more complicated including our feeble water companies of which
we know plenty, aided and abetted by appalling oversight from regulators
and government and a public that rails against the aforesaid water
companies but without taking a hard look in the mirror. We are what we use.
Look under any modern kitchen sink and you will see an array of toxic
chemicals unheard of 50 years ago, that go from plughole to stream largely
unimpeded. We have become obsessed with cleanliness e.g. wet wipes. at the
cost of nature. We have even transposed this obsession to our pets. Flea
treatments that are largely unnecessary but plugged by a veterinarian
industry that knows an opportunity when it sees one, are wiping out insect
life. Did you know the chemicals in flea treatments, fipronil and a
neonicotinoid banned (sic) in farming but legal for pets, remain on the pet
for 4 weeks? So, when you stroke your cat or dog then wash your hands
no prizes for guessing where the chemicals end up. And heaven forbid what
happens when you let your dog swim in a stream or give it a bath.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The built environment at 15% largely
speaks to the funnel effect of modern building: more houses, more roads and
fewer green spaces sees the washings from roads (brake asbestos/tyre
rubber/petro-chemicals and detergents) head straight into drains then rivers.
In the past twenty years we have built a million homes on land once
designated on flood plain, a buffer and filter, with one in ten of those in
designated flood zones. To repurpose the Kevin Costner quote from the film <i>Field
of Dreams</i>, build them and they will flood.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Finally, I have given 5% to climate
change though I do wonder whether this might be an overestimate. The first
thing you need to know about British rainfall is that the annual average
has barely budged over the past 300 years. The Environment Agency have
extensively modelled UK rainfall for the coming 50 years and concluded that
we might have slightly wetter summers and slightly drier winters, or
possibly the other way around. The fact is they are not really sure. As for
flood events, they are certainly no more frequent or extensive than in the
past though most certainly less fatal. A flood of the Wallop Brook in the
1830’s accounted for two deaths something that is hard to conceive today.
Also flooded homes today might just have something to do with the fact they
are built on land our forebears deliberately avoided for good reason. And
as to whether we will run out of water due to lack of rain, forget such
alarmism. We only need 6 inches of our annual 32 inches to supply our
needs.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">But ultimately, I give climate change such a low score
because, in the end, we are going to destroy our rivers and coastal waters
by our own localised misdeeds long before global warning gets us. You
may watch and hear more in my talk </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001f1Y2fD6p0fSFahQPH0oyJ0VYALXWgOezVZKD0Q3W4w9xeiKowlCtMIHcHmBOzq_7jK6vP4srSqEXCed0foJR-jiUsOIQ7V3QG-siVdVXPj7qBlETwAN2v33aPLgqVNRmjuZSVCLm_x_6r0tLncXycLZBWx97zGtmB9o-9MBX49tL9ceCUj1zAA==&c=AWbrkRd4l4ALD1YtYtlie4E23R7AIEmoly3W0LdkZsgrO7f0dDSJew==&ch=MvNgpZet52mkpkbgirFt3WJf5NEvZ9pcR1Ph4sMugimrQ6hJEuo6Sg==" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The state of our rivers and
how to save them on You Tube</span></a></span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><b><span style="color: #556b34; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 16.5pt;">Taking the pledge</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">I made a pledge to myself many years
ago that, if I complained about a lack of rain I could not, in all
conscience ever complain about too much. It must be said the last 12 months
have tested that pledge to its very limit.</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">As you will have read February was
the wettest in 250 years, the rainfall two and a half times the average for
the second month of the year. The past six months are over one and a half
times the average and the past twelve months almost the same. It is an
unprecedented run and different to the winters of 2013/14 and 2003/4 when
we had extreme floods interspersed with dry months. This has been
relentless: our river restoration programmes for October-December were
abandoned without a sod turned.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">So, what will it mean for fishing?
Firstly, you may have noticed some of our rivers scheduled for opening in
April will not open for until either later in the month or May. This is
often as much about protecting the banks, a few of which are currently impassable,
rather than the fishing prospects though it will certainly be harder to
spot fish in turbid water. Likewise, anticipate less than placid, gin clear
waters early on along with soggy margins. Wear boots or waders, go
carefully and take a long handled net.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">On the plus side we have more than
enough water in reserve to carry us through the season and winters like
this are amazing for the trout and salmon breeding population with egg
survival rocketing; expect a significant spike in the numbers of juvenile
fish when you visit the chalkstreams in 2025.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">I am a great fan of Jack Perks who
has made his name as the UK’s leading underwater freshwater filmmaker; he
often pops up on BBC <i>Countryfile</i>.</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Most days I catch up with his latest
short film, and sometimes madcap experiments in his back garden, that are
put out on X. His photos are always amazing, as is the underwater footage.
I also like his brief commentary of the daily topic that always has some
revealing nugget of fascinating information.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">This week Jack featured the water
shrew, the largest shrew species in Britain, which with a typical Jack
flourish he tells us also has a venomous bite. I must confess I was completely
unaware that (shame on me) there was a specific water shew that inhabits
wetlands and river margins, one of our three native species the other two
being the pygmy and common. Just for a change they are on no watch
list, with a healthy population of between 40-50 million living in Britain
though you will not find them in Ireland, the Scilly Isles or Channel
Islands.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Follow Jack Perks here </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001f1Y2fD6p0fSFahQPH0oyJ0VYALXWgOezVZKD0Q3W4w9xeiKowlCtMIHcHmBOzq_7vxoBfskvdFGkoXY-XYQafg6LUiwMnAUnJQT1v8QHfGdMmUJBG4Ro4Pu9GLAmguSKVOx-y4dCvuIx_Y59w6z9PHuulpPoC7Lx&c=AWbrkRd4l4ALD1YtYtlie4E23R7AIEmoly3W0LdkZsgrO7f0dDSJew==&ch=MvNgpZet52mkpkbgirFt3WJf5NEvZ9pcR1Ph4sMugimrQ6hJEuo6Sg==" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">https://twitter.com/JackPerksPhoto</span></a></span><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></u><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The normal random
collection of questions inspired by the date, events or topics in the
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<p><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">1)</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"> </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">What
intellectual cyber property was registered for the first time on this
day in 1985?</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">2)</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"> </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">How
many islands are there in the British Isles? a) 400 b) 1,400 c)
2,400 d) 4,400.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Founder & Managing
Director</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001f1Y2fD6p0fSFahQPH0oyJ0VYALXWgOezVZKD0Q3W4w9xeiKowlCtMDNqo07CMYKPz1F2SJ2P7ag0IpK0Pv-hrAuZNvAeK2Tbh8wR5O2YamjAY36ufBgzpn9bzkblfQusBuFZTiTo-xiq_fhURUULhZ0j73sNmZBe&c=AWbrkRd4l4ALD1YtYtlie4E23R7AIEmoly3W0LdkZsgrO7f0dDSJew==&ch=MvNgpZet52mkpkbgirFt3WJf5NEvZ9pcR1Ph4sMugimrQ6hJEuo6Sg==" target="_blank"><span style="color: white; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">www.fishingbreaks.co.uk</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">1)</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"> </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The
first Internet domain name </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001f1Y2fD6p0fSFahQPH0oyJ0VYALXWgOezVZKD0Q3W4w9xeiKowlCtMIHcHmBOzq_7U-Rh9dvKshEuRWW6R2sCSHc3GfFDwZZvTQIDcvRs_eCvY6LAYitOndoRTMm8J01giiUZC8ErieWsDVp6jwKp0g==&c=AWbrkRd4l4ALD1YtYtlie4E23R7AIEmoly3W0LdkZsgrO7f0dDSJew==&ch=MvNgpZet52mkpkbgirFt3WJf5NEvZ9pcR1Ph4sMugimrQ6hJEuo6Sg==" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">www.symbolics.com</span></a></span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">
was registered. It still exists making it the oldest of 350m internet
domains.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">2)</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"> </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Roughly
4,400 over ½ acre including 850 in Republic of Ireland. 210 are inhabited.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Shakespeare</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</div>Life of a Chalkstreamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00537310318259829331noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-152819559311493256.post-57721745063643730372024-03-02T11:57:00.000+00:002024-03-02T11:57:00.972+00:00My Pie Chart of Pollution Shame<p> </p><div align="center">
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Greetings!</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">We had a great turnout in Nether
Wallop for my talk on the travails of our rivers at which I introduced my
Pie Chart of Shame This visual is my effort at pinning, in a simple and
readily understandable way, the blame squarely on those who are most responsible
for the parlous state of our rivers, waterways and coastline, whilst
damaging, possibly forever, the fish and creatures who live in them, the
people who need to make their living from them and everyone who enjoys such
precious assets gifted to us by Mother Nature.</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">I know plenty of you are unable to
make these talks and have asked that I record one. Well, thanks to the
magic of technology (for that read Jamie Pankhurst who works in the Fishing
Breaks office as well as out on the river as guide and keeper) we recorded
the event on Friday night. We are just doing some editing, captioning
and it will shortly be available on You Tube.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">I will bring you more news next time,
but for now here is the pie chart minus allocations of shame, though the
miscreants are named. I think you will be able to pin the tail on these
particular donkeys until the full chart is revealed.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">THE PIE CHART OF SHAME</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Pin the tails on the
donkeys:</span></i><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Abstraction. Climate
Change. Pollution (agriculture). Pollution (the rest). </span></i><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The Built Environment.</span></i><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><b><span style="color: #556b34; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 16.5pt;">Pickering anglers score another court victory</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Back in December you might recall
that I bought you news of the Pickering Fishing Association who had taken
the Environment Agency (EA) to the High Court as a result of pollution to
the tiny Costa Beck in Yorkshire.</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">It was an unusual case in that it did
not seek to blame the EA for the pollution from the sewage treatment works
(650 recorded incidents in 2019-20) but rather their response which was
meant to follow guidelines set out on regulations that passed into law over
the past two decades. However, the Pickering anglers successfully argued
the EA consultation was window dressing and the subsequent plan a box
ticking exercise. The High Court judge agreed characterising the EA
approach as one of “smoke and mirrors”, noting that the EA programme of
measures could not reasonably be expected to achieve the stated
environmental objectives. As the angling club successfully argued, the EA
was in effect planning to fail.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Where the fight for our
rivers will be won?</span></i><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Subsequent to that judicial review
the High Court handed down an Order on 13 February that is highly
significant. The EA had argued that it was enough under the Water Framework
Directive and other legislation for them to offer pollution solutions based
at river basin district level, or even national level.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The Order denies this premise,
telling the EA they must provide for remedies to be undertaken at the
individual water body level. In the case of Costa Beck the EA cannot simply
say their Humber River Basin Management Plan, of which the Beck is a few
miles of many hundreds of miles, is enough but rather come up with a specific
plan for the Costa Beck. Costs were awarded against the EA and the further
costs to the Pickering Association capped in the event of an appeal by the
EA.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">This is another significant victory
for legal activism, a real case, assuming the EA does not win any appeal,
of David slaying Goliath which will ensure the EA will have to act to
actively protect each and every one of the 4929 water bodies in England
rather than come up with grand plans which sidestep very real local issues.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><b><span style="color: #556b34; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 16.5pt;">River Test keepers keep up pressure on Southern Water</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Talking of victories, the CEO of
Southern Water Lawrence Gosden has issued a letter in response to the
overpumping protest by river keepers on the River Test at Chilbolton last
month. He gives his personal assurance that no further overpumping will
take place into the River Test (this letter is dated 30/January) and the
Chilbolton overpumping was never really going to happen anyway, the arrival
of pipes, pumps and authorisations simply a contingency. We believe you
Lawrence, thousands would not. By coincidence, the day after that letter
and after further requests for information from
protestors, overpumping at both Penton Mewsey and Appleshaw into Test
headwaters, ceased.</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Cue huge sighs of relief but, there
is always a but, the relief was short-lived after reports from ever
vigilant River Test keepers. On 8/February, a mile downstream of Chilbolton
due to a ‘technical fault’ at the Fullerton sewage works, that is just upstream
of the Mayfly Inn that I am sure many of you know, there was in Southern
Water’s words, ‘a short duration of an unpermitted release of wastewater’.
Monitoring and investigations continue as I write, but Southern Water have
form when it comes to the Fullerton site which has regularly been featured
in the press, on TV and by local residents over many years as a source of
pollution.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">1)</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Who
released which album on this day in 1973 that has sold 50 million
copies since?</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">2)</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">How
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<p><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">3)</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">How
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<p><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">1)</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 7.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Pink Floyd <i>Dark
Side of the Moon</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">2)</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 7.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">12 or 13 the
latter happening roughly every 2.5 years hence the term ‘once in a blue
moon’.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">3)</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 7.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">D)
12 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</div>Life of a Chalkstreamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00537310318259829331noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-152819559311493256.post-25376695676177039252024-02-16T16:10:00.003+00:002024-02-16T16:10:19.268+00:00I bought a mill. Was I mad?<p> </p><div align="center">
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Greetings!</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Buying a mill is something of an act
of faith. Surveyors reports are a waste of time at the best of times (apologies
to FRICS members reading this but you know what I mean) as the
complications of foundations that have spent centuries, or sometimes
millennia, submerged sends your well-meaning assessor and most mortgage
companies running for the hills.</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Purchase is an act of faith and like
a pre-loved Land Rover, handed down through decades of ownership, nobody
really wants to tell you what you will find under the bonnet. With every
restoration there are the unexpected ‘what the f**k’ moments as the costs,
plus even the merest hint of finding anyone to carry out some obscure
building process probably last done in Medieval times, set to confound even
the most stoic owner.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">But then, even when it is all your
own, you will have the annual knockdown, drag out contest with your
insurance company where some AI driven bot has concluded that your mill
spends six months out of every twelve flooded despite the fact that no
flood claim has been lodged in a quarter century of ownership. Mills, you
point out repeatedly, laugh in the face of once-in-a-decade flood events.
Centuries of use has seen the building out of every possible flood
scenario. </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Now, to be fair to our insurers the
NFU, they finally get this after proposing one particularly egregious
premium hike. After much toing and froing, I offered, so confident was I of
the non-existent flood risk, that they remove flood cover from the policy.
Apparently, for reasons nobody could ever explain, this is not possible but
the very thought seemed to send the bot into some sort of existential
crisis and the policy was renewed with flood cover in place at a cost lower
than the pre-increase rate. </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">All this tumbled through my mind on
Sunday as I pondered some strange behaviour of the side stream that flows
in a 25 yard channel under one side of The Mill house – water seemed to be
going in at the normal rate but coming out in a trickle. If I was a
potholing enthusiast, I might have relished the challenge of inspecting
what is effectively a dark, wet tunnel a bit over shoulder width and with
two feet of headroom. However, the closest I intended to get was with a
high beam torch. At the entrance I hung over the edge of the stream, my
head so close that my hair flopped into the water. As the beam shined
darkness back at me it was abundantly clear there was some sort of serious
blockage.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Now my default in this situation is
drain rods, of which I have an impressive collection and a variety of bespoke
end tools. My plan was to penetrate whatever the blockage was until the rod
end appeared at the other end of the building. At which point I would
attach one of my ‘special’ tools, pull the rods back until the tool engaged
with the blockage to use brute force and the power of the built up water to
free whatever it was. Brilliant! It never fails until it fails, which it
did here. My rods were not up to the basic task of penetrating the
blockage, as effective as hammering a rubber nail into a brick wall.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">As you may have guessed the blockage
was not conveniently located close to either end of the tunnel; the drain
rods seemed to indicate somewhere in the middle. The first attempt at
ramming it with a 5 metre section of 2x2 timber amply proved this deduction
to be true as I lay in the stream (yes, I’d given up all attempts at
staying dry) with my head and shoulders in the entrance with arms
outstretched. Screwing a second 5 metre section to the first provided the
bingo moment with the satisfying thud of wood against blockage. Of course,
it is bloody hard to manoeuvre a square pole of that weight and length but
the water helped, floating it into position and the natural warping of wood
gave it a bit of a banana curve so by rotating the square pole I could alter
the height at which it hit the blockage.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">At first not much happened, a few
leaves and twigs floating past me until there was a bit of a rush of dirty
water followed by a yew tree branch, the clean saw cut indicating a
pruning. Goodness, I swore and wished great evil upon whichever villager
had discarded this in the stream. It is not by chance yew is the chosen
material for long bows; it never rots or breaks. A second yew branch
followed the first and all of a sudden, the stream was flowing as it
should. Victory! Or it was until I did one last check, the torch revealing
two pieces of timber, one each side of the tunnel that appeared to have
fallen from the roof onto the stream bed to create a V against which the
yew branches had lodged which, with the build up of other detritus, had
created an effective dam. The timbers clearly had to go.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Perching the torch in the stream on a
pile of flints for some sort of light it was now a case of randomly bashing
away with the 10 metre narrow pole, in the direction of the edge of a
narrow board in the hope they might connect. They mostly did not but
when they did it was enough to have some effect, the first floating down
into my hand the second more problematic jamming crossways a few times before
finally seeing the light of day for the first time in four centuries. My
guess is that when this particular part of The Mill was built these oak
boards, still in remarkably good condition considering the age and dank
environment, had been used as shuttering to cover up the stream on to which
the floor was laid. </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Anyway, to come back to my original
question was I mad to buy a mill? Certainly, on certain days it does
afflict you with a certain madness – Sunday was one of those days. But it
is a good mad. The flow of the water is endlessly fascinating and the
creative genius of whoever designed the layout back in pre-Domesday Book
days a constant source of admiration to me. And when I held those boards,
whatever nuisance they may have caused, I wondered of the person who had
last held them in the early 1700’s when Nether Wallop was part of the Earl
of Portsmouth (family name Wallop) estate that extended from Basingstoke to
the sea, George I was still yet to ascend the throne and life must have
been so, so very different. It is sort of humbling and makes it all
worthwhile.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><b><span style="color: #556b34; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 16.5pt;">Your rod licence money down the Swanee</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">I frequently take to task our old
friends the Environment Agency (EA) and the Angling Trust (AT) both here
and in other forums. I rarely get upbraided with regard to the former who
seem to have few friends these days, except in the corridors of power whose
mandarins as yet do not seem to have twigged the EA as a serial
incompetent. The latter has more defenders and CEO, Jamie Cook usually
fights his corner. But the latest figures that highlight a 14% drop in rod
licence sales in five years tie them to the same whipping post.</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">For those of you who are not aware of
the labyrinthine workings of the EA, part of your rod licence money is
redistributed to the Angling Trust who have a multi-year contract, which
runs to many millions of pounds, to promote angling whilst also policing
the enforcement of rod licences on the riverbank. </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">During the decade or so in which the
Trust has had this contract it has built up an impressive bureaucracy of
engagement, training, diversity and enforcement personnel to deliver all
this under the umbrella of the National Angling Strategy (NAS) which they
boasted in a press release on 18 January 2024 was doing ‘sterling
work … in helping maintain and grow the sport …’.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Really? The data from rod licence
sales tells a whole different story. Since 2018 (the NAS in current form
began in 2019) the number of licence buying anglers, after a brief uptick
during Covid, has declined by 118,211. In 2018 there were 847,846 unique
anglers, in 2024 that figure stands at 729,635. Whatever the EA, the AT
along with other funding recipients the Angling Trades Association,
Association of Canals and Rivers Trust, Get Hooked and Sport England are
doing it is clearly not working.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">My long held view is that it is high
time the rod licence was abolished; if you really want people to do
something do not tax them to do it! We do not pay to run in a park. We do
not pay to canoe on a canal. We do not pay to fish in the sea. We do not pay
to hike in a National Park. </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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you strip out the costs of collecting the rod licence, the cost of
enforcement, the cost of court prosecutions, the pointless money-go-round
of the National Angling Strategy you will be left with something under £10
million, an accounting margin for error in the mammoth £1.3 billion annual
budget of the Environment Agency.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><b><span style="color: #556b34; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 16.5pt;">Why our rivers are the way they are .... and how to save
them</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Just a swift reminder for those who
missed it that I will be speaking tonight in Nether Wallop on Friday 16
February on the topic, <i>“Why our rivers are the way they are ....
and how to save them”.</i></span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Doors open at 7pm for a 7.30pm start.
Admission is £10/person including a glass of wine with all proceeds to the
Village Hall Fund. Everyone welcome and pre booking not required. The talk
takes place at the Village Hall, The Square, Nether Wallop, SO20 8EX.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><b><span style="color: #556b34; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 16.5pt;">The strangest film on endangered Atlantic salmon you will
ever watch</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Wild Summon</span></i></b><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">,
described by the Bristol-based filmmakers as a ’natural history fantasy’
and mostly shot in Iceland tells the life story of the Atlantic salmon
through animation, CGI and a salmon-like woman in a wet suit.</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">If it sounds strange, it is strange
but it won all sorts of awards at the Cannes Film Festival last year, is
nominated for an Oscar and is up at the BAFTAs this Sunday. Personally, I
hated the trailer that almost stopped me watching the full 14 minute film.
But the film is brilliant. It encapsulates all that is amazing about the
lifecycle of the salmon whilst highlighting the natural dangers and our
human destruction.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">For most of us, we are pretty jaded
by the truth of the dangers to Atlantic salmon. But we have to hope that a
film of this nature, given enough visibility, will alert a new generation
to the wilful destruction of yet another precious species.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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can be </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001tY-tYY81ayAfyE5Ezg2-vj3XqMyondZxA84fWhXof8t3OJmrZZLKaBvz2e0JsG1hht1VyCHR_cf_MOBjfGjdr4HnKlM-ZResSrFMl6f6WwKSCSVp6OuLHCgg1zPFTpUh2WLVtPZa6K4IZ3OOCG0YZpfTQGHlSt9NH-n4VmPqy_B0uXrQ_W-e82wKU3u9gENFn-zpHWKLAtu7o3leSegFD97MEqPYK2ZA32_PDYE_UwO_YLms4Iz_fhKvK3Z4G6CT&c=9dWlMG11wt1YvKl_6SCjEEPafQU3Kdf6h7Yp8I1Ms7O0Onbp9AOOdQ==&ch=wloJbS35vGwCO-FPYG3f1QKxhK-dPEEUxPZrF4TdopP0-1bsA-PKew==" target="_blank"><i>streamed for free</i></a></span><span style="color: #121212; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> on Bafta’s
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collection of questions inspired by the date, events or topics in the
Newsletter. It is just for fun with answers at the bottom of the page.</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">1)</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">What
did Howard Carter open on this day in 1923?</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">2)</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Name
one of seven English towns or villages that start with the letter Z.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">3)</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Which
monarch was on the British throne in 1700? Clue: same name as the next
monarch after Charles III.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">1) The inner burial chamber of
Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun's tomb and finds the sarcophagus.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">2) Zeal Monachorum, Zeals,
Zelah, Zennor, Zoar, Zone Point, or Zouch.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</div>Life of a Chalkstreamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00537310318259829331noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-152819559311493256.post-4201257867561468782024-02-09T09:52:00.003+00:002024-02-09T09:52:57.971+00:00What is new and news for 2024<p> </p><div align="center">
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<p><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Greetings!</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">I know you all love the old
favourites, some of which have been with Fishing Breaks since what
sometimes seems like the dawn of time (33 seasons and counting ……) but it
is always good to ring the changes as aspirations change and we listen to
what you ask for.</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">I am often asked what has changed
most over my past three decades. The answer is pretty easy: catch and release. In
the early days of the business I had a few catch and release only beats but
really, the truth is, they did not sell well. In the 1990’s trout fishing
was still predominantly catch and kill. The first four fish you hooked you
dispatched and once the fourth was in the creel (does anyone still buy
these?) you headed for home.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">However, by the time we reached the
Millennium mandatory killing was a thing of the past, catch and release the
norm with the option to take home a fish or two on rivers with a stocked
population. I do read with some amusement, and not a little cynicism,
arrivistes to the wild fish/catch and release debate who seem to think they
just invented the concept, the rest of us being ignorant stockie
bashers. </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">You know this is not true because,
not least, over a third of Fishing Breaks beats are 100% wild, with over
two thirds of the beats (and 85% by length) home to a wild brown trout
population that comprise over half the fish in the river.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Click here to visit the </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001Iwn8dtq1xk1H3U26l1pmWTd6Q57rfKYZoC2GSy1LfdMhCGNdBvSCtNqSIIIm0PsDAxujP8SaqWaimtoH0zO-WJYd_TRNGxECVz7u8xjd1AgCrhawtMb4le9kedST8CxRH_20VlPv3WkhOjbo-pX4lJK9ibqGUPZA&c=GlmQT3cgu6GqXpjSP_H9eKWCV_PvyLhu-dLH7qORzYv7v3KT0xhkqw==&ch=AJ9UONzP8_Fx3_Fi_rj3bs4aEJEhjzeW_ikr0xU74w-Lc6a_sDTaOQ==" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Fishing Breaks website</span></b></a></span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">.
Full list of wild beats under Compare the Fishing.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Firstly, the good news. </span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001Iwn8dtq1xk1H3U26l1pmWTd6Q57rfKYZoC2GSy1LfdMhCGNdBvSCtGaoyvH3iieWSX7BfMXKDqz1P6LiT4XHihjbgegotOQWQKsc_DNuNrJPFw46k3dnrvv_tn53rU2Mb6UJDyf9FERdddmdrgbOt--1PiolAkCwfaqoFYXWNrINWiW_khooSN-dE1rr5YVF&c=GlmQT3cgu6GqXpjSP_H9eKWCV_PvyLhu-dLH7qORzYv7v3KT0xhkqw==&ch=AJ9UONzP8_Fx3_Fi_rj3bs4aEJEhjzeW_ikr0xU74w-Lc6a_sDTaOQ==" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Shawford Park</span></b></a></span><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">
on the River Itchen was sold recently but I am delighted to say the new
owners have enthusiastically embraced the fishing and the excellent river
keeper of some 15 years, Pete Glynn-Jones is staying on. The result is more
dates than in the past, with the opportunity for weekends.</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Broadlands Estate on the River Test
is currently making significant changes to the management of the river,
some 5 miles in all, which includes our <b>Broadlands House</b> beats. I am
hopeful we will be able to resume day rods in the medium-to-long term but
in terms of 2024 it is very much watch this space.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Also in flux is <b>Fisherton de la
Mere</b> on the River Wylye. Currently, The Dower House, the home the late
Robin Thompson who many of you will remember, which is undergoing major
restoration. Along with this, and possible changes in land ownership, again
watch this space.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><b><span style="color: #556b34; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 16.5pt;">New for 2024</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">I’m definitely expanding our horizons
beyond our comfort zone of the chalkstreams. Last year we introduced chub
and barbel with </span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001Iwn8dtq1xk1H3U26l1pmWTd6Q57rfKYZoC2GSy1LfdMhCGNdBvSCtKeQdnjgtxmOckv50iVGSNaAy3nzTQBcXp8lOwfjkUjLr3OWeMxjFy7DpNdjlR5gWh3jMZeE0DaPuhaBRdAeli1jU76gEYKMYp06kaJDYDdkSrGFpjLQ2KI=&c=GlmQT3cgu6GqXpjSP_H9eKWCV_PvyLhu-dLH7qORzYv7v3KT0xhkqw==&ch=AJ9UONzP8_Fx3_Fi_rj3bs4aEJEhjzeW_ikr0xU74w-Lc6a_sDTaOQ==" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">John Bailey</span></b></a></span><b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">on
the River Wye which is a great success. This year, and hoping for equal
success, perch and pike in the Lake District with Eric Hope and a hiking
adventure with James Waine in same part of the world, plus the Ladies Days
with Gilly Bate back here in Hampshire.</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Eric Hope</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">
has been going nearly as long as me from his base in Cumbia which
encompasses </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001Iwn8dtq1xk1H3U26l1pmWTd6Q57rfKYZoC2GSy1LfdMhCGNdBvSCtOUqnN24Wwe4MOstKuSfvJO4x_qvNKENVbplWqNAxdPR3u5c-2DbElQcVcdrhQgQe28HOKb8f0Jp1rHzzjKJYyqCOsQOBia7ekwljHGeYmIbCBAm3fb-eKI=&c=GlmQT3cgu6GqXpjSP_H9eKWCV_PvyLhu-dLH7qORzYv7v3KT0xhkqw==&ch=AJ9UONzP8_Fx3_Fi_rj3bs4aEJEhjzeW_ikr0xU74w-Lc6a_sDTaOQ==" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Derwentwater, Windermere
and the River Derwent</span></b></a></span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">. He really does offer a
complete service from pike (see fine example above) and perch from the boat
in Derwentwater, specimen hunting at selected times of year to salmon and
sea trout in the River Derwent. Tuition is offered and children welcome
from as young as 7 years.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">I have often wondered why a
particular madness afflicts fly fishers which makes us travel to the
corners of the globe in pursuit of wild fishing that is right in our back
yard. Young and upcoming guide <b>James Waine</b> has not only had the same
thought but also done something about it with his </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001Iwn8dtq1xk1H3U26l1pmWTd6Q57rfKYZoC2GSy1LfdMhCGNdBvSCtOUqnN24Wwe4ggg_MxNhB1sv6ZJ1Cy8HuMG7F8SGEK9Wbi5-Rd5dbPkqMiqO3ZclWYs5L2iunZTkeBZrmQmOQEVdkoOGq3lAF_XCUNVFFDkt&c=GlmQT3cgu6GqXpjSP_H9eKWCV_PvyLhu-dLH7qORzYv7v3KT0xhkqw==&ch=AJ9UONzP8_Fx3_Fi_rj3bs4aEJEhjzeW_ikr0xU74w-Lc6a_sDTaOQ==" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Hiking Adventure in the
Lake District</span></b></a></span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">. It is fair to say this
day demands a certain level of fitness that is not for all so James also
offers great guided days in County Durham on the Eden and Tees.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">James Waine: small fish,
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Finally, we are selling out the </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001Iwn8dtq1xk1H3U26l1pmWTd6Q57rfKYZoC2GSy1LfdMhCGNdBvSCtBH1_hqxu_vPvj2re-tEOtBwm9gh-zwFbDtV_9nUsNX2QINgm6myhnIObQn7ro1ZnQGLp1dyQc_VaR1u3sI4EGIU9wW84fdCuAAXk2x3d7SYnQugHhtfgiWST7ge3aNFLXmEm9eHiaea&c=GlmQT3cgu6GqXpjSP_H9eKWCV_PvyLhu-dLH7qORzYv7v3KT0xhkqw==&ch=AJ9UONzP8_Fx3_Fi_rj3bs4aEJEhjzeW_ikr0xU74w-Lc6a_sDTaOQ==" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Ladies Days with Gilly
Bate</span></b></a></span><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">. </span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">There is one place
on the Foundation Course (6/April) and two places on the chalkstream Course
(26/April).</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><b><span style="color: #556b34; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 16.5pt;">Simon Cooper talk: why our rivers are the way they are ....
and how to save them</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">I have largely retired from the talk
business but I will be speaking in Nether Wallop on Friday 16 February on
the topic, <i>“Why our rivers are the way they are .... and how to save
them”.</i></span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Doors open at 7pm for a 7.30pm start.
Admission is £10/person including a glass of wine with all proceeds to the
Village Hall Fund. Everyone welcome and pre booking not required. The talk
takes place at the Village Hall, The Square, Nether Wallop, SO20 8EX.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</div>Life of a Chalkstreamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00537310318259829331noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-152819559311493256.post-25152021800960585472024-02-02T18:19:00.002+00:002024-02-02T18:19:33.440+00:00We fought Southern Water and we won<p> </p><div align="center">
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Greetings!</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Punk band <i>The Clash</i> were right
about most things but for once they were wrong: you can fight the law and
the law will not win. A band of Hampshire river keepers proved this last
week when they squared up to Southern Water to eventually overturn plans to
pump 2.5 million litres of raw sewage into the upper reaches of the River
Test. However, before I tell you how they did it let me take you back a few
steps in the process of what is rather innocently called ‘overpumping’.</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">As you will well know much of Britain
is served by a sewage management system that was built to cope for a nation
as it was in the 1970’s when the population was 20 million fewer and water
consumption on a per head basis about half of what it is today. Combine
that with a built environment that has turned roads and housing into giant,
continuous funnels and you have a sewage system that becomes overwhelmed by
rainfall that would have dispersed without comment or incident 50 years
ago.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">As the Duke of Wellington
said addressing the gathered troops on the eve of the Battle of Waterloo: I
don't know how the enemy will see you but you scare the hell out of me. </span></i><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Overpuming is what water companies,
faced with all the above, do when their sewage systems are unable to cope
with the volume of wastewater in the pipes, pumps and plants. To overpump
they apply for a permit from the Environment Agency to flush the excess away, untreated
but usually dilute sewage, into the nearest river or convenient water
course. In the case of the River Test, the ‘overpump’ was from the village
of Longparish which is just north of where the river crosses under the A303
east of Andover, Hampshire. It was to be an unusually egregious form of
overpumping with the necessity to lay hundreds of metres of temporary pipe
from village to river and the digging of a temporary settlement tank
enroute (largely pointless and there for optics not effectiveness) before
the waste was poured into the River Test.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Here are the three things you need to
know about overpumping. Firstly, it has been going on forever but largely
under the radar. All those You Tubes clips of last year that showed the
outpouring of millions of gallons of waste for hundreds of thousands of
hours are the most visible evidence of institutional dumping. However,
public awareness has turned the spotlight on the practice which I suspect
would have gone unnoticed a decade ago. Secondly, the water companies do
not have any real incentive to deal with the issue because it is a good
deal cheaper than the alternatives, namely upgrading the infrastructure and
actually treating the waste. Ironically, the more degraded the pipe network
the better for them as the waste seeps, unseen, into the ground. However,
this out-of-sight-out-of-mind strategy gets upended in wet weather years as
the water table rises to the same level of the pipes thus eliminating
‘helpful’ seepage. Incidentally, most of the same logic applies to septic
tanks for private homes not on main drainage. Finally, the planning system
as currently configured will only make the situation worse. Let me tell you
the madness of it all.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Now, if you or I were building a
family home in an area without mains drainage we would have to install a
self-sufficient, private waste treatment plant at a cost of tens of
thousands of pounds that would have to fulfil vigorous environmental
regulation. If we were a developer building a thousand home estate we would
equally have to comply with stringent rules, not least in separating the
rainfall water from roads, roofs and run off from the home waste, with
separate pipe systems for each. Now this is the way of the future by
avoiding commingling of the large volume of largely harmless rainwater with
the undesirable output from homes and businesses. However, and this is the
madness of our planning system, having gone to all the effort and expense
of separating the two, guess where both end up? Yes, the law obliges the
water company to let us, the developer, connect both waste pipes to the
same main drainpipe! </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">You could not make it up but back to
our band of river keepers. Thanks to a brief, but sustained, blitz on the
local media, supported by the Test and Itchen Association and locals MPs,
the gathering of thirty or more river keepers by the Test in Longparish
last Friday, the day the overpumping was due to start, made for headline
news with TV crews and press. By some strange quirk of fate neither
Environment Agency nor Southern Water representatives attended, preferring
a brief press release saying the situation was now ‘under review’ with the
plans for over pumping entirely abandoned on Monday.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">It is a great victory for activism
following on from something similar in the summer of 2022 when Southern
Water tried to increase abstraction capacity from the River Test at the
height of the drought. I am convinced these fights will become more
frequent by necessity as our water system falters further under the strains
of aging infrastructure and the ever increasing demands on it. Hundreds of
billions are required to save us from our own waste but even if we started
today (LOL) the fights will need to continue for a decade or more.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><b><span style="color: #556b34; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 16.5pt;">Richard Slocock: a chalkstream life</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">I did not realise how much I would
miss Richard Slocock until I started writing to bring you news of his sad
death from cancer on 20 January. No more of those calls which usually
started with the words, “You are not going to believe this Simon …..” which
would lead us into some lengthy conversation about the latest madness from
the Environment Agency or some busybody body that purport to know the
chalkstreams better than those who have spent most of their working lives
on them.</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">For Richard was one of those people,
a man who began way back in the 1980’s when his Wessex Chalk Streams, which
focussed on the Frome and Piddle, took up where Dermot Wilson here at
Nether Wallop Mill left off. Richard’s business at Lawrences Farm in the
Dorset village Tolpuddle of martyr fame, was the most fully rounded
operation that I do not recall anyone coming close to replicating. You
could stay, you could rent beats, there was the trout lake for teaching and
a tackle store from which Richard dispensed advice, though in truth not all
of it cheerful. </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="ql-cursor"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"></span></span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Richard,
and I say this without a hint of criticism, was never one to talk up the
prospects for your day ahead. Maybe it was some cunning reverse psychology
on his part but whether it was or was not it certainly worked as he was
never short of clients and was still going strong last season despite his
illness.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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laughing about who knows what ......</span></i><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Richard was passionate about
chalkstreams and fly fishing long before it was fashionable to be such a
person. He campaigned in many guises including as Chairman of the Frome
& Piddle Association and created the guiding and teaching body REFFIS
as a commonsense antidote to some of the other, shall we say effete, fly
fishing organisations. He was also one of the founding forces behind the
Wild Trout Trust though it must be said he rather felt the Trust had lost
its way in more recent years.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">I will miss Richard greatly; he was a
huge friend to me from when I was wet behind the ears in this business both
as a source of advice and good humour. As Lord Tennyson wrote of <i>The
Brook</i>, “For men may come and men may go, But I go on forever.” I hope
that part of Richard’s legacy will be that that is indeed true of our
precious chalkstreams.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><b><span style="color: #556b34; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 16.5pt;">Time flies</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Times flies …… it will soon be time
to step out on to the riverbank for a new season. Just now that looks like
it will be a very soggy bank but hey, though a wet winter is not without
its challenges, I am not one to complain about too much water.</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Certainly, it truncated the grayling
season, with barely any opportunities since Christmas. Likewise, many of
the restoration and repair projects we had planned this winter are now on
hold to 2024/25. My advice is check those wellies do not leak and take a
long handled net.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Looking ahead to the coming session
we have not been able to put some diaries fully online; more news on that
in a 2024 Update Special next week that will contain exciting news of
fishing in Cumbria, County Durham, the Lake District and Yorkshire and not
just trout.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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top to bottom: Kimbridge (Test), Dunbridge (Dun) and Bullington Manor
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The normal random
collection of questions inspired by the date, events or topics in the
Newsletter. It is just for fun with answers at the bottom of the page.</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">1)</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"> </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Who
was buried in St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle on this day in
1901?</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">2)</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"> </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">How
many no. 1 hits did <i>The Clash</i> have?</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">3)</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"> </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Lord
Alfred Tennyson followed who as Poet Laureate in 1850?</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Have a good Six Nations weekend.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Best wishes,</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Simon Cooper </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="mailto:simon@fishingbreaks.co.uk" target="_blank"><span style="color: white; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">simon@fishingbreaks.co.uk</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Founder &
Managing Director</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001mF7NDmHgg2xzt35g_a_SJxcgj0BxryUkX63o8Pw_yNKwa_Ov4YUrb16znr5V5HAgXik4Ec8fOoQEuESFKxyJiP5Y_BSqKdr_ivr5Pr9mGtUNmKCxmVAIbex-Gy2tSAnTTzwbY5BE5paYNcCDBBbQbrN_6NNCW0Sy&c=2bJIobKQkXpkz1pl_Pak7GVMfmdO2uQXZV1EyWiEaJZ8f0UPe7sHBA==&ch=o1-Z-xH1dJZvpvIwF3vDBwjgtgxs4nJSnag626U35r34FuB3eHRRgQ==" target="_blank"><span style="color: white; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">www.fishingbreaks.co.uk</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Quiz answers:</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">1)</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 7.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"> </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Queen
Victoria<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">2)</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 7.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"> </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">None.
The best was no. 2 in the UK charts with <i>Rock the Casbah</i> in 1982<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">3)</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 7.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"> </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">William
Wordsworth<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</div>Life of a Chalkstreamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00537310318259829331noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-152819559311493256.post-70731914446388834122024-01-19T20:28:00.005+00:002024-01-19T20:28:52.518+00:00The Blame Game: MPs vs. Water company executives<p> </p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout layout--1-column" data-cpeid="w-1688652185931-927" style="color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="column column--1 scale stack" data-cpeid="w-1688652185981-841" style="width: 680px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1688652186026-334" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e2f2f; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><b>Greetings!</b></span></p><p align="justify" style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;">‘It is the economy stupid.’ Bill Clinton opined again and again in his relentless pursuit of the White House. I do not doubt for a moment that the man from Little Rock was right then and will be right again in this, our probable UK election year. But what of pollution and the water industry?</span></p><p align="justify" style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Last year the problems of the water industry were very much </span><span style="font-size: 18px; font-style: italic;">de la jour</span><span style="font-size: 18px;">; you’d have likely found it on most lists of top five issues concerning voters. Today, and as the election approaches, I suspect the state of our rivers and coastline, will drop down the running order. Let me tell you why this is.</span></p><p align="justify" style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Firstly, flooding is back, a water management issue which is more emotive than dirty rivers. Deluges are the nightmare of every Environment Agency PR person. It is the issue the EA throws the vast bulk of their £1.3 billion budget at. It is also the issue where the truth will not speak its name. In the past quarter of a century we have built, or more accurately had built for us, over a million homes in flood risk areas – to misquote the Kevin Costner baseball film, </span><span style="font-size: 18px; font-style: italic;">Field of Dreams</span><span style="font-size: 18px;">, build them and they will flood.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout layout--1-column" data-cpeid="w-1690984991297-991" style="color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="column column--1 scale stack" data-cpeid="w-1690984991352-285" style="width: 680px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="image image--padding-vertical image--mobile-scale image--mobile-center" data-cpeid="w-1690984991401-477" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="image_container content-padding-horizontal" style="padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><img alt="" class="image_content" data-image-content="" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/b34931e7001/b582ab69-aaf5-428f-9b1b-76c4b1633674.jpg?rdr=true" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="620" /></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1705521157767-156" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e2f2f; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><p align="center" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;">House of Commons committee bruisers l-r Darren Jones MP, Cathryn Ross Thames Water CEO and Barry Gardiner MP</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout layout--1-column" data-cpeid="w-1688647977617-393" style="color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="column column--1 scale stack" data-cpeid="w-1688647977617-322" style="width: 680px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1688647977617-383" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e2f2f; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Next, there is only so much outrage society has in its emotional bank. Currently, and understandably, the public have moved on from pollution to the Post Office scandal which in some ways reflect each other. Now, I am not for one moment trying to equate the personal grief of the Post Office managers to anything that has happened in the water industry, but the theme of a large organisation, take your pick of Ofwat, the EA or any one of the water companies, wilfully steamrollering the evident truth to conceal malpractice is the common theme.</span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Thirdly, the absence of a clear set of publicly agreed solutions is hampering the debate as to how we solve our pollution problems. To their credit the Liberal Democrats have issued draft manifesto commitments on this topic but it is hard to conclude anything other than that their ‘solutions’ are much more than a few bullet points for further discussion. Inevitably, once the election comes around the debate will descend into water company bashing and nationalisation vs. privatisation.</span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">If you want a taste of this watch the MPs (if you have 15 minutes of your life you do not need back .... </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFXqJBldno8" style="color: blue; font-size: 18px;" target="_blank">link here)</a><span style="font-size: 18px;"> on the House of Commons Select Committee trying to take chunks out of Thames Water executives. Opinions differ as to who came out of it best but for my money the MPs were badly damaged by the Thames counterpunching. Perhaps most illuminating were the exchanges with Cathryn Ross, currently Thames Water CEO who was in a previous life, until 2014, Chief Executive of water regulator Ofwat.</span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Essentially, so went the line of reasoning by Labour MP Darren Jones, Ross should, issue a grovelling apology because there was a direct line of travel from her decisions whilst at Ofwat to the state of Thames Water finances today. She refused, and not unreasonably, pointed out that Ofwat can only operate within the terms of reference handed to them by government. She was too savvy to suggest that it was the government who should really be doing the apologising but it is the very point that really takes us to the nub of the pollution debate.</span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Historically, governments have seen the water industry as a too hard to handle problem. They knew it did, and does, require vast expenditure, running to hundreds of billions. You can pay that in one of two ways: taxes or bills.</span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span class="ql-cursor"></span>The Thatcher government dodged that first bullet by privatising the industry but neutered capitalist creativity by creating the regulator, outsourcing the hard decisions whilst at the same time setting terms of reference that has created unstainable downward pressure on the second. Subsequent governments, of all flavours, have been content to go along with this deceit accepting no accountability for perpetuating the very regulatory framework that is failing rivers and anything to do with public water. If anyone needs to apologise it is the MPs themselves who have it in their gift to change Ofwat at the stroke of a pen.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout layout--1-column" data-cpeid="w-1688647977618-278" style="color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="column column--1 scale stack" data-cpeid="w-1688647977618-214" style="width: 680px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="divider" data-cpeid="w-1688647977618-224" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="divider_container" style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px;" valign="top" width="100%"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="divider_content-row" style="height: 1px; table-layout: fixed; width: 639.194px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" bgcolor="#5D7639" class="divider_content-cell" height="1" style="background-color: #5d7639; border-bottom-width: 0px; height: 1px; line-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/1101116784221/S.gif" style="display: block; height: 1px; width: 5px;" vspace="0" width="5" /></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout layout--1-column" data-cpeid="w-1688647977618-412" style="color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="column column--1 scale stack" data-cpeid="w-1688647977618-554" style="width: 680px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1688647977618-930" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e2f2f; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #556b34; font-size: 22px; font-weight: bold;">More fishin' films</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;">It seems a great many of you had watched, and enjoyed, </span><span style="font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Mending The Line,</span><span style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;"> the film I wrote about last time. The article prompted a flurry of other recommendations for fishing related films. Here they are, with the health warning that I have not watched all of them in their entirety, so if they are dogs do not shoot the messenger.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1705518471008-044" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e2f2f; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><table align="right" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="image image--float-right scale image--mobile-scale image--mobile-center" data-cpeid="w-1705518685275-704" style="table-layout: fixed;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="image_spacer hide" height="1" style="height: 1px; line-height: 1px; padding: 0px;" valign="top" width="15"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/sys/S.gif" vspace="0" width="15" /></td><td align="right" class="image_container scale stack" style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 0px;" valign=""><img alt="" class="image_content" data-image-content="" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/b34931e7001/f0ddee26-be6a-49b9-b061-8a9e32557e00.jpg?rdr=true" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="200" /></td></tr></tbody></table><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;">The River Why (2010)</span><span style="font-size: 18px;"></span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Starring William Hurt, and the later-to-be-wife of Johnny Depp, Amber Heard and Zach Gifford who plays a young man in a coming-of-age tale of his quest for an elusive rainbow trout, which is a metaphor for his internal search for self-knowledge.</span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">More, and better, fishing scenes than </span><span style="font-size: 18px; font-style: italic;">Mending The Line </span><span style="font-size: 18px;">with the ending wrapped up with a pretty bow. </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVsv1ehgTvA" style="color: blue; font-size: 18px;" target="_blank">Watch here ....</a></p></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1704306137710-876" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e2f2f; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><table align="right" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="image image--float-right scale image--mobile-scale image--mobile-center" data-cpeid="w-1705518875559-545" style="table-layout: fixed;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="image_spacer hide" height="1" style="height: 1px; line-height: 1px; padding: 0px;" valign="top" width="15"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/sys/S.gif" vspace="0" width="15" /></td><td align="right" class="image_container scale stack" style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 0px;" valign=""><img alt="" class="image_content" data-image-content="" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/b34931e7001/d477c009-ac32-41dd-b88e-9bdf85bef69b.jpg?rdr=true" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="200" /></td></tr></tbody></table><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;">Gone Fishin' (1997)</span><span style="font-size: 18px;"> </span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"></span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Somebody, somewhere was serious about this film that cost $53 million to make but grossed just $19m, gaining a miserable 4% approval on the film review website Rotten Tomatoes, with an average score of 2.3/10.</span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">None of that might inspire you to watch this comedy caper with Joe Pesci, Danny Glover, Rosanna Arquette and Willie Nelson as himself so I have linked you to the 10 minute You Tube version. </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSRtNsayuQ4" style="color: blue; font-size: 18px;" target="_blank">Watch here ....</a></p></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1705518960299-239" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e2f2f; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><table align="right" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="image image--float-right scale image--mobile-scale image--mobile-center" data-cpeid="w-1705519023103-778" style="table-layout: fixed;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="image_spacer hide" height="1" style="height: 1px; line-height: 1px; padding: 0px;" valign="top" width="15"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/sys/S.gif" vspace="0" width="15" /></td><td align="right" class="image_container scale stack" style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 0px;" valign=""><img alt="" class="image_content" data-image-content="" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/b34931e7001/5a77aadf-d905-41be-bd0f-a521e1c17942.jpg?rdr=true" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="200" /></td></tr></tbody></table><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;">Pyscho Pike (1992)</span><span style="font-size: 18px;"></span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"></span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">The plot summary reads, toxins in a lake drive a big pike crazy and it suddenly begins to attack and devour cottagers. The one review I found said, “The plot is (of course) ridiculous - but hey - it's a horror story about a deadly pike. Nice locations, and of course, chilling scenes of pike attack - what more could you want from such a production?”</span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">This Canadian film seemed to have been lost to mankind but I unearthed this archive copy of the full 86 minutes. </span><a href="https://archive.org/details/psycho-pike-1992" style="color: blue; font-size: 18px;" target="_blank">Watch here ....</a><span style="font-size: 18px;"></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1705519303104-744" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e2f2f; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><table align="right" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="image image--float-right scale image--mobile-scale image--mobile-center" data-cpeid="w-1705519373627-263" style="table-layout: fixed;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="image_spacer hide" height="1" style="height: 1px; line-height: 1px; padding: 0px;" valign="top" width="15"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/sys/S.gif" vspace="0" width="15" /></td><td align="right" class="image_container scale stack" style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 0px;" valign=""><img alt="" class="image_content" data-image-content="" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/b34931e7001/e4768324-5df1-463c-b9a7-8b3bb70c03d0.jpg?rdr=true" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="200" /></td></tr></tbody></table><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;">Man’s Favourite Sport? (1964)</span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">This has all the sexist tropes of the 1960’s with Rock Hudson, a successful writer of a how-to-fish manual who has never fished, who is inveigled into a fishing competition by his boss who is unaware of his inability. It was a big hit, the 24th highest grossing film of the year, and subsequently has a 70% approval on Rotten Tomatoes. Great songs and score by Henry Mancini.</span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span class="ql-cursor"></span>But goodness, it is of its time, so if you watch it with a teenager prepare them with a trigger warning. The opening credits give you a good idea why the film title has a question mark. </span><a href="https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8mjn7q" style="color: blue; font-size: 18px;" target="_blank">Watch here .....</a></p></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="divider" data-cpeid="w-1705520290669-137" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="divider_container content-padding-horizontal" style="padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top" width="100%"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="divider_content-row" style="height: 1px; table-layout: fixed; width: 620px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" bgcolor="#5D7639" class="divider_content-cell" height="1" style="background-color: #5d7639; border-bottom-width: 0px; height: 1px; line-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/1101116784221/S.gif" style="display: block; height: 1px; width: 5px;" vspace="0" width="5" /></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1694699884091-798" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e2f2f; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #556b34; font-size: 22px; font-weight: bold;">Beavers to the rescue!</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;">Is there anything a beaver cannot do? I’d swear that the pro-beaver lobby push out a news release every day eulogising as to the benefits for whatever the hot topic is on that given day. I am confident we will shortly see them donning UN peace keeper berets in the Middle East. Needless to say the cure all solution to the recent floods is, you’ve guessed it, more beavers!</span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Aside from the unassailable logic that it is constrictions to the free flow of water such as bridges, overly narrowed water courses or dams that causes water to back up to create flooding you have to wonder how the good citizens of the Somerset Levels will regard the arrival of these invasive rodents. </span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout layout--1-column" data-cpeid="w-1701794792533-331" style="color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="column column--1 scale stack" data-cpeid="w-1701794792595-680" style="width: 680px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="image image--padding-vertical image--mobile-scale image--mobile-center" data-cpeid="w-1701794792650-827" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="image_container content-padding-horizontal" style="padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><img alt="" class="image_content" data-image-content="" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/b34931e7001/25f0f551-d1e9-49d3-bd64-a492ed736c88.jpg?rdr=true" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="620" /></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout layout--1-column" data-cpeid="w-1701789961625-645" style="color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="column column--1 scale stack" data-cpeid="w-1701789961680-511" style="width: 680px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1701789961730-591" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e2f2f; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Now, despite what you will read, flooding and extreme weather events are no recent phenomena. </span><a href="https://fishingbreaks.co.uk/pdf/Spectator%20August%202021%20-%20Rain.pdf" style="color: blue; font-size: 18px;" target="_blank">Read my article in The Spectator</a><span style="font-size: 18px;">. The flooding we see has little to do with climate change or the lack of beavers; even 2023, a very wet year, has only seen annual rainfall increase from an average of 32 inches to 41 inches, 27% above the norm. The simple fact is that for 4,000 plus years we have managed our rivers with remarkable aptitude, aware of the chaos of which Mother Nature is capable. However, in the post-war construction boom we have pressed into service land entirely unsuited for housing and created a built landscape that exacerbates the impact of rain water that, in centuries past, would have dissipated unremarked.</span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">As you well know I am no fan of the Environment Agency but how can anyone seriously suggest that they, or any of our forefathers, would not have worked out by now that a few random wood and mud dams to be our saviours instead of the £1.1 billion the EA spent in 2021? They did not work it out because it is patently untrue.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout layout--1-column" data-cpeid="w-1700324877561-125" style="color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="column column--1 scale stack" data-cpeid="w-1700324877619-509" style="width: 680px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="divider" data-cpeid="w-1700324877671-448" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="divider_container content-padding-horizontal" style="padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top" width="100%"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="divider_content-row" style="height: 1px; table-layout: fixed; width: 620px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" bgcolor="#5D7639" class="divider_content-cell" height="1" style="background-color: #5d7639; border-bottom-width: 0px; height: 1px; line-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/1101116784221/S.gif" style="display: block; height: 1px; width: 5px;" vspace="0" width="5" /></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout-margin" data-cpeid="w-1688647977619-327" style="color: black; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="layout-margin_cell" style="padding: 15px 30px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout-border layout-border--solid" data-cpeid="w-1688647977619-950" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" bgcolor="#CCCCCC" class="layout-border_cell" style="background-color: #cccccc; padding: 2px;" valign="top"><table bgcolor="#ffffff" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout layout--article layout--1-column" data-cpeid="w-1688647977619-142" style="background-color: white; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="column column--1 scale stack" data-cpeid="w-1688647977619-468" style="width: 616px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--articleHeading text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1688647977618-779" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #efad00; display: block; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 20px;" valign="top"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #556b34; font-size: 22px;">Quiz</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--article text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1688647977618-146" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e2f2f; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 20px;" valign="top"><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;">The normal random collection of questions inspired by the date, events or topics in the Newsletter. It is just for fun with answers at the bottom of the page.</span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">1) On this day in 1363 Edward III passed the Sumptuary Laws. Was does sumptuary mean?</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">2) Bill Clinton took Presidential office in what year?</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">3) Which English rock star, more famous for </span><span style="font-size: 18px; font-style: italic;">Driving Home for Christmas</span><span style="font-size: 18px;">, released </span><span style="font-size: 18px; font-style: italic;">Gone Fishing </span><span style="font-size: 18px;">in 1991?</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="image image--padding-vertical image--mobile-scale image--mobile-center" data-cpeid="w-1705527209380-618" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="image_container content-padding-horizontal" style="padding: 10px 20px;" valign="top"><a data-trackable="true" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wt0nFwtQZGc" target="_blank"><img alt="" class="image_content" data-image-content="" src="https://web-extract.constantcontact.com/v1/thumbnail?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FWt0nFwtQZGc%2Fhqdefault.jpg" style="display: block; 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padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"></span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Best wishes,</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout layout--1-column" data-cpeid="w-1688647977619-681" style="color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="column column--1 scale stack" data-cpeid="w-1688647977619-772" style="width: 680px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="image image--mobile-scale image--mobile-center" data-cpeid="w-1688647977619-556" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="image_container content-padding-horizontal" style="padding-left: 30px; padding-right: 30px;" valign="top"><a data-trackable="true" href="https://fishingbreaks.co.uk/" target="_blank"><img alt="" class="image_content" data-image-content="" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/b34931e7001/567b2a15-d77d-4cd2-919c-767ea3b447d3.jpg?rdr=true" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="167" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout layout--1-column" data-cpeid="w-1688647977619-164" style="color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="column column--1 scale stack" data-cpeid="w-1688647977619-212" style="width: 680px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1688647977619-031" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e2f2f; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><div><span style="color: black;">Simon Cooper </span><a href="mailto:simon@fishingbreaks.co.uk" style="color: white; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">simon@fishingbreaks.co.uk</a></div><div><span style="color: black;">Founder & Managing Director</span><a href="http://www.fishingbreaks.co.uk/" style="color: white; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">www.fishingbreaks.co.uk</a></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table bgcolor="#5D7639" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout layout--1-column" data-cpeid="w-1688647977619-105" style="background-color: #5d7639; color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="column column--1 scale stack" data-cpeid="w-1688647977619-372" style="width: 680px;" valign="top"><div class="spacer" data-cpeid="w-1688647977619-777" style="height: 10px; line-height: 10px;"> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout layout--1-column" data-cpeid="w-1688647977619-930" style="color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="column column--1 scale stack" data-cpeid="w-1688647977619-002" style="width: 680px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1688647977619-353" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e2f2f; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Quiz answers:</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">1) Laws that limit private expenditure on food and personal items.</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">2) 1993</p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">3) Chris Rea</p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table>Life of a Chalkstreamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00537310318259829331noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-152819559311493256.post-21078089585451293152024-01-06T12:21:00.003+00:002024-01-06T12:21:51.429+00:00A Statue to Piscator<p> </p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout layout--1-column" data-cpeid="w-1688652185931-927" style="color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="column column--1 scale stack" data-cpeid="w-1688652185981-841" style="width: 680px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1688652186026-334" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e2f2f; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;">Dear <span data-id="firstName">Simon</span>,</span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;">I read this terrific review in </span><span style="font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">The Spectator</span><span style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;"> for a newly published book </span><span style="font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">More Than A Game: A History of How Sport Made Britain</span><span style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;"> by David Horspool, a journalist who covers history, archaeology and sport. I am probably knackering any chance of any future good review for any future book of mine in the </span><span style="font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Times Literary Supplement</span><span style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;"> of which Horspool is an editor, by saying his book is a hard read.</span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">To start with the woke-police have clearly got to the marketing, the blurb on the fly leaf trying to whip up the angry furies of race, class, empire and wealth in the evolution of British sport. It is also not, as I discovered, a book to read cover to cover. It is just a bit too detailed, with the history often too granular, perhaps reflecting the inner archaeologist of Horspool. But all that aside if you have an interest in horse racing, cricket, boxing, rugby, golf, tennis, cycling or football each has a dedicated chapter with, more or less, equal coverage given to each.</span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Obviously, the omission of angling is a clear black mark against Horspool (!) though I suspect he might argue ours a pastime rather than a sport though I think in return that we could readily counter argue that fishing, which predates each and every one of those listed above, has a cultural importance within the British sporting tradition.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout layout--1-column" data-cpeid="w-1690984991297-991" style="color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="column column--1 scale stack" data-cpeid="w-1690984991352-285" style="width: 680px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="image image--padding-vertical image--mobile-scale image--mobile-center" data-cpeid="w-1690984991401-477" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="image_container content-padding-horizontal" style="padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><img alt="" class="image_content" data-image-content="" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/b34931e7001/1e8d2db8-e58c-46fa-9691-256deba071d8.jpg?rdr=true" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="598" /></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1701791120526-816" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e2f2f; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><p align="center" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Winchester Cathedral</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout layout--1-column" data-cpeid="w-1688647977617-393" style="color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="column column--1 scale stack" data-cpeid="w-1688647977617-322" style="width: 680px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1688647977617-383" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e2f2f; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">In the tennis section I came across a reference to the Sporting Statues Project which, in case you were unaware, lists all 324 public sculptures in display in Britain of sportsmen, sportswomen and animals (Frankel has four listings) dating from 500BC (the discus thrower in British Museum in case you ask) up to statues due to be unveiled next year. Football, unsurprisingly, dominates with 131 sculptures with nearly every other sport represented, to a greater or lesser degree except you will not be surprised, anything for angling. Which had me thinking, if we were to have a statue, who or what should it be of?</span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Halford in his deckchair outside the Oakley Hut? Skues scowling into the Itchen at a trout that had the temerity to ignore his nymph. Walton in his 17th century garb studying to be quiet? Frank Sawyer with his bare hook? A leaping salmon? Dame Julia Berners in her nun outfit? Glaucus the Greek God of fishing? Mr Crabtree? The late Queen Mother, probably the most prolific royal catcher of salmon? Or maybe we go all reflective with the unknown angler, a hunched figure on a stool with a rod and float lost in the perfect reverie that is sometimes fishing? Of course, choosing the subject matter would almost be the easy bit compared to choosing the location. Nowhere comes easily to my mind.</span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">However, us anglers do not have to feel too hard done by because we have what few disciplines have, namely a chapel to our sport. And not just in any minor religious building but rather one in a grand and revered cathedral, the resting place of kings and once the crowning capital of Britain. I am, of course, talking of the Izaak Walton chapel in Winchester Cathedral, more properly known as the Chapel of St John & Fishermen Apostles but also sometimes going by the name the Silkstede Chapel.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="image image--padding-vertical image--mobile-scale image--mobile-center" data-cpeid="w-1698276940345-626" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="image_container content-padding-horizontal" style="padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><img alt="" class="image_content" data-image-content="" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/b34931e7001/b238bcc8-8e76-4a6c-ae54-3885df6d31de.jpg?rdr=true" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="612" /></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout layout--1-column" data-cpeid="w-1699450113138-618" style="color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="column column--1 scale stack" data-cpeid="w-1699450113230-632" style="width: 680px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1699450113313-128" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e2f2f; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><p align="center" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;">l: Izaak Walton River Itchen r: Izaak Walton & Charles Cotton River Dove.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout layout--1-column" data-cpeid="w-1701789760837-648" style="color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="column column--1 scale stack" data-cpeid="w-1701789760896-157" style="width: 680px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1701789760947-648" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e2f2f; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">It is hard to ascertain how, in 1683, Walton came to be buried in Winchester Cathedral. Yes, </span><span style="font-size: 18px; font-style: italic;">The</span><span style="font-size: 18px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 18px; font-style: italic;">Compleat Angler</span><span style="font-size: 18px;"> was a best seller of its time but its fame as a seminal work is largely posthumous. He was not a cleric and only came to live in Hampshire in his latter years, having spent most of his life in Staffordshire and London, his early profession being that of an ironmonger. It seems his final resting place was determined by family connections – his son-in-law was the Canon of Winchester Cathedral at the time of his death at the pretty remarkable 90 years of age.</span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"></span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">The place of the chapel in piscatorial lore was most likely cemented when, in 1914, a group of British and American fly fishers paid for the current stained glass window that features, in addition to the four Apostles, details showing Walton in quiet contemplation by the River Itchen with St Catherine’s Hill in the background plus Walton and Cotton communing at Beresford Dale in Derbyshire, where the pair built the Fishing Temple beside the River Dove.</span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;">Postscript</span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">I was doing a final fact check for this article when, lo and behold, I came across a statue of none other than Izaak Walton by the sculptor Peter Walker that was erected beside the River Sow in Walton’s native Stafford in 2000.</span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">The original piece featured Walton holding a rod but that appears to have disappeared if you visit today. I feel a stiff email coming on to Sheffield University, custodians of the Sporting Statues Project.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="image image--padding-vertical image--mobile-scale image--mobile-center" data-cpeid="w-1703151880569-622" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="image_container content-padding-horizontal" style="padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><img alt="" class="image_content" data-image-content="" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/b34931e7001/59b4350d-1fe2-40cc-a894-1049f89a44a0.jpg?rdr=true" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="620" /></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1703152658338-082" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e2f2f; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><p align="center" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Izaak Walton aka Piscator at home on the banks of the River Sow</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout layout--1-column" data-cpeid="w-1688647977618-278" style="color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="column column--1 scale stack" data-cpeid="w-1688647977618-214" style="width: 680px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="divider" data-cpeid="w-1688647977618-224" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="divider_container" style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px;" valign="top" width="100%"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="divider_content-row" style="height: 1px; table-layout: fixed; width: 639.194px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" bgcolor="#5D7639" class="divider_content-cell" height="1" style="background-color: #5d7639; border-bottom-width: 0px; height: 1px; line-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/1101116784221/S.gif" style="display: block; height: 1px; width: 5px;" vspace="0" width="5" /></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout layout--1-column" data-cpeid="w-1688647977618-412" style="color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="column column--1 scale stack" data-cpeid="w-1688647977618-554" style="width: 680px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1688647977618-930" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e2f2f; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #556b34; font-size: 22px; font-weight: bold;">Office hours, 2024 bookings & Gift voucher redemptions</span></p><p align="center" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;">The office is closed today and for all the regular holiday days over the coming week or so. However, Jamie will be here 9am-5pm on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday (December 27/28/29) to answer your queries and I will answer emails, on an irregular basis, in between.</span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">The 2024 diaries will go online for day rod and all other bookings on 27 December. The only exceptions are Broadlands House, Fisherton de la Mere, Shawford Park and Wrackleford Estate which will remain on request until we have the diaries in mid-January.</span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">To check dates and book </span><a href="https://www.fishingbreaks.co.uk/onlinebk/calendarsearch.php" style="color: blue; font-size: 18px;" target="_blank">use this link …….. </a><span style="font-size: 18px;">You may, of course, email and phone as we haven’t entirely retreated behind an internet wall.</span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">For online gift voucher redemption you will need your Voucher number, a five digit number and also your Account number, a combination of letters and numbers, both of which are located on the bottom righthand side of the voucher. </span><a href="https://www.fishinggiftvouchers.co.uk/use.htm" style="color: blue; font-size: 18px;" target="_blank">Use this link …….</a></p></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="image image--padding-vertical image--mobile-scale image--mobile-center" data-cpeid="w-1697107364130-787" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="image_container content-padding-horizontal" style="padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><img alt="" class="image_content" data-image-content="" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/b34931e7001/ab45ea70-36ec-466e-b312-e517f2d426d7.jpg?rdr=true" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="620" /></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1703152811251-828" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e2f2f; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><p align="center" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://fishingbreaks.co.uk/pricelist.pdf" style="color: blue; font-style: italic;" target="_blank">View or print 2024 price list</a></p></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="divider" data-cpeid="w-1701798638600-738" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="divider_container content-padding-horizontal" style="padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top" width="100%"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="divider_content-row" style="height: 1px; table-layout: fixed; width: 620px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" bgcolor="#5D7639" class="divider_content-cell" height="1" style="background-color: #5d7639; border-bottom-width: 0px; height: 1px; line-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/1101116784221/S.gif" style="display: block; height: 1px; width: 5px;" vspace="0" width="5" /></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1694699884091-798" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e2f2f; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #556b34; font-size: 22px; font-weight: bold;">Merry Christmas</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;">Well, that is almost it for another year. From all of us at Fishing Breaks, plus the fish as well, all the very best for a fun Christmas. We really appreciate your custom and friendship so hope, wherever you are and wherever you fish, all your 2024 river wishes may come true.</span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">I sign off with this Private Eye Christmas card kindly sent to me; I think it sums the state of our rivers in a way that only a cartoonist could capture.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout layout--1-column" data-cpeid="w-1701794792533-331" style="color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="column column--1 scale stack" data-cpeid="w-1701794792595-680" style="width: 680px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="image image--padding-vertical image--mobile-scale image--mobile-center" data-cpeid="w-1701794792650-827" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="image_container content-padding-horizontal" style="padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><img alt="" class="image_content" data-image-content="" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/b34931e7001/97a1a03d-d88d-4182-bc80-3ab71a63e22f.jpg?rdr=true" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="620" /></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout layout--1-column" data-cpeid="w-1700324877561-125" style="color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="column column--1 scale stack" data-cpeid="w-1700324877619-509" style="width: 680px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="divider" data-cpeid="w-1700324877671-448" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="divider_container content-padding-horizontal" style="padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top" width="100%"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="divider_content-row" style="height: 1px; table-layout: fixed; width: 620px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" bgcolor="#5D7639" class="divider_content-cell" height="1" style="background-color: #5d7639; border-bottom-width: 0px; height: 1px; line-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/1101116784221/S.gif" style="display: block; height: 1px; width: 5px;" vspace="0" width="5" /></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout-margin" data-cpeid="w-1688647977619-327" style="color: black; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="layout-margin_cell" style="padding: 15px 30px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout-border layout-border--solid" data-cpeid="w-1688647977619-950" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" bgcolor="#CCCCCC" class="layout-border_cell" style="background-color: #cccccc; padding: 2px;" valign="top"><table bgcolor="#ffffff" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout layout--article layout--1-column" data-cpeid="w-1688647977619-142" style="background-color: white; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="column column--1 scale stack" data-cpeid="w-1688647977619-468" style="width: 616px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--articleHeading text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1688647977618-779" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #efad00; display: block; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 20px;" valign="top"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #556b34; font-size: 22px;">Quiz</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--article text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1688647977618-146" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e2f2f; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 20px;" valign="top"><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;">The normal random collection of questions inspired by the date, events or topics in the Newsletter. It is just for fun with answers at the bottom of the page.</span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">1)</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 18px;">Private Eye magazine was first published in a) 1951 b) 1961 or c) 1971?</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">2)</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 18px;">If you had christougenniatikophobia what would you be scared of?</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">3)</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 18px;">Who wrote or sang White Christmas for the 1942 musical Holiday Inn?</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="image image--padding-vertical image--mobile-scale image--mobile-center" data-cpeid="w-1703156161690-103" style="table-layout: fixed; 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color: #2e2f2f; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Have a great break and I'll be back shortly after Christmas with 2023 in photos.</span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"></span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Best wishes,</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout layout--1-column" data-cpeid="w-1688647977619-681" style="color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="column column--1 scale stack" data-cpeid="w-1688647977619-772" style="width: 680px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="image image--mobile-scale image--mobile-center" data-cpeid="w-1688647977619-556" style="table-layout: fixed; 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color: #2e2f2f; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><div><span style="color: black;">Simon Cooper </span><a href="mailto:simon@fishingbreaks.co.uk" style="color: white; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">simon@fishingbreaks.co.uk</a></div><div><span style="color: black;">Founder & Managing Director</span><a href="http://www.fishingbreaks.co.uk/" style="color: white; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">www.fishingbreaks.co.uk</a></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table bgcolor="#5D7639" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout layout--1-column" data-cpeid="w-1688647977619-105" style="background-color: #5d7639; color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="column column--1 scale stack" data-cpeid="w-1688647977619-372" style="width: 680px;" valign="top"><div class="spacer" data-cpeid="w-1688647977619-777" style="height: 10px; line-height: 10px;"> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout layout--1-column" data-cpeid="w-1688647977619-930" style="color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="column column--1 scale stack" data-cpeid="w-1688647977619-002" style="width: 680px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1688647977619-353" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e2f2f; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Quiz answers:</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">1)<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 9px;"> </span>1961</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">2)<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 9px;"> </span>Christmas</p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">3)<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 9px;"> </span>Irving Berlin wrote the song and Bing Crosby sung it, for which they won an Oscar.</p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table>Life of a Chalkstreamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00537310318259829331noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-152819559311493256.post-47570878998553505512024-01-06T12:20:00.001+00:002024-01-06T12:20:20.602+00:002023 in Photos<p> </p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout layout--1-column" data-cpeid="w-1688652185931-927" style="color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="column column--1 scale stack" data-cpeid="w-1688652185981-841" style="width: 680px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1688652186026-334" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e2f2f; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><b>Greetings!</b></span></p><p align="justify" style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;">Another year nearly over. Another chalkstream season done. After the drought of ’22 we have had the deluge of ’23. What will ’24 bring?</span></p><p align="justify" style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">We will all, of course, often flee to the splendid isolation of the riverbank in a year that will undoubtedly be dominated by the General Election. For those who love rivers this will be an unusual one because ‘ownership’ of the sewage issue will undoubtedly be up for grabs. I am not confident that manifesto pledges and political point scoring will immediately solve the many and manifold issues that impact on our rivers, the natural beauty of our nation and the health of the countryside. However, in the medium to long term the sheer fact that this has become a mainstream issue gives some hope that problems will be addressed and solutions found.</span></p><p align="justify" style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">The critical moment will likely come in April when regulator Ofwat approves (or not) a 31% increase in consumer water and sewerage charges for 2025-30. The challenge, at this point, will be to convince the public and politicians in this, an election year, that the increase (roughly £3 a week for every home) will not go to line the pockets of water company owners and that the money will be effectively spent.</span></p><p align="justify" style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">We will see. But in the meantime, the streams will roll, the flies will hatch and the trout will rise. Because, for all the travails, chalkstreams remain an amazing refuge from everyday life. A micro universe of everything that is astonishing about Mother Nature.</span></p><p align="justify" style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">All the very best for 2024.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout layout--1-column" data-cpeid="w-1703414745308-022" style="color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="column column--1 scale stack" data-cpeid="w-1703414745365-039" style="width: 680px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="divider" data-cpeid="w-1703414745417-814" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="divider_container content-padding-horizontal" style="padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top" width="100%"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="divider_content-row" style="height: 1px; 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color: #2e2f2f; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><p align="center" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;">January</span></p><p align="center" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">A hard, frosty morning on Inkpen Beacon from which you can see the chalkstream valleys of Berkshire, Hampshire and Wiltshire to the north, south and west.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout layout--1-column" data-cpeid="w-1690984991297-991" style="color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="column column--1 scale stack" data-cpeid="w-1690984991352-285" style="width: 680px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="image image--padding-vertical image--mobile-scale image--mobile-center" data-cpeid="w-1690984991401-477" style="table-layout: fixed; 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height: 1px; width: 5px;" vspace="0" width="5" /></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1703413558141-141" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e2f2f; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><p align="center" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;">February</span></p><p align="center" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">One of many talks I was to give on the history, delights and current state of the English chalkstreams.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="image image--padding-vertical image--mobile-scale image--mobile-center" data-cpeid="w-1703413580675-564" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="image_container content-padding-horizontal" style="padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><img alt="" class="image_content" data-image-content="" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/b34931e7001/43b2041a-f1e5-414d-8843-75a41d86e03c.jpg?rdr=true" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="616" /></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="divider" data-cpeid="w-1703414736044-783" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="divider_container content-padding-horizontal" style="padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top" width="100%"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="divider_content-row" style="height: 1px; table-layout: fixed; width: 620px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" bgcolor="#5D7639" class="divider_content-cell" height="1" style="background-color: #5d7639; border-bottom-width: 0px; height: 1px; line-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/1101116784221/S.gif" style="display: block; height: 1px; width: 5px;" vspace="0" width="5" /></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1701791120526-816" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e2f2f; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><p align="center" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;">March</span></p><p align="center" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Martin Aris, river keeper of some 50 years, at the launch of his biography.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout layout--1-column" data-cpeid="w-1703413416567-795" style="color: black; 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table-layout: fixed; width: 620px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" bgcolor="#5D7639" class="divider_content-cell" height="1" style="background-color: #5d7639; border-bottom-width: 0px; height: 1px; line-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/1101116784221/S.gif" style="display: block; height: 1px; width: 5px;" vspace="0" width="5" /></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1703413592845-135" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e2f2f; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><p align="center" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;">April</span></p><p align="center" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Cartoonist Peter Brookes of </span><span style="font-size: 18px; font-style: italic;">The Daily Telegraph</span><span style="font-size: 18px;"> neatly captures the zeitgeist</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout layout--1-column" data-cpeid="w-1703413673227-482" style="color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="column column--1 scale stack" data-cpeid="w-1703413673288-265" style="width: 680px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="image image--padding-vertical image--mobile-scale image--mobile-center" data-cpeid="w-1703413673342-335" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="image_container content-padding-horizontal" style="padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><img alt="" class="image_content" data-image-content="" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/b34931e7001/5829c30e-607f-4476-8e11-330fa95fa55b.jpg?rdr=true" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="576" /></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="divider" data-cpeid="w-1703413981972-392" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="divider_container content-padding-horizontal" style="padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top" width="100%"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="divider_content-row" style="height: 1px; table-layout: fixed; width: 620px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" bgcolor="#5D7639" class="divider_content-cell" height="1" style="background-color: #5d7639; border-bottom-width: 0px; height: 1px; line-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/1101116784221/S.gif" style="display: block; height: 1px; width: 5px;" vspace="0" width="5" /></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1703413710482-235" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e2f2f; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><p align="center" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;">May</span></p><p align="center" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">The River Kennet in full bloom as the hawthorn flower and fly came late, but both in super abundance</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout layout--1-column" data-cpeid="w-1688647977617-393" style="color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="column column--1 scale stack" data-cpeid="w-1688647977617-322" style="width: 680px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="image image--padding-vertical image--mobile-scale image--mobile-center" data-cpeid="w-1698276940345-626" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="image_container content-padding-horizontal" style="padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><img alt="" class="image_content" data-image-content="" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/b34931e7001/80437eeb-7e93-4886-a587-b093a85a47b2.jpg?rdr=true" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="612" /></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="divider" data-cpeid="w-1703414627847-284" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="divider_container content-padding-horizontal" style="padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top" width="100%"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="divider_content-row" style="height: 1px; table-layout: fixed; width: 620px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" bgcolor="#5D7639" class="divider_content-cell" height="1" style="background-color: #5d7639; border-bottom-width: 0px; height: 1px; line-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/1101116784221/S.gif" style="display: block; height: 1px; width: 5px;" vspace="0" width="5" /></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1703414603615-869" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e2f2f; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><p align="center" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;">June</span></p><p align="center" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">My first (and only) Danish brown trout on what may, or may not be, a Danish chalkstream.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="image image--padding-vertical image--mobile-scale image--mobile-center" data-cpeid="w-1703414607827-584" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="image_container content-padding-horizontal" style="padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><img alt="" class="image_content" data-image-content="" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/b34931e7001/0b85b004-665b-476e-a6ec-df8fa8899a35.jpg?rdr=true" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="596" /></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="image image--padding-vertical image--mobile-scale image--mobile-center" data-cpeid="w-1703415266947-889" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="image_container content-padding-horizontal" style="padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><img alt="" class="image_content" data-image-content="" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/b34931e7001/6cc7f67b-a0a0-40be-a6ab-9f910f1e8ac0.jpg?rdr=true" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="598" /></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="divider" data-cpeid="w-1703414633302-127" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="divider_container content-padding-horizontal" style="padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top" width="100%"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="divider_content-row" style="height: 1px; table-layout: fixed; width: 620px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" bgcolor="#5D7639" class="divider_content-cell" height="1" style="background-color: #5d7639; border-bottom-width: 0px; height: 1px; line-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/1101116784221/S.gif" style="display: block; height: 1px; width: 5px;" vspace="0" width="5" /></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1703414640809-512" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e2f2f; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><p align="center" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;">July</span></p><p align="center" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Bullington Manor captured from the air, the many dead or dying ash trees plaintive fingers pointing upwards from the woodland</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="image image--padding-vertical image--mobile-scale image--mobile-center" data-cpeid="w-1703414675570-939" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="image_container content-padding-horizontal" style="padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><img alt="" class="image_content" data-image-content="" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/b34931e7001/9c3076b0-0915-46db-a568-20a4d146b7bb.jpg?rdr=true" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="590" /></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="divider" data-cpeid="w-1703414693448-491" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="divider_container content-padding-horizontal" style="padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top" width="100%"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="divider_content-row" style="height: 1px; table-layout: fixed; width: 620px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" bgcolor="#5D7639" class="divider_content-cell" height="1" style="background-color: #5d7639; border-bottom-width: 0px; height: 1px; line-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/1101116784221/S.gif" style="display: block; height: 1px; width: 5px;" vspace="0" width="5" /></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1703414682333-635" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e2f2f; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><p align="center" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;">August</span></p><p align="center" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">How many river keepers does it take to change an oak board?</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="image image--padding-vertical image--mobile-scale image--mobile-center" data-cpeid="w-1703414685734-416" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="image_container content-padding-horizontal" style="padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><img alt="" class="image_content" data-image-content="" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/b34931e7001/923e7d89-3dc9-4fdf-afa3-9ad07b1c4474.jpg?rdr=true" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="589" /></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="divider" data-cpeid="w-1703414224571-404" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="divider_container content-padding-horizontal" style="padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top" width="100%"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="divider_content-row" style="height: 1px; table-layout: fixed; width: 620px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" bgcolor="#5D7639" class="divider_content-cell" height="1" style="background-color: #5d7639; border-bottom-width: 0px; height: 1px; line-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/1101116784221/S.gif" style="display: block; height: 1px; width: 5px;" vspace="0" width="5" /></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1703414169905-633" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e2f2f; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><p align="center" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;">September</span></p><p align="center" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">You never, and should never, forget that first fish.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="image image--padding-vertical image--mobile-scale image--mobile-center" data-cpeid="w-1703414220910-163" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="image_container content-padding-horizontal" style="padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><img alt="" class="image_content" data-image-content="" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/b34931e7001/ad13b923-7a78-494a-8dc0-68048fbf480b.jpg?rdr=true" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="587" /></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="image image--padding-vertical image--mobile-scale image--mobile-center" data-cpeid="w-1703414525312-487" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="image_container content-padding-horizontal" style="padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><img alt="" class="image_content" data-image-content="" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/b34931e7001/2e072509-146a-4ed8-be11-5478e652d924.jpg?rdr=true" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="580" /></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="divider" data-cpeid="w-1703414229787-214" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="divider_container content-padding-horizontal" style="padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top" width="100%"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="divider_content-row" style="height: 1px; table-layout: fixed; width: 620px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" bgcolor="#5D7639" class="divider_content-cell" height="1" style="background-color: #5d7639; border-bottom-width: 0px; height: 1px; line-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/1101116784221/S.gif" style="display: block; height: 1px; width: 5px;" vspace="0" width="5" /></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1703414103748-318" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e2f2f; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><p align="center" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;">October</span></p><p align="center" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">The first hues of autumn at Kimbridge on the River Test</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="image image--padding-vertical image--mobile-scale image--mobile-center" data-cpeid="w-1703414162160-143" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="image_container content-padding-horizontal" style="padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><img alt="" class="image_content" data-image-content="" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/b34931e7001/5eda003d-cfad-4705-b010-53370d4d5db0.jpg?rdr=true" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="571" /></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="divider" data-cpeid="w-1703413989004-986" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="divider_container content-padding-horizontal" style="padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top" width="100%"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="divider_content-row" style="height: 1px; 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color: #2e2f2f; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><p align="center" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">November</span></p><p align="center" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic;">John Reeves, river keeper on the Coln in Gloucestershire announces his retirement after over 60 years on the same river</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="image image--padding-vertical image--mobile-scale image--mobile-center" data-cpeid="w-1703413885824-578" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="image_container content-padding-horizontal" style="padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><img alt="" class="image_content" data-image-content="" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/b34931e7001/47580372-8db7-4f1d-87f4-b8cbd33209a0.jpg?rdr=true" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="595" /></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout layout--1-column" data-cpeid="w-1703414722006-858" style="color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="column column--1 scale stack" data-cpeid="w-1703414722068-512" style="width: 680px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="divider" data-cpeid="w-1703414722125-257" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="divider_container content-padding-horizontal" style="padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top" width="100%"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="divider_content-row" style="height: 1px; table-layout: fixed; width: 620px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" bgcolor="#5D7639" class="divider_content-cell" height="1" style="background-color: #5d7639; border-bottom-width: 0px; height: 1px; line-height: 1px; 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It will ultimately be fruitless but they seem to be having fun.</span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout layout--1-column" data-cpeid="w-1688647977618-375" style="color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="column column--1 scale stack" data-cpeid="w-1688647977618-760" style="width: 680px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="image image--padding-vertical image--mobile-scale image--mobile-center" data-cpeid="w-1698277428571-668" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="image_container content-padding-horizontal" style="padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><img alt="" class="image_content" data-image-content="" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/b34931e7001/c8017915-d70a-46e6-b607-b2503406b1b3.jpg?rdr=true" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="620" /></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout layout--1-column" data-cpeid="w-1700324877561-125" style="color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="column column--1 scale stack" data-cpeid="w-1700324877619-509" style="width: 680px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="divider" data-cpeid="w-1700324877671-448" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="divider_container content-padding-horizontal" style="padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top" width="100%"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="divider_content-row" style="height: 1px; table-layout: fixed; width: 620px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" bgcolor="#5D7639" class="divider_content-cell" height="1" style="background-color: #5d7639; border-bottom-width: 0px; height: 1px; line-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/1101116784221/S.gif" style="display: block; height: 1px; width: 5px;" vspace="0" width="5" /></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout-margin" data-cpeid="w-1688647977619-327" style="color: black; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="layout-margin_cell" style="padding: 15px 30px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout-border layout-border--solid" data-cpeid="w-1688647977619-950" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" bgcolor="#CCCCCC" class="layout-border_cell" style="background-color: #cccccc; padding: 2px;" valign="top"><table bgcolor="#ffffff" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout layout--article layout--1-column" data-cpeid="w-1688647977619-142" style="background-color: white; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="column column--1 scale stack" data-cpeid="w-1688647977619-468" style="width: 616px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--articleHeading text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1688647977618-779" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #efad00; display: block; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 20px;" valign="top"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #556b34; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 22px;">2024 bookings open</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--article text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1688647977618-146" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e2f2f; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 20px;" valign="top"><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;">The online diaries are now fully open for 2024 day rods, courses, cottages, huts, camps and all we have to offer. Here are a few useful links to search around the site:</span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><li style="font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.fishingbreaks.co.uk/onlinebk/calendarsearch.php" style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">Day rods</a> – <span style="color: black;">use this link to search by date</span></li></ul><p align="justify" class="indent--1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><li style="font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://fishingbreaks.co.uk/flyfishing.htm" style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">All rivers</a> – <span style="color: black;">use this to search by river and/or beat</span></li></ul><p align="justify" class="indent--1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><li style="font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://fishingbreaks.co.uk/beatcomparison/?orderBy=wading" style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">Compare the beats</a> – <span style="color: black;">use this link to search by any variable e.g. % wild or whether you can take your dog</span></li></ul><p align="justify" class="indent--1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><li style="font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://fishingbreaks.co.uk/flyfishingschool.htm" style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">Courses </a>– <span style="color: black;">use this link to see the full range and dates</span></li></ul><p align="justify" class="indent--1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><li style="font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://fishingbreaks.co.uk/kidsandfamily.htm" style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">Family & kids</a> - <span style="color: black;">use this link to see the full range</span></li></ul><p align="justify" class="indent--1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><li style="font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://fishingbreaks.co.uk/holiday.htm" style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">Fishing cottages</a> – <span style="color: black;">search by cottage</span></li></ul><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">All dates are up and online – I am holding nothing back with the exception of Broadlands House, Fisherton de la Mere, Shawford Park and Wrackleford who are still to confirm diary dates.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="image image--padding-vertical image--mobile-scale image--mobile-center" data-cpeid="w-1703586892598-913" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="image_container content-padding-horizontal" style="padding: 10px 20px;" valign="top"><img alt="" class="image_content" data-image-content="" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/b34931e7001/ab45ea70-36ec-466e-b312-e517f2d426d7.jpg?rdr=true" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="576" /></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1703586969480-433" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e2f2f; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 20px;" valign="top"><p align="center" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://fishingbreaks.co.uk/pricelist.pdf" style="color: blue;" target="_blank">Click to view and print</a></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout layout--1-column" data-cpeid="w-1688647977619-692" style="color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="column column--1 scale stack" data-cpeid="w-1688647977619-183" style="width: 680px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1688647977619-116" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e2f2f; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Enjoy the rest of the holidays.</span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"></span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"></span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Best wishes,</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout layout--1-column" data-cpeid="w-1688647977619-681" style="color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="column column--1 scale stack" data-cpeid="w-1688647977619-772" style="width: 680px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="image image--mobile-scale image--mobile-center" data-cpeid="w-1688647977619-556" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="image_container content-padding-horizontal" style="padding-left: 30px; padding-right: 30px;" valign="top"><a data-trackable="true" href="https://fishingbreaks.co.uk/" target="_blank"><img alt="" class="image_content" data-image-content="" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/b34931e7001/567b2a15-d77d-4cd2-919c-767ea3b447d3.jpg?rdr=true" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="167" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout layout--1-column" data-cpeid="w-1688647977619-164" style="color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="column column--1 scale stack" data-cpeid="w-1688647977619-212" style="width: 680px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1688647977619-031" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e2f2f; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><div><span style="color: black;">Simon Cooper </span><a href="mailto:simon@fishingbreaks.co.uk" style="color: white; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">simon@fishingbreaks.co.uk</a></div><div><span style="color: black;">Founder & Managing Director</span><a href="http://www.fishingbreaks.co.uk/" style="color: white; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">www.fishingbreaks.c</a></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table>Life of a Chalkstreamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00537310318259829331noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-152819559311493256.post-68824672912403506332024-01-06T12:18:00.006+00:002024-01-06T12:18:46.905+00:00Mending the Line. Healing the Soul<p> </p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout layout--1-column" data-cpeid="w-1688652185931-927" style="color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="column column--1 scale stack" data-cpeid="w-1688652185981-841" style="width: 680px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1688652186026-334" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e2f2f; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><b>Greetings!</b></span></p><p align="justify" style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;">Last year, if you recall, we had a poll to establish the best fishing film or TV series of all time. As it turns out </span><span style="font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">A River Runs Through It</span><span style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;">, starring a young Brad Pitt, was the runaway winner but what struck me at the time was how few films there are that feature fishing. But low and behold, we go into a New Year with a feature film, </span><span style="font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Mending the Line</span><span style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;">, that stars Brian Cox of the huge Netflix hit </span><span style="font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Succession</span><span style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;"> and Patricia Heaton who is best known for TV roles in </span><span style="font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">The Middle</span><span style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;"> and </span><span style="font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Everybody Loves Raymond</span><span style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;">.</span></p><p align="justify" style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">The film tells the story of a US marine played by Sinqua Walls who has returned from Afghanistan with PTSD but, despite numerous attempts at recovery in a variety of clinics, is unable to conquer his demons. As a final resort he ends up in a facility in Montana, where his doctor (Heaton) pairs him up with a Vietnam veteran (Cox) who has defeated equal demons from that earlier conflict. Joined by Perry Mattfeld, who plays a young librarian recently widowed with traumas of her own, the three find common cause to chart a new path for their lives through the healing virtues of fly fishing.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout layout--1-column" data-cpeid="w-1690984991297-991" style="color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="column column--1 scale stack" data-cpeid="w-1690984991352-285" style="width: 680px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="image image--padding-vertical image--mobile-scale image--mobile-center" data-cpeid="w-1690984991401-477" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="image_container content-padding-horizontal" style="padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><img alt="" class="image_content" data-image-content="" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/b34931e7001/6d51112a-e90e-4cad-9919-fbd47d3adb61.jpg?rdr=true" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="620" /></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout layout--1-column" data-cpeid="w-1688647977617-393" style="color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="column column--1 scale stack" data-cpeid="w-1688647977617-322" style="width: 680px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1688647977617-383" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e2f2f; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Reviews of the film, made in 2022 but only making its debut on a limited cinema release in July last year were generally positive with accolades for the beauty of Montana and the fishing scenes. I must admit I was a little underwhelmed with both. Why is it that all filmmakers seem to believe the hooking of every fish requires the character to display the strength and fury of Captain Quint in </span><span style="font-size: 18px; font-style: italic;">Jaws</span><span style="font-size: 18px;">? That said, there were some great shots on fish taking bugs, real and artificial, with the librarian the best caster of them all.</span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">The concept of fly fishing for healing damaged minds and bodies is now established across the US, as it is in the UK, the film reflecting I’d say about 15 years of the sport being formally recognised as such. The first I came across it was about a decade ago when we hosted the annual Fly Fishing Film Tour, a selection of shorts made by independent (for that you can often read maverick) filmmakers. I distinctly recall one film called </span><span style="font-size: 18px; font-style: italic;">Healing Waters</span><span style="font-size: 18px;"> which focussed on the guilt of being a survivor when many of your colleagues had perished.</span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Below is the trailer for </span><span style="font-size: 18px; font-style: italic;">Mending The Line</span><span style="font-size: 18px;"> which is currently available on pay-per-view via Google TV, Apple TV, You Tube TV, Amazon Prime and playing on British Airways if you happen to be flying anywhere in the next couple of months.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="image image--padding-vertical image--mobile-scale image--mobile-center" data-cpeid="w-1704306599362-227" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="image_container content-padding-horizontal" style="padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><a data-trackable="true" href="https://youtu.be/tSkv_sEyPSc?si=5eCmiDHvDA4RAeWY" target="_blank"><img alt="" class="image_content" data-image-content="" src="https://web-extract.constantcontact.com/v1/thumbnail?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FtSkv_sEyPSc%2Fhqdefault.jpg" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="601" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout layout--1-column" data-cpeid="w-1699450113138-618" style="color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="column column--1 scale stack" data-cpeid="w-1699450113230-632" style="width: 680px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1699450113313-128" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e2f2f; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><p align="center" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/tSkv_sEyPSc?si=5eCmiDHvDA4RAeWY" style="color: blue; font-style: italic;" target="_blank">Watch the Official Trailer</a></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout layout--1-column" data-cpeid="w-1688647977618-278" style="color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="column column--1 scale stack" data-cpeid="w-1688647977618-214" style="width: 680px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="divider" data-cpeid="w-1688647977618-224" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="divider_container" style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px;" valign="top" width="100%"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="divider_content-row" style="height: 1px; table-layout: fixed; width: 639.194px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" bgcolor="#5D7639" class="divider_content-cell" height="1" style="background-color: #5d7639; border-bottom-width: 0px; height: 1px; line-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/1101116784221/S.gif" style="display: block; height: 1px; width: 5px;" vspace="0" width="5" /></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout layout--1-column" data-cpeid="w-1688647977618-412" style="color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="column column--1 scale stack" data-cpeid="w-1688647977618-554" style="width: 680px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1688647977618-930" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e2f2f; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #556b34; font-size: 22px; font-weight: bold;">Darts is a sport. How about fly fishing?</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;">The success of teenage dart thrower Luke Littler sparked a column in </span><span style="font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">The Telegraph</span><span style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;"> newspaper by their Chief Sports Writer Oliver Brown who was decidedly sniffy about any suggestion that darts might be regarded as a sport.</span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">His contention, it seemed to me, was that because darts required little or no physical prowess it failed his test. Now, I like Brown a lot. He is refreshingly forthright about much of the b******t that is said and written about sport in general but I’m still baffled as to why he has taken against darts with such vehemence.</span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span class="ql-cursor"></span>He talks at length about how Tiger Woods transformed golf because he went to the gym to enable him to hit a golf ball further than any of his contemporaries. Ironically, thanks to a Tour now full of muscle bound long hitters and advances in club and ball technology, the game is seen as less interesting with the authorities looking for ways to turn the clock back. </span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="image image--padding-vertical image--mobile-scale image--mobile-center" data-cpeid="w-1697107364130-787" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="image_container content-padding-horizontal" style="padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><img alt="" class="image_content" data-image-content="" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/b34931e7001/156a820d-ea1b-4c61-b3b2-2eeee03ba3db.jpg?rdr=true" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="620" /></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1704307149854-854" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e2f2f; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><p align="center" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Luke Littler</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1704306137710-876" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e2f2f; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">I’d ask of Brown if Littler trades in his ham and egg omelettes for meals prepared by a sports nutritionist and replaces his X Box for a rowing machine would darts become a sport? And if not a sport, what is it? A pastime? That seems both insulting and inadequate to say that for a pursuit that has millions of TV viewers, hundreds of full time professionals (by contrast how many UK bobsleighers are there?) and a £500,000 purse to the World Champion.</span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Which all begs the question, is fly fishing a sport? Turning to the dictionary for a quick fix definition as an answer will only take you so far. Most dictionaries seem to agree on some sort of physical activity being required but nobody defines a minimum measure of such activity. The concept that a 'sport' should be regulated by a set of rules and competitive is relatively modern; in the 1800's shooting and fishing were regarded as field 'sports' hence the ‘modern use’ reference in the Oxford English Dictionary that defines sport as, ‘An activity involving physical exertion and skill, esp. (particularly in modern use) one regulated a by set of rules or customs in which an individual or team competes against another or others.’</span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #474747; font-size: 18px;">But more recently the definition has been loosened elsewhere, to ‘include all forms of physical activity which, through casual or organised participation, aimed at expressing or improving physical fitness and mental wellbeing, forming social relationships or obtaining results in competition at all levels</span><span style="font-size: 18px;">.’</span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #474747; font-size: 18px;">So, is fly fishing a sport? I think so. It has structure. It has a loose collection of rules or, if you prefer, customs. It elevates and challenges. It defines lives and relationships. It might not be competitive in the traditional scoreboard sense but it does pit man against the fickleness of Mother Nature and her inhabitants.</span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #474747; font-size: 18px;">But most of all, as the famous golfer Bobby Jones said, ‘Competitive sports are played mainly on a five-and-a-half inch court, the space between your ears.’</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="divider" data-cpeid="w-1701798638600-738" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="divider_container content-padding-horizontal" style="padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top" width="100%"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="divider_content-row" style="height: 1px; table-layout: fixed; width: 620px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" bgcolor="#5D7639" class="divider_content-cell" height="1" style="background-color: #5d7639; border-bottom-width: 0px; height: 1px; line-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/1101116784221/S.gif" style="display: block; height: 1px; width: 5px;" vspace="0" width="5" /></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1694699884091-798" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e2f2f; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #556b34; font-size: 22px; font-weight: bold;">Following up on Walton</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;">In my, admittedly sketchy, research for the Newsletter which featured Izaak Walton I mentioned in December that there was sparse evidence to indicate why the great author was buried in Winchester Cathedral beyond his family connections to the local clergy. However, I have more news thanks to Colin Jarman and Anthony McEwen who both corresponded with me having read the article.</span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Colin Jarman, who extensively researched Walton for his recently published novel </span><span style="font-size: 18px; font-style: italic;">The Compleat Angler - Part Three</span><span style="font-size: 18px;">, explains something more about the man behind the book,</span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-style: italic;">For us anglers, Walton is rightly revered as ‘the Father of Fishing.’ To scholars, old Izaak was a renowned and prolific biographer of the leading religious figures of his time. Walton published a number of seminal works on the country’s most-revered Bishops - many were close friends; and many fished alongside Walton well before he started working on his angling manual. </span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout layout--1-column" data-cpeid="w-1701794792533-331" style="color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="column column--1 scale stack" data-cpeid="w-1701794792595-680" style="width: 680px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="image image--padding-vertical image--mobile-scale image--mobile-center" data-cpeid="w-1701794792650-827" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="image_container content-padding-horizontal" style="padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><img alt="" class="image_content" data-image-content="" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/b34931e7001/536518fc-24ae-4a1f-b6fd-376ce7e44369.png?rdr=true" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="620" /></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout layout--1-column" data-cpeid="w-1701789961625-645" style="color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="column column--1 scale stack" data-cpeid="w-1701789961680-511" style="width: 680px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1701789961730-591" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e2f2f; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-style: italic;">Izaak was also a staunch Royalist in the troubled days of Cromwell’s republican rule. He even put his own life at risk safe-guarding one of the most precious and highly symbolic Crown Jewels - the Lesser George - during King Charles’ exile in France. To have been entrusted with such an important and dangerous task clearly shows the high regard Walton was held in by the highest-ranking clergy.</span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-style: italic;">Given his decades long devotion and service to Crown and Church, it is little surprise that Walton came to be buried in Winchester Cathedral - where he was living with his daughter. In the intervening years, Walton’s early reputation as a religious biographer has faded, eclipsed by the extraordinary ongoing success of ‘The Compleat Angler.’ So much so that later dedications to Walton in the Cathedral unsurprisingly focused on his ever-popular fishing book rather than his long-forgotten spiritual works.</span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Anthony McEwen wrote along similar lines but added for me a more personal connection in that Walton was Rector of Droxford, a Hampshire village on the banks of the River Meon, which is both close to where I was brought up and caught my first ever chalkstream trout on the fly.</span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span class="ql-cursor"></span>Walton wrote of the Meon, ‘Exceeds all England for swift, shallow, clear pleasant brooks and store of trouts.’ How very true!</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout layout--1-column" data-cpeid="w-1700324877561-125" style="color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="column column--1 scale stack" data-cpeid="w-1700324877619-509" style="width: 680px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="divider" data-cpeid="w-1700324877671-448" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="divider_container content-padding-horizontal" style="padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top" width="100%"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="divider_content-row" style="height: 1px; table-layout: fixed; width: 620px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" bgcolor="#5D7639" class="divider_content-cell" height="1" style="background-color: #5d7639; border-bottom-width: 0px; height: 1px; line-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/1101116784221/S.gif" style="display: block; height: 1px; width: 5px;" vspace="0" width="5" /></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout-margin" data-cpeid="w-1688647977619-327" style="color: black; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="layout-margin_cell" style="padding: 15px 30px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout-border layout-border--solid" data-cpeid="w-1688647977619-950" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" bgcolor="#CCCCCC" class="layout-border_cell" style="background-color: #cccccc; padding: 2px;" valign="top"><table bgcolor="#ffffff" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout layout--article layout--1-column" data-cpeid="w-1688647977619-142" style="background-color: white; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="column column--1 scale stack" data-cpeid="w-1688647977619-468" style="width: 616px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--articleHeading text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1688647977618-779" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #efad00; display: block; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 20px;" valign="top"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #556b34; font-size: 22px;">Quiz</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--article text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1688647977618-146" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e2f2f; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 20px;" valign="top"><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;">The normal random collection of questions inspired by the date, events or topics in the Newsletter. It is just for fun with answers at the bottom of the page.</span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">1)</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 18px;">Who said, "I spent 90 percent of my money on women and drink. The rest I wasted!"</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">2)</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 18px;">Who said, "The more I practice, the luckier I get."</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">3)</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 18px;">Who said, "I'll let the racket do the talking."</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">4)</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 18px;">Who said, "Some people believe football is a matter of life and death. I'm very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that."</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">5)</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 18px;">Who said, "Doctors and scientists said that breaking the four-minute mile was impossible, that one would die in the attempt. Thus, when I got up from the track after collapsing at the finish line, I figured I was dead."</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="image image--padding-vertical image--mobile-scale image--mobile-center" data-cpeid="w-1704307724584-031" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="image_container content-padding-horizontal" style="padding: 10px 20px;" valign="top"><img alt="" class="image_content" data-image-content="" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/b34931e7001/6a493d9e-daea-43b2-b5c3-6879fa489f47.png?rdr=true" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="576" /></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout layout--1-column" data-cpeid="w-1688647977619-692" style="color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="column column--1 scale stack" data-cpeid="w-1688647977619-183" style="width: 680px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1688647977619-116" style="table-layout: fixed; 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<p><i><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="color: white; font-size: 13.5pt;">BBC Panorama exposes EA failure to regulate</span></i><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="color: white; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="color: #2e2f2f; font-size: 13.5pt;">Who has the most thankless job in
Britain? For my money it is a man called Garth who had the misfortune to be
put up as spokesman for water company United Utilities, who were
eviscerated in the BBC programme <i>Panorama</i> on Monday night.</span></b><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="color: #2e2f2f; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="color: #2e2f2f; font-size: 13.5pt;">The theme of the 30 minute
investigation was how, thanks to the inadequacies (to use a kind word) of
the Environment Agency (EA) and loopholes in the reporting system,
pollution events that any normal person would consider significant, are
downgraded to insignificant. This is important because, by wiping the slate
clean, the Environment Agency appear to be doing their job i.e. keeping our
rivers and coastline free of pollution whilst the water companies get cash
bonuses in the form of higher charges to consumers, for hitting their clean
water goals. I will not recite all the details of the show but to give you
a flavour of the type of goings on at waste plant level, a water company
can guarantee a pollution free ‘pass’ for a waste outlet by turning off
the pump when the EA inspector arrives who then records the absence of flow
as a pass. You really could not make it up.</span><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="color: #2e2f2f; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="color: #2e2f2f; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="color: #2e2f2f; font-size: 13.5pt;">Now, at this point, the question we
really have to ask is who is most at fault. The water company for gaming
the system or the EA for allowing the system to be gamed? Before I answer
that let us back track to a significant legal ruling in the High Court
three weeks ago. This is how the story goes ……</span><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="color: #2e2f2f; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="color: #2e2f2f; font-size: 13.5pt;">In Yorkshire there is a small stream
called the Costa Beck, home to the Pickering Fishing Association (PFA).
Lovely though it is, the Beck also has the misfortune to be home to the
Pickering sewage treatment works which in 2019 discharged 400 times into the
river, followed by another 250 discharges in 2020. These, along with other
failures, meant the Costa was failing for fish under the Water Framework
Directive regulations, regulations based on 2017 legislation that is
intended to protect our rivers. This fail status was enough to spur the EA
into action who, after consultation with the PFA, came up with a plan to
save the Costa Beck.</span><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="color: #2e2f2f; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="color: #2e2f2f; font-size: 13.5pt;">Hurrah, you might think but the
Pickering anglers felt differently seeing the EA consultation as window
dressing and the subsequent plan as a box ticking exercise. The High Court
judge agreed characterising the approach as one of “smoke and mirrors”,
noting that the EA programme of measures could not reasonably be
expected to achieve the stated environmental objectives. As the angling
club argued, the EA was in effect planning to fail. It is thought that the
important Pickering ruling will open the door to similar challenges across
the country.</span><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="color: #2e2f2f; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="color: #2e2f2f; font-size: 13.5pt;">So, what is the answer to the
question? Do we pillory Garth and his water company bosses? Of course, we
do. Sure, they are for the most part acting within the letter of the
regulations but as to the spirit of those same regulations, they are,
frankly, taking the p**s. You and I, though occasionally people like
the Pickering crew, can do little about water companies but the Environment
Agency certainly can. It has 12,000 employees, a budget of £1.3 billion and
a raft of legislative powers that would make a dictatorship blush.</span><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="color: #2e2f2f; font-size: 12pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="color: #2e2f2f; font-size: 13.5pt;">However, the only thing getting worse
quicker than the quality of our river water is the quality of the
organisation tasked with protecting those rivers who are in full retreat as
the graph illustrates, with Environment Agency water quality samples taken
declining from 159,691 in 2013 to 41,519 in 2021. As I have often said
here, and elsewhere, the Environment Agency seems to have neither the will
nor the ability to fulfil its role. It should go.</span><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="color: #2e2f2f; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><b><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="color: #556b34; font-size: 16.5pt;">Fruits of the river</span></b><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="color: #2e2f2f; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="color: #2e2f2f; font-size: 13.5pt;">I have never been a great lover of
trout as a food item, except perhaps smoked. One of the most revolting
meals I ever cooked was a recipe culled from <i>Field & Stream</i>
magazine, that I created with huge hope, for a bolognaise sauce that
substituted beef mince for trout. The term cat food does not even come
close to how truly inedible it was in both smell and texture.</span></b><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="color: #2e2f2f; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="color: #2e2f2f; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="color: #2e2f2f; font-size: 13.5pt;">So, it is with a certain amount of
scepticism that I bring you news of an apple brandy from the Tamworth
Distillery on New Hampshire, USA who have created a Smoked Trout Flavored
(sic) Brandy, the flavour provided by a scoop of roe from a brook trout,
the native fish of the state.</span><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="color: #2e2f2f; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="color: #2e2f2f; font-size: 13.5pt;">You have been warned!</span><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="color: #2e2f2f; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><b><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="color: #556b34; font-size: 16.5pt;">25 years of surfing</span></b><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="color: #2e2f2f; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="color: #2e2f2f; font-size: 13.5pt;">Here at Fishing Breaks we celebrated
a little anniversary last week with the 24th November marking twenty five
years since I registered the domain fishingbreaks.co.uk, with the web site
following shortly after.</span></b><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="color: #2e2f2f; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="color: #2e2f2f; font-size: 13.5pt;">Looking back, it seems hard to
believe that you might ever doubt the power of the internet, but I was not
an earlier believer. In fact, it took a client called Simon Lewin, a very
early web site designer to get me over the line. Such was his passion for
the web and my early scepticism that he, sensing my reluctance to weigh
over hard cash, offered to build the first Fishing Breaks web site in
return for fishing. It paid for itself within three days of its launch just
before Christmas 1998.</span><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="color: #2e2f2f; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><i><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="color: #2e2f2f; font-size: 12pt;">The best the internet
archive would offer up!</span></i><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="color: #2e2f2f; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="color: #2e2f2f; font-size: 13.5pt;">Of course what we know now is that
obscure activities, such as chalkstream fishing are ideally suited to the
web. In the first eight seasons my real problem was finding clients; there
is only so much advertising in magazines such as <i>Trout & Salmon</i>
you can do but the internet allowed your clients to find you, which was a
gamechanger as was that adjunct to the whole technology process, namely
email.</span><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="color: #2e2f2f; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="color: #2e2f2f; font-size: 13.5pt;">If you are under 45 years of age this
will be more of a history lesson, but there was truly a time when fax, landline
phones, answering machines and, heaven forbid, letters were the route to
nailing down a successful fishing trip. But goodness was it time consuming.
I knew the location of every public phone box in the Test valley to
remotely access the answering machine back at the office aka home whilst
out on the river either guiding or river keeping. Email changed all that, a
seamless conversation done at the moment of your choosing, with time to
deliberate and enjoy the anticipation of what was to come. The online
booking system, though still a little impersonal for my liking, followed in
2008.</span><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="color: #2e2f2f; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><b><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="color: #556b34; font-size: 15pt;">More of the wet stuff</span></b><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="color: #2e2f2f; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="color: #2e2f2f; font-size: 13.5pt;">You probably don’t need me to tell
you this but we are in the midst of a very wet sustained run, with the
south ahead of the north in this respect by some margin. This is definitely
unusual, with river levels at the start of December more what you would
associate with February or March of a super wet winter. The rain has come
early and hard, with October double the average and November somewhere
approaching that.</span></b><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="color: #2e2f2f; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="color: #2e2f2f; font-size: 13.5pt;">At Nether Wallop Mill all our sluices
and hatches are fully open, at least two months ahead of schedule. At The
Parsonage we mercifully, ended the grayling season 30/November. This is
what it looked like on Wednesday and below the Wallop Brook yesterday!</span><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="color: #2e2f2f; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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stream becomes two</span></i><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="color: #2e2f2f; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="color: #2e2f2f; font-size: 13.5pt;">In some respects this is bad news,
but only in the sense that our scheduled river bank repairs and
restorations are on hold, certainly for months but probably until the
autumn of next year. But, in every other respect, let it rain, let it rain,
let it rain. It is liquidity in the bank of fishing for the season to come.</span><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="color: #2e2f2f; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="color: #2e2f2f; font-size: 13.5pt;">The normal random
collection of questions inspired by the date, events or topics in the
Newsletter. It is just for fun with answers at the bottom of the page.</span></b><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="color: #2e2f2f; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="color: #2e2f2f; font-size: 13.5pt;">1)</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"> </span><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="color: #2e2f2f; font-size: 13.5pt;">Brandy
has an age grading system one grade being V.S.O.P. What does V.S.O.P.
stand for?</span><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="color: #2e2f2f; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="color: #2e2f2f; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="color: #2e2f2f; font-size: 13.5pt;">2)</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"> </span><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="color: #2e2f2f; font-size: 13.5pt;">On
who’s debut studio album did the song <i>Let it Rain</i> appear in
1970?</span><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="color: #2e2f2f; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="color: #2e2f2f; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="color: #2e2f2f; font-size: 13.5pt;">3)</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"> </span><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="color: #2e2f2f; font-size: 13.5pt;">BBC first
broadcast Panorama in a) 1953 b) 1963 or c) 1973.</span><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="color: #2e2f2f; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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1953 with over 1,250 episodes to date<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Greetings!</span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">This is not a preview of the quiz but
what do you get if you divide 9 between 13? The number of Secretaries of
State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs since 2010.</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">In case you were wondering, prior to
the latest incumbent Steve Barclay appointed last week (more of him later)
they were Thérèse Coffey, Ranil Jayawardena, George Eustice, Theresa
Villiers, Michael Gove, Andrea Leadsom, Elizabeth Truss (who blessed us
with beavers), Owen Paterson and Caroline Spelman. The longest time in the
job was two years and the shortest seven weeks. I think for the sake of
balance I should also point out that the Labour government of 1997-2010 went
through a rather more modest four office holders though I don’t recall John
Prescott, Margaret Beckett, David Miliband or Hilary Benn being particular
champions of the countryside or our rivers.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">If you look through the full list of
27 office holders since the inception of the environment brief in 1970, you
would be hard pressed to recall any one of them in terms of notable
achievements. In fact, the only one to stick in the mind would be John
Gummer (now Lord Deben) for all the wrong reasons. I’m also tempted to
conclude environment has been seen by successive Prime Minsters as a handy
backwater in which to moor a loyal supporter or potentially troublesome
rebel at Cabinet level where they will not scare the horses. Which brings
us to Steve Barclay.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">However kindly you read Barclay’s CV
it is hard to find much in it to suggest an interest in the environment.
Yes, he represents a largely rural constituency in East Anglia but his
professional life prior to parliament was all about law then finance which
has been reflected in his six (!) ministerial positions since 2018. Moving
from Health to Environment this time, generally regarded as a demotion,
will hardly be motivating for him or the civil servants who will know he
has 14 months in the post at best. And that is all before you take into
account the fact that his wife is a senior executive at Anglian Water, one
of the worst performing water companies. It is a horrible conflict of
interest that will severely hamper his time in office.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">But the tragedy of his appointment,
and most of the twenty six before him, is not for the individuals but
rather the department they were meant to serve. Nobody can ever hope to get
on top of a brief as complicated as environment in such short spaces of
time and without a passion to save our countryside from the worst excesses
of human endeavour. The best we can hope of Barclay is that he puts his
legal and financial abilities to create a Conservative manifesto pledge to
reform not just the water industry but also the regulators who are supposed
to protect the interest of consumers aka voters.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Goodness, another week another piece
of the River Itchen for sale. This time it is at Bishopstoke, what you and
I would call Eastleigh to redress a bit of estate agent geographical
licence. </span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">If that location does not help it is
well down the Itchen system, a mile or so upstream of the M27 so not far
from Southampton Airport. If you’ve fished any beats in the area, you’d be
immediately upstream of Lower Itchen Fishery and a couple of miles
downstream of Shawford Park, Qing Ya Xi, Kanara and Breach Farm.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">It is a good bit of water, with
plenty of variety, that when last sold two decades ago was marketed as a
salmon beat. Sadly, the world has moved on and not in a good way for our
Atlantic friends so pickings in that department will be thin. That said
with a 1,261 yards of double bank fishing this represents good value on a
yard-by-yard basis compared to recent sales on the Anton, Itchen, Lambourn
and Test.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">In the end it will be your stomach
for the airport, motorway, train line and sewage works that determines
whether this is for you. It is not as bad in aggregate as all that sounds,
but best you should know. It is being sold by Savills; details on Rightmove
</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001xG9SCydd8sCS0VBMvEUeo_NdpbJUnXTCekKgDNZ-HDZYmLwBWnclr5Pj37URTA_erL6_glLX-ltxYNWbURtfUt0pv7X7jUzwYSZBgU3KNa0XN5tiW7cjBfyorbYkX1NW34YyvzceBqMzmL0zvtoF1BicCcgmHnUSXPNHxhHz-3CQn1aQyoUg-D0jNSX7olcUJHy0KC0qh4NfWAn_sReLmw==&c=kCXxGWyWuNpr0Fvrw3dgIxHTHhR5jQj3G8yzF8zWDrQ8ceSyNoVuoQ==&ch=9g9iiLyUvVIbQZEsTND5d2EGDk6S0GQe_GidildChXBYXewPtBNycA==" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">here ….. </span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><b><span style="color: #556b34; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 15.0pt;">John Bailey looks back on a barbel year on the River Wye</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">I do not think I have ever had a
guest columnist before, so I am delighted to bring you the
behind-the-scenes star of <i>Mortimer and Whitehouse</i>, all round amazing
angler and friend John Bailey who volunteered this report as our ‘rookie’
guide on the River Wye.</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">“My guiding life was jogging along
quite nicely thank you. I’ve been in the game for exactly thirty years and
my regular clients and my work with <i>Mortimer and Whitehouse</i> were
keeping me alive with a bit to spare. So why did I debate Simon Cooper’s
suggestion that I introduce some of Fishing Breaks’ aficionados to the
delights of barbel hunting on the Wye? Why indeed?</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">To be honest, whatever you lot might
think, I’ve always enjoyed working with Cooper. For very many years, we’ve
enjoyed projects together and I’ve had fun each and every time. I’m not
going to blow much more smoke, you’ll be relieved to hear, but I’ve always
found him entertaining, insightful and above all in this game, honest. So
that’s all a good start, I reasoned.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Above all, my own angling career has
roughly been split 55% coarse to 45% game with periods when one has taken
precedence over the other, like the years I worked on the Hardy Creative
Team and nearly forgot what a float looked like. This angling diversity has
enriched my life in fishing so colossally that I have always felt a need to
get this message across. It also explains my delight in my role at <i>Mortimer
and Whitehouse, Gone Fishing,</i> a program that explores every fish
species, every fishing method and every fishery type imaginable. This
all-encompassing philosophy is also at the heart of <i>How We Fish</i>, the
book Paul and I have just published, a book that I hope might draw
angling’s differing factions closer and help unite the sport in these
perilous times…how is that for a Christmas present plug!</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">There’s something else, an element
important to me. When I was learning my trade in the late Fifties but
especially the Sixties, coarse angling was vibrant, innovative, thrilling
and magical fun. Pioneering anglers wrote about new methods, new baits, new
tackle and whole new approaches that were all about involvement and a
deeper understanding of how fish feed and how the waters they live in work
as the seasons progress. As I progressed, I felt like a fishing detective
immersed in the aquatic world, trying to solve mysteries every session I
undertook. It was in the Seventies that coarse angling exploded with
invention and became the most compelling of all angling’s disciplines … or
so I felt. Today, all that energy has gone. Coarse angling in the main has
become stereotyped, tedious, over engineered and largely confined to
commercial fisheries where stunted carp arrive on the back of lorries.
Anglers now rely on barrows to laboriously transport their mountainous
amounts of gear a few yards to a swim that has been carefully prepared to
be devoid of bushes, reeds or any twig of nature. This is fishing in a
supermarket world and I loathe it.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">So, when Cooper called, I was already
on a mission to reel back the years and coarse fish in traditional ways,
ways that rely on knowledge of the fish above all else. No bivvies. No
barrows. No bolt rigs. Just the fisher and the fish and the minimal amount
of gear to connect them. That’s what I was about but I was anxious. Would
Fishing Breaks‘ predominantly game focused anglers embrace a coarse
challenge and give something new a chance? Would they want to wade, feel
for bites, bounce baits down the current, float fish, and potentially walk
miles, trying different swims and different methods in each of them? </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The answer, delightfully, has been
YES! From the middle of June to the beginning of November a stream of trout
and salmon anglers have come my Wye way and professed to having enjoyed
themselves. I think that they have been reassured that we ( generally) keep
on the move, that when the river levels allow, we get in there and that all
my barbel kit ( spare shot and hooks) fits into a bum bag pouch. Rod, net,
bait bucket and off we merrily go. Of course, the river and the fish are
the real stars of the show. Who cannot be impressed by the Wye, even if
accustomed to the Scottish or Icelandic rivers? And whilst chub are great,
barbel are simply scintillating. They look gorgeous, can be cunning and can
fight just as well as salmon pound for pound. ( and often much better.)
They can even be caught on fly if that’s the route you want to stick
with…and barbel on a five weight make bonefish look limp! </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Guiding is a marriage. I do my very,
very best to provide a good , interesting day even when the actual fishing
is hard. I like clients ( or friends as I hope they soon become) to
realise that, to listen and to take on board my recommendations. It’s good
when they engage and understand that we are doing something skilful and
exciting in sumptuous surroundings. Without exception , Cooper and his team
have sent me people simply brilliant to be with. Feedback has been good and
I’ve had wholly satisfying days when I have felt that my style of
coarse fishing has been understood and enjoyed. </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Roll on 2024! In the meanwhile, I am
in the process of exploring the upper Wye and tributaries for the legendary
grayling these enchanting stretches hold. Of course, fly fishing is productive
and superb sport but so is trotting with float and bait. Grayling fishing
is enjoying a real renaissance in popularity and spinning a centre pin is
part of the drama. So, if I find the fish, watch out for upcoming Grayling
Trotting Masterclasses(!!) throughout the wonderland that is the Welsh
Marches. Until then, my thanks to Simon, all at Fishing Breaks and those
excellent souls who have ventured with me on the coarse side!”</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Thank you, John. And to follow up on
those plugs <i>How to Fish</i> by Paul Whitehouse & John Bailey is
available on </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001xG9SCydd8sCS0VBMvEUeo_NdpbJUnXTCekKgDNZ-HDZYmLwBWnclr5Pj37URTA_e68266EmNcuO9EET1R6paiQ9_qZzwJ8rKm_mBywpKF7OE1wtHPNFJZ90w1HGxsO2Gr8SKrQd7YUixTZDAP8DEz0lz45IviPBIGp96fBuPz8Dnp22hoIIjkcnCOLzZ1uquoLMt-lGQUCY8EJNVE12rlZnbB-wIyNfhmHMOPK8HnPZff1uniavriEDkoMII_UPnqtAQoZR1F7cTgfEHoHtkW7BIwAP4hygsMBXjVKykGgtG_5ZsT-QHXA==&c=kCXxGWyWuNpr0Fvrw3dgIxHTHhR5jQj3G8yzF8zWDrQ8ceSyNoVuoQ==&ch=9g9iiLyUvVIbQZEsTND5d2EGDk6S0GQe_GidildChXBYXewPtBNycA==" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Amazon</span></a></span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">
and vouchers for guided days with John Bailey on the River Wye for groups
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The normal random
collection of questions inspired by the date, events or topics in the
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<p><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">1)</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"> </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">What
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<p><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">2)</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"> </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Anglia
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<p><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">3)</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"> </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Name one of the two
stars in the 1987 comedy <i>Trains, Planes and Automobiles</i>?</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Best wishes,</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Founder &
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<p><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">1)</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 7.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"> </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">River
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<p><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">2)</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 7.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"> </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">England<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">3)</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 7.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"> </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Steve
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</div>Life of a Chalkstreamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00537310318259829331noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-152819559311493256.post-32964943360112386782023-11-10T16:04:00.004+00:002023-11-10T16:04:45.789+00:00Report claims more diverse nymph population than 30 years ago<p> </p><div align="center">
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The recent publication of a paper
with the headline ‘Significant improvement in freshwater invertebrate
biodiversity in all types of English rivers over the past 30 years’ in the
scientific journal <i>Science of The Total Environment </i>has thrown the
pollution activist lobby into all sorts of a tizzy because, for all the
obvious reasons, it throws a significant spanner into the doom narrative. </span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Wildfish, the organisation previously
known as the Salmon & Trout Association, now turned river environment
advocates, rushed out a press release to, I think, trash or at least
seriously cast doubt on the <i>Total Environment</i> paper. I say I think
because the Wildfish release was even more baffling than the original paper
and, having read both, I can tell you that took some doing. But more of
that later. First let me give you my professional take which, usefully in
this context, goes back 30 years.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">If you were leaning over a bridge
today looking down on chalkstream in a normal month of a normal year it
would not look much different to 30 years ago. Indeed, I have seen colour
photographs Halford took of the river at Mottisfont Abbey which you’d be
hard pushed to date as 130 years ago. But appearances are deceptive. Travel
to the head of the valleys, even at the height of the wettest winter, and
streams have vanished in the past 30 years thanks to excessive abstraction.
These will never return; we are literally losing miles of tiny, wild
streams and brooks with every passing year. </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Looking over that bridge the water
looks clear but we know it contains a cocktail of chemicals, agricultural,
domestic and industrial that surely cannot be doing good. Indeed, you can
cogently argue that the largely organic waste of Halford’s time was helpful
to fish and bugs. Anyone who went sailing in the days when yachts vented
waste directly into the sea will know there is nothing fish like more than
s**t!</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">If anyone asks me what has changed
most in my time on the chalkstreams it would be rising fish, or more
particularly the lack thereof. Now, I cannot tell you definitively why this
is. Some people point to the stocking of triploid trout, effectively a
genetically modified trout. I’d go along with this except in my experience
unstocked streams seem to have an equal lack of rising fish. Maybe, if the
report is correct and the nymph population is on the rise, canny trout are
not wasting time and effort on floating flies but rather munching away to
their hearts content on the growing sub-surface population.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Part of my bafflement with regard to
the lack of rising fish is the hatches. Now, it is often said we lack the
hatches of old but I’ve not noticed that on a scale that would stop trout
looking upwards. Often, I see a river thick with flying bugs, which
supports the findings in the paper, but nary a fish moves. Are they, to
repurpose that old British Rail excuse, the wrong type of flies? It could
well be which brings us nicely around to the meat of the <i>Total Environment</i>
paper.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The highlights of the paper (their
words not mine) are that river macroinvertebrate richness has increased
throughout England over the past 30 years with a recovery of pollution
sensitive invertebrates reaching the reference condition, the improvement
seen across all river types. If like me you find some of the jargon
unhelpful ‘macroinvertebrate’ are bugs that can be seen with the human eye
and ‘reference condition’ the expected population level in normal
conditions. In short, the report is saying the assumption that pollution is
causing biodiversity decline should be challenged because their data, which
draws on solid monitoring going back 30 years, suggests something
different.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Now this is where it gets murky, and
to be fair to the authors of the report, they allude to this albeit buried
in the footnotes. The question is how do you measure biodiversity or as
they say in the highlights, richness? For the sake of explanation let me
give you examples: your sample today shows five species compared to four at
a previous sampling. That is a tick the box for increased biodiversity.
However, what has not been measured, and is not part of the historic
dataset, is the number of individual nymphs. </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">So, quite feasibly, you might have a
total population of a hundred nymphs today comprising of five species
whereas in the past there were a thousand nymphs comprising of four
species. But, by the metric of the <i>Total Environment</i> analysis, the
former is considered a win whereas you and I might feel the latter is
preferable. As they say of all statistics, it is often what is hidden that
is more revealing than what is shown.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Frankly, I’m not sure this report is
the real deal and the headline screams clickbait to me. These reports are
essentially advertorial for researchers who will have paid the journal in
the region £3,000 to secure publication. Whilst I am going to file this one
under the question mark heading I leave you with a last thought. In the
previous Newsletter I quoted Ernest Pain’s <i>Fifty Years on the Test</i>.
In it he talked about the river as it flowed through a town where it
divided into two channels. One channel was productive for fishing, whilst
the other, which carried a majority of the town ‘waste’ rarely saw a rising
fish. As I say, just a thought.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><b><span style="color: #556b34; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 16.5pt;">Lead me to the water</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Two newsletters ago, theming the quiz
randomly around the colour white, I asked a question that required the
answer of progressive rock band Procol Harum. </span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">I thought nothing more of it until an
email popped into my Inbox. Did I know Peter Cockwill, manager of Dever
Springs and one of our guide team used to run a tackle shop with Procol
Harum frontman, Gary Brooker? Indeed, I did not and a quick call to Pete
confirmed that it was indeed so.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Pete and Gary went back over four
decades first becoming friends when Pete ran a fishing syndicate in Surrey,
the friendship morphing into the shop in Godalming that was called Cockwill
& Brooker. But actually, that wasn’t the greatest impact Gary had on
Pete’s life but rather a casual question that has sparked Pete’s wanderlust
for fishing around the globe, when he was invited to join Gary on a trip to
Oregon. Tongue in cheek Pete calls that the ruination of his life, an
invitation that was to open up the world for a country boy who barely had a
passport, who now hosts regular trips to far away destinations.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Gary Brooker 1945-2022</span></i><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"></span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Gary, who enjoyed all
types of fishing from salmon in Alaska to sea fishing off the Isle of
Wight, was a passionate tackle collector and had ponds at his Surrey home.
He was also part of a small coterie fly fishing rock stars including Eric
Clapton, the three of them regularly fishing together on the River Test. In
fact above is the last fishing picture of Gary before his death to cancer
in 2022, was taken on one of those trips with Pete.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The Angler lead me to the
water Gary Brooker (1982)</span></i><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><b><span style="color: #556b34; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 16.5pt;">Location, location, location</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Estate agents Savills have relaunched
to the market Fulling Mill on the River Itchen just upstream of Winchester,
which if memory serves me correctly, originally came to the market two
years ago at £5 million. It is now £3 million.</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Before you rush to find the nearest
cheque book you should know it is something of a curate’s egg – good in
parts. The good is that it is set on 63 acres of water meadow, has a mile
and a half of fishing with the Mill and Cottage totalling nearly 5,000
sq. ft. It is, as they say, in need of renovation for which you should read
a complete gut job (some of which has been done) and the river is, to put
it kindly, neglected. None of that is insuperable and at the price you
should have plenty of headroom to do the work.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">However, what is insuperable is the
location the property sandwiched as it is between the M3 and the A34, with
to top it off, the flight path to Southampton Airport above. And, if that
was not enough of a discouragement a public footpath runs down the drive,
right past the front door and through the garden. Of course, footpaths can
be moved: Nether Wallop Mill had path that took a very similar route but
the owners in the 1980’s managed to have it rerouted though it is a
fiendishly complicated process requiring almost total unanimity of what we
now call stakeholders.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">In the case of Nether Wallop one
member of the village retained the right to walk along the route of the old
path for the duration of his lifetime, accompanied by a maximum of three
members of his family, to attend church services, the right dying with his
own death that occurred some 40 years later. I suspect achieving a
change of route, without some tangible gain, is much harder to do today
especially in a National Park such as the South Downs in which the Fulling
Mill is located.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The truth is that if you could pick
Fulling Mill up and place it away from the not good parts of that curate’s
egg you would be looking at a price tag of double or more; the mantra
location, location, location has never been so valid. You can view the </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001ih8TDadr1I50kk1NGPMgHAxtTbGOL0qr_Psfgi0C-aEGgqkk9972wSHxTx8dD9aYnh0xfU2qqVWpUDY4gy4p-CfZMQfUPd2Hjy2X0CVF_A8-wA_Sh7fhtWj4npNEm7h6IOuEi0oiCswZb2X1HdU13nJ6ofZd9GsVRdHYI5eGgCF7cJdehomgiRK8ZetYEyrj&c=p2U6yNKOSkzllUwpfhFD5cqBt8o3Qzzo5_2o7gD9WyASMWj4E5ejCQ==&ch=Dk_0mtgg9VkCTIPQchXuevJWhiTHDnmOgskQxsnQvEkruF0mDYdY4w==" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">full details here</span></a></span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">.
The property is offered as a whole or in three lots. </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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collection of questions inspired by the date, events or topics in the
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<p><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">1) What did German engineer Gottlieb
Daimler unveil on this day in 1885?</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">2) In ancient Greek folklore what was
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">3) What was the
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</div>Life of a Chalkstreamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00537310318259829331noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-152819559311493256.post-39755765341939167112023-10-28T12:28:00.000+01:002023-10-28T12:28:19.526+01:00The time when salmon were considered vermin<p> </p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout layout--1-column" data-cpeid="w-1688652185931-927" style="color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="column column--1 scale stack" data-cpeid="w-1688652185981-841" style="width: 680px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1688652186026-334" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e2f2f; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><b>Greetings!</b></span></p><p align="justify" style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;">I have often heard tell, back in the day, of a woman, both a lady of the realm and large estate owner on the upper reaches of the Test who detested the prospect of salmon spawning over her trout redds so much so that she would position herself on a bridge to blast any seaborne interlopers from the water. </span></p><p align="justify" style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">In truth, I was never entirely sure as to the truth of the tale until last week when, from a pile of fishing books gifted to me, I chanced upon </span><span style="font-size: 18px; font-style: italic;">Fifty Years on the Test</span><span style="font-size: 18px;"> published in 1934. Now, I suspect the author C. Ernest Pain was a lecturing bore; I’d hazard the book would be better retitled </span><span style="font-size: 18px; font-style: italic;">Fifty Years on a Soapbox </span><span style="font-size: 18px;">as he holds forth on fishing, flies, fly life, river management and fish. But Chapter XI is headed ‘Salmon as Vermin’ and opens with the question, ‘Should salmon be allowed in the upper Test?’</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout layout--1-column" data-cpeid="w-1690984991297-991" style="color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="column column--1 scale stack" data-cpeid="w-1690984991352-285" style="width: 680px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="image image--padding-vertical image--mobile-scale image--mobile-center" data-cpeid="w-1690984991401-477" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="image_container content-padding-horizontal" style="padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><img alt="" class="image_content" data-image-content="" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/b34931e7001/11c7b879-7f43-43df-a874-3a474488f928.jpg?rdr=true" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="598" /></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1690988091065-513" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e2f2f; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><p align="center" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">R<span style="font-style: italic;">omsey Mills in 1928</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout layout--1-column" data-cpeid="w-1688647977617-393" style="color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="column column--1 scale stack" data-cpeid="w-1688647977617-322" style="width: 680px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1688647977617-383" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e2f2f; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">The genesis goes back to 1906 when a river owner just upstream of Romsey complained to the Hampshire Fishery Board that salmon were being prevented from running upstream by the mills at Romsey, presumably so that the impounded salmon could be harvested as a cash crop. However, those further upstream were alarmed at the prospect of the millowner being forced to encourage salmon upstream, thus destroying the famed trout waters, so a four day enquiry ensued. As a result, a line was drawn just below Romsey Mills. To repurpose George Orwell, salmon below this line were good and salmon above it bad, the current Test & Itchen Association coming into being after the enquiry to be standing ready to repel any future relaxation of the rules that might destroy the trout fishings.</span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">The case against the salmon was two-fold. Firstly, the previously mentioned competition for spawning beds. Secondly, competition for food from both salmon parr and kelts would impact on the development of trout fry. In aggregate the belief was that there was little point sacrificing good trout fishing water that would never be suitable for salmon fishing hence salmon being labelled vermin in all but the final five miles of the River Test from Romsey to the sea.</span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"></span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">It seems incredible today, with the salmon run down to a few hundred annually, that such a debate could ever take place. Frankly, I find it hard to believe that salmon could have done such lasting damage to trout stocks, but it was clearly a passionately held belief. But such is the turn of the circle that today we are doing all we can to encourage the salmon run though whether our puny efforts will have any impact only time will tell.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="image image--padding-vertical image--mobile-scale image--mobile-center" data-cpeid="w-1698276940345-626" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="image_container content-padding-horizontal" style="padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><img alt="" class="image_content" data-image-content="" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/b34931e7001/e9cda5e6-a73f-44c3-843f-aa11698b70dd.jpg?rdr=true" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="612" /></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1698278475847-268" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e2f2f; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><p align="center" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Salmon leaping at Romsey Mills in 1990; the sacking was in place to protect the fish from impact with the brick surround.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout layout--1-column" data-cpeid="w-1688647977618-278" style="color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="column column--1 scale stack" data-cpeid="w-1688647977618-214" style="width: 680px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="divider" data-cpeid="w-1688647977618-224" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="divider_container" style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px;" valign="top" width="100%"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="divider_content-row" style="height: 1px; table-layout: fixed; width: 639.194px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" bgcolor="#5D7639" class="divider_content-cell" height="1" style="background-color: #5d7639; border-bottom-width: 0px; height: 1px; line-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/1101116784221/S.gif" style="display: block; height: 1px; width: 5px;" vspace="0" width="5" /></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout layout--1-column" data-cpeid="w-1688647977618-412" style="color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="column column--1 scale stack" data-cpeid="w-1688647977618-554" style="width: 680px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1688647977618-930" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e2f2f; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #556b34; font-size: 22px; font-weight: bold;">Why did the double taper line fall out of fashion?</span></p><p align="center" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;">When did we so completely fall out of love with double tapered (DT) fly lines? I was prompted to this reflection on reading an article in </span><span style="font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Hatch Magazine</span><span style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;"> by a friend of this parish, John Juracek, who lives and fishes in Wyoming, USA.</span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">There was a time when DT lines were the only ones in town. If you wanted a weight forward (WF) line you took a pair of scissors to a DT line, cut it in half replacing the discarded section with some thick monofilament and voila you had a crude shooting head. Oh, how proud we felt throwing these homemade contraptions a few extra yards beyond our neighbours on the bank of a reservoir. Of course, the tackle industry soon spied an opportunity and three decades on the market for fly lines is dominated by the weight forward variety. But why?</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="image image--padding-vertical image--mobile-scale image--mobile-center" data-cpeid="w-1697107364130-787" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="image_container content-padding-horizontal" style="padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><img alt="" class="image_content" data-image-content="" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/b34931e7001/683f2cb2-af9e-44f0-8aab-126d2abb90e9.jpg?rdr=true" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="582" /></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1694699884091-798" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e2f2f; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Well, distance matters. We are obsessed with casting as far as we can. Those of you who have been around Fishing Breaks for some years might remember Duncan Weston, the original grizzled and dour Scottish instructor with wit so dry it made Death Valley look like a swamp. He would often relate a tale from the Game Fair where you could try before you buy. A potential customer was about to reject a high-end rod purchase as he could not get out the entire fly line, an unlikely feat by the best of casters, an elite gang this guy was never likely to be invited to join. Not wanting to miss out on a sale Duncan disappeared inside the tent with the outfit on the pretext of changing the line. Out of sight he pulled the line off the reel to the backing, cut 10 yards off the fly line and reattached the fly line. A sale ensued.</span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">I won’t go as far to say that I hate WF lines, but I truly prefer DT for everything bar saltwater fishing. Now that is largely by virtue of most of the fishing I do. If I cast 20 yards its generally a long way and my favoured outfits are 5 weight or less. Now, at this point I am going to quote Juracek as I cannot put it better than him,</span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-style: italic;">“From a practical point of view, the only advantage a weight-forward line has over a double-taper line is the ability to cast long distances—say, over 75 feet. But even this advantage carries a caveat. To wit, you must use a line-size heavy enough so that a double-haul can exploit the difference in weight between the line’s head and running line (the heavier head essentially drags along the lightweight running line, adding distance to the cast). This means using a 6-weight line or heavier. Anything lighter and there simply isn’t enough weight difference between the head and the running line to gain significant extra distance, double haul or not. (One can argue here for 5-weights, but it’s a borderline argument.) Weight-forward 2, 3, and 4s … hmm … why are they even made?)”.</span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Into this mix you can also add the dexterity of a DT over a WF. Done a poor cast? You can just lift the DT off the water and recast in a single motion. With a WF at any appreciable distance you lose time, accuracy and presentation that will cost you a quick shot at a fish on the move. Likewise, you simply cannot mend a WF line as effectively; the thin ‘running line’ does not lift from or hold to the current as well at the fatter DT. But most of all the turnover of a DT is smoother and gentler than that of the harsher front tip and short taper of a WF. I’ll guarantee you get fewer trailing loops, less snap offs and more flies that settle like thistledown with a DT than you ever will with a WF.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="image image--padding-vertical image--mobile-scale image--mobile-center" data-cpeid="w-1698278241256-847" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="image_container content-padding-horizontal" style="padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><img alt="" class="image_content" data-image-content="" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/b34931e7001/7df670a5-e152-4534-9218-dc0f1e451174.jpg?rdr=true" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="620" /></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1698277328998-121" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e2f2f; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">All of which brings us back to the original question as to why WFs have achieved such dominance? My best guess it that it is generational as WF have become the default option for both the trade and the customer with DTs regarded at best as niche and at worst a poor choice of line. A quick scour of fishing store web sites (what a life I live …..) confirms this. You have to dig deep for double taper options with online sites preferring to pair a WF with any rod or reel purchase. If you were a newcomer to the sport, you could be forgiven for not even knowing of the existence of the double taper let alone its manifest advantages. Of course, a cynic might also point to vested interest: the DT offers you two lines for the price of one with the ability to reverse it for a new lease of life.</span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">A more current problem is that DTs are often out of stock as continuing post-pandemic supply chain issues drive manufacturing to focus on the bestselling lines. However, stock issues aside Cortland (3-9 wt.), Airflo (2-6 wt.), Orvis (3-5 wt.), Rio (3-6 wt.) and Scientific Anglers (2-6 wt.) all offer double taper lines in the weights as listed. I am sure there are other makes, so apologies for those I have omitted.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout layout--1-column" data-cpeid="w-1698277337295-829" style="color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="column column--1 scale stack" data-cpeid="w-1698277337336-048" style="width: 680px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="image image--padding-vertical image--mobile-scale image--mobile-center" data-cpeid="w-1698277337377-631" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="image_container content-padding-horizontal" style="padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><img alt="Bullington Manor John above Venice Bridge" class="image_content" data-image-content="" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/b34931e7001/7d8abd0c-d41b-4132-ac3a-47906d2985a8.jpg?rdr=true" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="620" /></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1698278715209-540" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e2f2f; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><p align="center" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;">John Juracek at Bullington Manor</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout layout--1-column" data-cpeid="w-1688647977618-538" style="color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="column column--1 scale stack" data-cpeid="w-1688647977618-816" style="width: 680px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="divider" data-cpeid="w-1688647977618-829" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="divider_container" style="padding-bottom: 9px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top" width="100%"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="divider_content-row" style="height: 1px; table-layout: fixed; width: 639.194px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" bgcolor="#5D7639" class="divider_content-cell" height="1" style="background-color: #5d7639; border-bottom-width: 0px; height: 1px; line-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/1101116784221/S.gif" style="display: block; height: 1px; width: 5px;" vspace="0" width="5" /></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout layout--1-column" data-cpeid="w-1688647977618-375" style="color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="column column--1 scale stack" data-cpeid="w-1688647977618-760" style="width: 680px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1688647977618-052" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e2f2f; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #556b34; font-size: 22px; font-weight: bold;">And the winner is .......</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #556b34; font-size: 22px; font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="color: #355635; font-size: 24px; font-weight: bold;"></span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;">This has been an amazing year. I have said it before, but it is worth repeating, in my thirty years plus as a chalkstream professional I have never seen the rivers looking so lovely with clean gravel, great weed and clarity across a season, especially in the second part of the year. In terms of numbers the read out is 25% more rain during the past 12 months than average which, to put that in some sort of context, is big. Think of all the grief we had last year when the total was just 10% down on the average thirty-two inches a year for southern England.</span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"></span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Looking ahead the impact will be better spawning conditions over the winter with higher survival rates for eggs, fry and yearlings. Of course, it will make doing our winter works that bit more tricky such as the extensive bank reinstatement we have planned for Bullington Manor to make it easier to get around or new bridges for Breach Farm. But I’ll take a few logistical headaches every time if it means fuller and brighter rivers, plus the prospect of going into ’24 with brimming aquifers.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="image image--padding-vertical image--mobile-scale image--mobile-center" data-cpeid="w-1695894374744-639" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="image_container content-padding-horizontal" style="padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><img alt="" class="image_content" data-image-content="" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/b34931e7001/92f09ed6-9d3b-4f37-82a1-db202f04a13b.jpg?rdr=true" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="589" /></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1695895075107-518" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e2f2f; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><p align="center" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">Visit Nigel Nunn flies<a href="https://www.nigelnunnflies.com/" style="color: blue;" target="_blank"> via this link</a></p></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1698277416942-232" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e2f2f; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">So, to finally wrap the season, accepting that some of you will still have designs on grayling, I am delighted to announce that Michael Bray, who fished with friends at Coombe Mill on the River Avon in July, collects the 2023 Feedback Draw prize. In the post will be a specially commissioned selection of unique Mayflies in an engraved Wheatley fly box, with a hand drawn booklet from our vice master, Nigel Nunn. I cannot imagine, such is the beauty of the ensemble, the flies will ever be used in anger, but it is enough to keep the juices flowing in the drear of the winter month that stand between us and next May.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="image image--padding-vertical image--mobile-scale image--mobile-center" data-cpeid="w-1698277428571-668" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="image_container content-padding-horizontal" style="padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><img alt="" class="image_content" data-image-content="" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/b34931e7001/d718084c-9ae3-4fed-923a-a8291b2d5cd4.jpg?rdr=true" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="620" /></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="divider" data-cpeid="w-1689804243524-776" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="divider_container content-padding-horizontal" style="padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top" width="100%"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="divider_content-row" style="height: 1px; table-layout: fixed; width: 620px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" bgcolor="#5D7639" class="divider_content-cell" height="1" style="background-color: #5d7639; border-bottom-width: 0px; height: 1px; line-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/1101116784221/S.gif" style="display: block; height: 1px; width: 5px;" vspace="0" width="5" /></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout-margin" data-cpeid="w-1688647977619-327" style="color: black; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="layout-margin_cell" style="padding: 15px 30px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout-border layout-border--solid" data-cpeid="w-1688647977619-950" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" bgcolor="#CCCCCC" class="layout-border_cell" style="background-color: #cccccc; padding: 2px;" valign="top"><table bgcolor="#ffffff" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout layout--article layout--1-column" data-cpeid="w-1688647977619-142" style="background-color: white; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="column column--1 scale stack" data-cpeid="w-1688647977619-468" style="width: 616px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--articleHeading text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1688647977618-779" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #efad00; display: block; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 20px;" valign="top"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #556b34; font-size: 22px;">Quiz</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--article text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1688647977618-146" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e2f2f; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 20px;" valign="top"><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;">The normal random collection of questions inspired by the date, events or topics in the Newsletter. It is just for fun with answers at the bottom of the page.</span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">1)</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 18px;">Which famous illusionist died on Halloween 1926?</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">2)</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 18px;">Who has won more Rugby World Cups, South Africa or New Zealand?</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"></span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">3)</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; 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width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="image_container content-padding-horizontal" style="padding-left: 30px; padding-right: 30px;" valign="top"><a data-trackable="true" href="https://fishingbreaks.co.uk/" target="_blank"><img alt="" class="image_content" data-image-content="" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/b34931e7001/567b2a15-d77d-4cd2-919c-767ea3b447d3.jpg?rdr=true" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="167" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout layout--1-column" data-cpeid="w-1688647977619-164" style="color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="column column--1 scale stack" data-cpeid="w-1688647977619-212" style="width: 680px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1688647977619-031" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; 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padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">1)<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 9px;"> </span>Harry Houdini</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">2)<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 9px;"> </span>Both have won 3 each</p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">3)<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 9px;"> </span>Horsehair, silk, nylon, polyester and plastic. In 1952, the Cortland pioneered the use of vinyl to coat braided cores creating the first plastic coated fly lines that are mainstream today.</p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table>Life of a Chalkstreamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00537310318259829331noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-152819559311493256.post-45904234660945314012023-10-14T11:41:00.005+01:002023-10-14T11:41:50.715+01:00Is the Angling Trust a worthy cause gone rogue?<p> </p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout layout--1-column" data-cpeid="w-1688652185931-927" style="color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="column column--1 scale stack" data-cpeid="w-1688652185981-841" style="width: 680px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1688652186026-334" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e2f2f; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><b>Greetings!</b></span></p><p align="justify" style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;">Am I becoming too old and jaded? I did rather begin to wonder as I ploughed my way, at first in hope, through the recently published twenty four page </span><a href="https://app.constantcontact.com/pages/campaigns/view/list#" style="color: black; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Strategic plan for the Angling Trust 2023 – 2028</a><span style="color: black; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;">.</span></p><p align="justify" style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 18px;">Now, I like the idea of looking to the future of our sport. </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 18px;">We might be battling societal and demographic change, which along with most other outdoor sports and pastimes, is seeing a year-on-year decline in participation rates but we are still a considerable force with 2.5 million regular participants which, to put that is some sort of context, is roughly two and a half times the number of people who play golf, four times more than tennis and half a million ahead of football. We are important in the British way of relaxation and deserve not only to have a seat at every table that determines the legislative and economic landscape for leisure pastimes but also a strong, able and intelligent body to sit at that table for us. It is just a shame it is such an bland body such as the Angling Trust.</span></p><p align="justify" style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 18px;">In the past few years I have, modesty aside, become all too expert at dissecting the voluminous output of those bodies that have a direct impact on rivers and the countryside. The EA. DEFRA. Natural England. Numerous water companies. Ofwat. Regular readers will know far too well my usual list of suspects. There is a template to which all these organisations cleave as they parade their virtue in annual reports, policy statements and strategic plans. They are shameless magpies in lifting trite phrases from every play book be it on diversity, climate change, net zero, mental health or whatever passing fad will tick the ESG boxes that they value so highly.</span> </p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout layout--1-column" data-cpeid="w-1690984991297-991" style="color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="column column--1 scale stack" data-cpeid="w-1690984991352-285" style="width: 680px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="image image--padding-vertical image--mobile-scale image--mobile-center" data-cpeid="w-1690984991401-477" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="image_container content-padding-horizontal" style="padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><img alt="" class="image_content" data-image-content="" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/b34931e7001/051fc8a7-b44f-4c26-9657-4b15f1de5072.jpg?rdr=true" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="598" /></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1690988091065-513" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e2f2f; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><p align="center" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Read the full document </span><a href="https://anglingtrust.net/about-us/fishing-for-good-angling-trust-strategic-plan-2023-2028/#:~:text=Promoting%20the%20mental%20health%20and,of%20fish%20and%20the%20environment." style="color: blue; font-style: italic;" target="_blank">here .....</a></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout layout--1-column" data-cpeid="w-1688647977617-393" style="color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="column column--1 scale stack" data-cpeid="w-1688647977617-322" style="width: 680px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1688647977617-383" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e2f2f; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">The Angling Trust plan, such as it is, has the fingerprints of an expensive management consultancy SWOT analysis all over it. The Trust strengths being many (</span><span style="font-size: 18px; font-style: italic;">quelle surprise</span><span style="font-size: 18px;">), the opportunities various and threats anodyne. Weaknesses? I had a mild chuckle at this section, hidden in an obscure corner of one page where three brief bullet points listed lack of public funding, ‘enormous diversity which creates a challenge in resourcing’ (no idea what that means) and the ‘lack of awareness in the angling community of the role of the Angling Trust’. Err, who’s fault is that?</span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">We all know full well this strategic plan, which contains I promise you not a single concrete proposal or any costed plan is destined, having fulfilled it feelgood purpose for the Trust quangocrats, to end its brief life gathering dust on a shelf in the Trusts’ Leominster office. In itself that would not matter if the Angling Trust was not, as they point out in the document, the recognised National Governing Body for the sport of angling. And there’s the rub. We have a body more interested in looking out for itself than the sport it purports to represent.</span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">But perhaps that is no surprise; it is an organisation increasingly distant from its roots. Membership income now only accounts for just over a quarter of monies in, with more than half coming from the Environment Agency and Sport England. Make no mistake the </span><span style="font-size: 18px; font-style: italic;">Strategic plan for the Angling Trust 2023 – </span><span style="font-size: 18px;">2028 was written for those paymasters and not us or the benefit of angling.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout layout--1-column" data-cpeid="w-1688647977618-278" style="color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="column column--1 scale stack" data-cpeid="w-1688647977618-214" style="width: 680px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="divider" data-cpeid="w-1688647977618-224" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="divider_container" style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px;" valign="top" width="100%"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="divider_content-row" style="height: 1px; table-layout: fixed; width: 639.184px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" bgcolor="#5D7639" class="divider_content-cell" height="1" style="background-color: #5d7639; border-bottom-width: 0px; height: 1px; line-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/1101116784221/S.gif" style="display: block; height: 1px; width: 5px;" vspace="0" width="5" /></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout layout--1-column" data-cpeid="w-1688647977618-412" style="color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="column column--1 scale stack" data-cpeid="w-1688647977618-554" style="width: 680px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1688647977618-930" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e2f2f; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #556b34; font-size: 22px; font-weight: bold;">Saltwater fly fishing UK style</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;">Saltwater fly fishing is usually thought of in terms of sunny destinations with bath-warm water to your knees with the pleasant grit of sand filling your wading shoes. In the lee of the M27 on an early autumn day with the roar of Portsmouth ferry bound juggernauts for a backdrop, clad in chest waders chosen for their thermal qualities, is not exactly the thing of exotic travel brochures but the best of fish sometimes live in the most unlikely of places.</span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">It was here on the first weekend in September, and all along the coast to the east at Bognor, that the contestants gathered for the 2024 Orvis Saltwater Festival, a competition which has grown from a single day a few years ago for what some might call fly fishing oddballs to a fully-fledged celebration of UK saltwater fly fishing with 180 contestants competing over three days.</span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">It is a truism that there is no fish, given enough time and the right conditions, which cannot be caught on the fly but for the coastal saltwater brethren who ply this increasingly popular subset of fly fishing it is sea bass and mullet that attract the attention. The former because they are the most ‘sporting’ British fish, close to bonefish with aggressive feeding habits and fighting qualities whilst mullet are just really, really hard to catch. </span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="image image--padding-vertical image--mobile-scale image--mobile-center" data-cpeid="w-1697107364130-787" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="image_container content-padding-horizontal" style="padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><img alt="" class="image_content" data-image-content="" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/b34931e7001/a477e187-1b16-413c-b4ad-ee6c6594d836.jpg?rdr=true" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="582" /></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="image image--padding-vertical image--mobile-scale image--mobile-center" data-cpeid="w-1697107360152-676" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="image_container content-padding-horizontal" style="padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><img alt="" class="image_content" data-image-content="" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/b34931e7001/deccfbb1-6af5-4a8e-8855-3fcc4ffff5f2.jpg?rdr=true" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="589" /></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="image image--padding-vertical image--mobile-scale image--mobile-center" data-cpeid="w-1697114253542-541" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="image_container content-padding-horizontal" style="padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><img alt="" class="image_content" data-image-content="" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/b34931e7001/2f4cb311-6bc1-40f1-bbe3-bc8a38a1d44b.jpg?rdr=true" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="583" /></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1694699884091-798" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e2f2f; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">A bit like our own One Fly the competition is all about the length of the fish, all released having been measured. Obviously, the additional complication when it comes to anything to do with the sea is the tide and the Solent, thanks to the bottleneck effect of the Isle of Wight, has an extreme tidal range which was not helped on this particular Festival weekend with some of the largest tides in forty odd years with a fifteen foot rise and fall within the space of a few hours.</span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">This didn’t make it the easiest of weekends, but as our guide Steve Batten, a contestant for the last four years, says, ‘It’s never easy.’ He counts a single measurable fish as a successful day whether it is for fun or competition which, in many respects, is a refreshing philosophy in a time when we do have a tendency to get rather get hung up on numbers and size.</span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">You can watch Andy Ford’s 45 minute show, which I think is also broadcast on BT Sport, on </span><a href="https://youtu.be/CPvjAi_CcTE?si=fnx3Ozo_-QZPvdDW" style="color: blue; font-size: 18px;" target="_blank">You Tube via this link</a><span style="font-size: 18px;"> and there are plenty more photos on the </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/OSFFF/" style="color: blue; font-size: 18px;" target="_blank">Orvis Saltwater Fly Fishing Festival Facebook</a><span style="font-size: 18px;"> page. </span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="image image--padding-vertical image--mobile-scale image--mobile-center" data-cpeid="w-1697109537993-629" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="image_container content-padding-horizontal" style="padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><a data-trackable="true" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPvjAi_CcTE" target="_blank"><img alt="" class="image_content" data-image-content="" src="https://web-extract.constantcontact.com/v1/thumbnail?url=http%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FCPvjAi_CcTE%2Fhqdefault.jpg" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="593" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout layout--1-column" data-cpeid="w-1688647977618-538" style="color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="column column--1 scale stack" data-cpeid="w-1688647977618-816" style="width: 680px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="divider" data-cpeid="w-1688647977618-829" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="divider_container" style="padding-bottom: 9px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top" width="100%"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="divider_content-row" style="height: 1px; table-layout: fixed; width: 639.184px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" bgcolor="#5D7639" class="divider_content-cell" height="1" style="background-color: #5d7639; border-bottom-width: 0px; height: 1px; line-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/1101116784221/S.gif" style="display: block; height: 1px; width: 5px;" vspace="0" width="5" /></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout layout--1-column" data-cpeid="w-1688647977618-375" style="color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="column column--1 scale stack" data-cpeid="w-1688647977618-760" style="width: 680px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1688647977618-052" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e2f2f; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #556b34; font-size: 22px; font-weight: bold;">Mayfly dreamin'</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #556b34; font-size: 22px; font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="color: #355635; font-size: 24px; font-weight: bold;"></span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;">I thought I would wrap up the monthly feedback draw prize winner with something to squirrel away for next season, so I asked our vice master Nigel Nunn to tie a Mayfly selection. As ever, his amazing creations are, at least we hope, not just flies of great beauty and tying accomplishment but also equally appreciated by our fishy friends for dining purposes.</span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Well, done to Steve Brooks who wins the September draw having fished Breach Farm on the River Itchen. Next time it will be the end of season draw with a very special fly box filled with Nunn flies.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="image image--padding-vertical image--mobile-scale image--mobile-center" data-cpeid="w-1695894374744-639" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="image_container content-padding-horizontal" style="padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><img alt="" class="image_content" data-image-content="" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/b34931e7001/afad9666-6994-47a8-9595-0d5731d6d6d3.jpg?rdr=true" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="589" /></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1695895075107-518" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e2f2f; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><p align="center" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">Visit Nigel Nunn flies<a href="https://www.nigelnunnflies.com/" style="color: blue;" target="_blank"> via this link</a></p></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="divider" data-cpeid="w-1689804243524-776" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="divider_container content-padding-horizontal" style="padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top" width="100%"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="divider_content-row" style="height: 1px; table-layout: fixed; width: 620px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" bgcolor="#5D7639" class="divider_content-cell" height="1" style="background-color: #5d7639; border-bottom-width: 0px; height: 1px; line-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/1101116784221/S.gif" style="display: block; height: 1px; width: 5px;" vspace="0" width="5" /></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout-margin" data-cpeid="w-1688647977619-327" style="color: black; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="layout-margin_cell" style="padding: 15px 30px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout-border layout-border--solid" data-cpeid="w-1688647977619-950" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" bgcolor="#CCCCCC" class="layout-border_cell" style="background-color: #cccccc; padding: 2px;" valign="top"><table bgcolor="#ffffff" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout layout--article layout--1-column" data-cpeid="w-1688647977619-142" style="background-color: white; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="column column--1 scale stack" data-cpeid="w-1688647977619-468" style="width: 616.007px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--articleHeading text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1688647977618-779" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #efad00; display: block; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 20px;" valign="top"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #556b34; font-size: 22px;">Quiz</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--article text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1688647977618-146" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e2f2f; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 20px;" valign="top"><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;">The normal random collection of questions inspired by the date, events or topics in the Newsletter. It is just for fun with answers at the bottom of the page.</span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">1)<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 9px;"> </span>The cornerstone of which building, previously referred to as the Executive Mansion, was laid in this day in 1792?</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">2)<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 9px;"> </span>Leukophobia is the intense fear of what?</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">3)<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 9px;"> </span>Which British band had a 1967 no. 1 hit with A Whiter Shade of Pale?</p></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="image image--padding-vertical image--mobile-scale image--mobile-center" data-cpeid="w-1697109445456-276" style="table-layout: fixed; 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padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">1)<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 9px;"> </span>The White House</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">2)<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 9px;"> </span>The colour white</p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">3)<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 9px;"> </span>Procol Harum</p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table>Life of a Chalkstreamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00537310318259829331noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-152819559311493256.post-39991043693427792232023-09-29T08:24:00.002+01:002023-09-29T08:24:22.433+01:00Does the Environment Agency even like fishing?<p> </p><div align="center">
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Greetings!</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">As many of you will know I have had
two passions in my life, gambling and fly fishing, both of which I have
been fortunate to make work as work. Though it is 30 years or more since I
last took a pay cheque from the betting industry, I still keep an eye on my
old colleagues, with my attention drawn earlier in the week to the
financial results (not good) of the international betting behemoth Entain
who swallowed up one of my old employers, Coral Bookmakers</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Now, normally I don’t bother with the
comments section of a Times newspaper article but for some reason I clicked
to scroll down all twenty four. The very last, noting what Entain
disingenuously call regulatory headwinds, read:</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">“… having been involved as a Non Exec
in the gaming industry I can categorically state that I have never
encountered a Regulatory Authority, anywhere in the world and across
multiple industries, which so actively detests their sphere of
activity like the UK Gambling Commission.” </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">I have no idea who the writer of the
comment, a L de Medici might be, though I am guessing it is a thinly
disguised <i>nom de plume</i> inspired by the 15th century Italian
statesman and banker. Well, Signor Medici I could not agree with you
more but I can sadly only give you cold comfort in that your industry is
not alone. We have our own such authority. It is called the Environment
Agency (EA).</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">... but maybe not
anglers.</span></i><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">There was a time, not so long ago,
when the EA was the helpful friend. Want a survey to assess the state of
your fishery? The electrofishing team was on hand. What to improve your
gravel spawning beds? Free kit was loaned and sometimes even a team to do
it. Want to do some river improvement works? A bankside chat, some minimal
paperwork and off you go. Weed cutting? The EA had their own boats and
skilled operators. Spotted something odd about the water quality? I’ll be
there in the hour would be the response to your worried call.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">All this, and much, much more has
disappeared in the space of two decades as the EA has become increasingly
desk based, bureaucratic, process driven and remote from the everyday lives
of angling folk. The few things they actually have to do they have
contracted out to such bodies as the paramilitary wing of the Angling Trust
for fishing licence enforcement and River Trusts who often have values and
aspirations that don’t entirely accord with the needs of recreational
fishing.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Now, I do not want to throw every EA
employee under the bus. On the lower Itchen we have a fantastic guy who is
all over the poaching epidemic. Others are helpful and kind but you often
get the feeling that they are sinking into the mire that is the EA decision
making process or bamboozled by frequent personnel changes – a stint at the
EA is a useful CV builder so many young recruits, who I would add are
rarely anglers, soon move on. None of this has been helped by the EA
eagerly adopting remote working post pandemic. Last year I met with a new
member of the Flood Defence team who, three months into the job, was still
to meet another member of his team in person!</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Ultimately all leadership comes from
above and the side lining of fishing as part of the EA brief is amply
demonstrated by the Annual Report. In the most recent version, the Chair’s
Foreword and the Chief Executive statement, mention angling not at all. The
'What We Do' section is also an equally recreational fishing free zone. In
fact, fish do not get much of a mention at all in the 186 pages, largely
lumped under the heading of wildlife.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">As our rivers become increasingly
degraded by sewage, agricultural pollution and abstraction Britain’s 2.5
million anglers deserve one of two things: a seat at the table and a voice
within the Environment Agency or an alternative statutory body that
chooses to embrace our sport.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><b><span style="color: #556b34; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 16.5pt;">Blue space thinking</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Do you want me to tell you what we
all overwhelmingly are, according to the latest research? Well, we are
white, married or in a cohabiting relationship, with no disability, in
employment, with a household income above £25,000, do not smoke but do
drink alcohol.</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">How do I know this, aside from the
obvious? It is thanks to a research paper<i> Mental Health and Recreational
Angling in UK Adult Males: A Cross-Sectional Study </i>recently published
by the science journal<i> Epidemiologia </i>(</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001EB3ZirhbHlyvgCdJEYTC9ouIPPZ2enwLUx2op1FVB8r_dsb6k1vuEpRiC7ka_S6vQUjYqV0KNLAhQqliGmXBSQNt3gGTeycKgdsQFs22fLiLd3Yu55Mo5sl8Jb1LSGuW_aACWXQYgIZMptUG7JQLnmB0pkPrt3KPQmR1u95NYSI=&c=76mVXZjk4XrWlpC2TK8MuzVq8YuPZGMCGmg1O3VdUv1XwI2pfxVYfw==&ch=2HfoxQ-WsRXIncrlJ2IMC7bIG5MVNE5g0gwwsiqekT2YInN_yHfmRQ==" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">read it here</span></a></span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">)
that concluded that regular anglers were less likely to suffer with
depression and anxiety. It also indicated a clear relationship that the
more you fished the better your mental health.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">I do not think there is anything
particularly ground breaking about this research though to be fair to the
scientists most evidence presented in the past tended to be anecdotal
rather than empirical. To improve on this, they surveyed anglers via
the social media feeds and emailing lists of retailer Angling Direct and
mental health charity Tackling Minds which elicited 1792 responses, only 40
of which (2.2%) were women which is disappointingly low.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">However, I suspect the lack of female
participation might have something to do with the sampling as the vast
majority of the respondents would have come via Angling Direct a
predominately coarse fishing focussed business the discipline in which
female participation is at its lowest. A Fishing Breaks survey would be
more like 8% female participation for regulars and 15% for first year fly
fishers.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The paper also usefully pulls
together similar research from a 2012 Sport England survey and also from
Western Australia which concludes that we fish to relax, whilst enjoying
the challenge with a modicum of physical activity in the vicinity of what
the researchers call ‘blue spaces’, or what you and I call water.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The one bit of data I did wonder
about was the suggestion that we are a band of 1.25 million, so 2% of the
UK population. This seems to me low, bearing in mind that around a million
fishing licences are sold each year in England and Wales with it very
likely that many people, especially infrequent participants, fail to buy
one. Likewise, Scotland and Northern Ireland are not included in the
licence count and nor are sea anglers, where no licence is required. Add to
that a 2015 study that concluded that the participation rate for
recreational angling in industrialised countries is 11% one does start to
wonder why the UK could possibly be such an outlier. A 2021 report put the
value of spending on freshwater fishing at £1.7 billion which, if we are to
accept the 1.25 million figure, equates to £1,360 spend per angler per year
which strikes me as high representing, as it does, 5% of pre-tax median
salary. </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">So, let us do a bit of math: assume
5% participation (probably on the low side) in Scotland and Northern
Ireland with a combined population of 7.4 million. Take the mid-point
estimate of regular sea anglers that is between 550,000-750,000. Assume 50%
of English and Welsh anglers are non-licence buyers. That brings us to a
shade over 2.5 million which feels to me, closer to reality.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><b><span style="color: #556b34; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 16.5pt;">Fishing Cottages 2024</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Wake. Fish. Sleep. Repeat. Our
fishing cottages and huts are now online for 2024 bookings, with the full
roster including the stylish Kingfisher Lodge back for next year plus 2023
Christmas and New Year weeks.</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001EB3ZirhbHlyvgCdJEYTC9ouIPPZ2enwLUx2op1FVB8r_dsb6k1vuEs_RfMHZYQd6v88kJHduWjFf5mZJxOy_iRCB8P4AbrH1dy4HFGwL0H-sKfxTJ3bVJJXjr9cxc968TCExBmzJe-rIwu4damBkhXA6-Ij1iNUj-eaKGB-qp1U=&c=76mVXZjk4XrWlpC2TK8MuzVq8YuPZGMCGmg1O3VdUv1XwI2pfxVYfw==&ch=2HfoxQ-WsRXIncrlJ2IMC7bIG5MVNE5g0gwwsiqekT2YInN_yHfmRQ==" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Hemsworth Huts - River
Allen, Dorset</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Three and four night stays with all
wild, wading beat. Two huts for one to three adults, plus a tent option.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001EB3ZirhbHlyvgCdJEYTC9ouIPPZ2enwLUx2op1FVB8r_dsb6k1vuEpRiC7ka_S6v8efdFYFkn6E3F2k6smM-DabBXFvU1dw20KQfLIYa3yun8NqYGKzl17zONj66tneUcwdi7f2LP44eNR9WMb0EwiNmpCISNJAYVEpoW3A09EU=&c=76mVXZjk4XrWlpC2TK8MuzVq8YuPZGMCGmg1O3VdUv1XwI2pfxVYfw==&ch=2HfoxQ-WsRXIncrlJ2IMC7bIG5MVNE5g0gwwsiqekT2YInN_yHfmRQ==" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Ilsington Lodge – River
Frome, Dorset</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Three and seven nights Sleeps six in
three bedrooms. Also available for grayling October-March, including and
Christmas and New Year.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001EB3ZirhbHlyvgCdJEYTC9ouIPPZ2enwLUx2op1FVB8r_dsb6k1vuEswRJ3aVHqB982QEcbyUE40h6Lasccry0KxHdl9rMiSxcKkSInBcohrSJJpmF1FpYSbeVfxKtQrlwkKGR4xpSxcHE_-3YOkmY1erZeZ6YQmE3rX46ZTfyioeFxpKxkPoMQ==&c=76mVXZjk4XrWlpC2TK8MuzVq8YuPZGMCGmg1O3VdUv1XwI2pfxVYfw==&ch=2HfoxQ-WsRXIncrlJ2IMC7bIG5MVNE5g0gwwsiqekT2YInN_yHfmRQ==" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Kingfisher Lodge - River
Avon, Wiltshire</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Seven day rental with six days
fishing. Sleeps four. </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001EB3ZirhbHlyvgCdJEYTC9ouIPPZ2enwLUx2op1FVB8r_dsb6k1vuErEKOGmI2wZTteQKfmu7c5fyWB07wcW7qLeK_cpMeeKmg3Ce1LCjb9bZOGY4iGH2JhObiCpFeBukSWgOkZV4FFz0tSxYovtzH-YV6AXzLHaoSeW7fT3_6ww=&c=76mVXZjk4XrWlpC2TK8MuzVq8YuPZGMCGmg1O3VdUv1XwI2pfxVYfw==&ch=2HfoxQ-WsRXIncrlJ2IMC7bIG5MVNE5g0gwwsiqekT2YInN_yHfmRQ==" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Lock Keepers Cottage – River
Itchen, Hampshire</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Three night weekends and full week
stays. Sleeps seven in four bedrooms. </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="" target="_blank"><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Also available for grayling October-March, including Christmas and
New Year.</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001EB3ZirhbHlyvgCdJEYTC9ouIPPZ2enwLUx2op1FVB8r_dsb6k1vuEjn_8_Oo3rWJTXioXT2yBeLsWFxFbmqQ0IT7ti7rnv959LqATFkzki4b7HjxK3kaDqQUS4y3HXN21Wbts6QDcXT0ia6Zy6Uiv1baQaqz4n2fQTLt8UJmdnXV4IF2V_wiRg==&c=76mVXZjk4XrWlpC2TK8MuzVq8YuPZGMCGmg1O3VdUv1XwI2pfxVYfw==&ch=2HfoxQ-WsRXIncrlJ2IMC7bIG5MVNE5g0gwwsiqekT2YInN_yHfmRQ==" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Croisy-sur-Andelle
- River Andelle, Normandy, France</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Seven day breaks with fishing each day
April-October. Sleeps twelve in five bedrooms. </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The normal random
collection of questions inspired by the date, events or topics in the
Newsletter. It is just for fun with answers at the bottom of the page.</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">1)</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"> </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">What
did American oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller achieve on this day in
1916?</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">2)</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"> </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">What
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">3)</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"> </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Golf’s
Ryder Cup is named after which person?</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Have a good weekend. Go Europe (with
apologies to all my American readers)</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"></span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">!</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Best wishes,</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Founder &
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<p><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">1)</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 7.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"> </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">He
became the world's first billionaire.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">2)</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 7.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"> </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Ellipsoidal<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">3)</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 7.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"> </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Samuel
Ryder, a successful English garden seed entrepreneur, golf enthusiast, and
golf promoter who in 1926 conceived the idea for a match between British
and American professional golfers and donated the gold Ryder Cup trophy
that will be presented in Rome on Sunday.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</div>Life of a Chalkstreamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00537310318259829331noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-152819559311493256.post-50937858246039718402023-09-15T13:44:00.005+01:002023-09-15T13:44:37.989+01:00An English Journey (with a bit of Wales)<p> </p><div align="center">
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Greetings!</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">I am sitting in the cool writing this, on the hottest day of
the year, at the round table at the very centre of Charles Cotton’s
Fishing Temple. The oak doors are open. Outside we are on the cusp of
autumn, that moment when leaves start to turn from pliant green to brittle
brown. The fall is still someway off but, despite the unseasonal heat, you
can sense change in the air.</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">A
blackbird is my sole company his melodic, whistling call percolating into
the stone room, For the most part he observes me from a nearby bush but,
every so often, he alights to the triple tier of the entrance steps to get
a better look at me, cocking his head sideways, to pretend with some
birdlike deceit that he is not looking at me. We both know he is.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">I would also like to pretend that my
moment was an exact facsimile of when Charles Cotton and Izaak Walton both
communed in this very building, built in 1674 by Cotton, a large and
wealthy owner in these parts of Derbyshire, to celebrate their combined
love of fishing. By this time <i>The Compleat Angler,</i> originally
published in 1653, was already into its fifth edition, with the original
thirteen chapters expanded to twenty one with Cotton adding the fly fishing
sections. It would go on to be the second most reprinted book of all time behind
the St James Bible.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Unfortunately, 21<sup>st</sup> century
intrusions make it hard to exactly replicate the days of our angling
forebears as, at 90 second intervals, at twenty five thousand feet the
engines of huge aircraft bound for North America scream as they execute a
sharp and rising turn to the west. I stand up to close doors, the heavy,
cast iron hinges swinging the thick wood into the stone frame with satisfying
precision. The blackbird gives me a dirty look as I do so but the closure
does the job; as I return to the table three and a half centuries of
silence envelop me.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">‘Study to be quiet’. So wrote Walton so I
did just that within the four walls, each as thick as your arm is long. The
Temple is a perfectly square building. Not huge at maybe fifteen feet it
each direction covered by a steep, four sided roof which is ‘tiled’ with
slates hewn from the local limestone rock topped by a fish weathervane on a
square pillar with a sundial on each face etched with the intertwined CWC
initials of Cotton. Inside it is surprisingly bright and airy, with the
rafters exposed to the full extent of the tall ceiling and similarly tall
stone mullioned lead light windows in every wall. The floor is worn by age
and use, but the square stones still sit in the regular fashion as dressed
by those masons so many centuries ago. In one corner sits an open
fireplace, spilling out ash with a surround, again stone, that sports the CWC
motif in each corner.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Are we exaggerating in calling this a
Temple? I think not. It is a temple to our sport that has survived wars,
plagues and insurrections. As Tennyson wrote of streams, men may come and
men may go but I go on forever. Such is our pursuit of fish. I hope sometime
in the late 24<sup>th</sup> century, another three and a half centuries on
from now, an equally daft but dedicated cohort such as our own will
still sit in wonder at Cotton’s Fishing Temple.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Walton & Cotton</span></i><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">This Editor Notes: </span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">This
piece was originally destined for my <i>Trout & Salmon</i> column.
However, in the early evening last Friday I had a call from the editor
Andrew Flitcroft. Now, late calls usually mean one of two things: you’ve
missed the deadline or someone is threatening to sue. I have had both.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="ql-cursor"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"></span></span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">However,
this call was of the third type – you’re fired! Now to be fair to Andrew
when <i>Trout & Salmon</i> changed hands earlier in the year, I said
that if a columnist cull was required, I would willingly stand aside; six
years and 71 columns being a fair crack. Well, if you put your head in a
noose expect to be hung and so, as the magazine ‘is going in a different
direction’, the trapdoor was released from beneath me.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Temple Catch Record Book</span></i><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><b><span style="color: #556b34; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 16.5pt;">An unlikely place for a chalkstream</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">My visit to the Temple was part of a
triangular road trip to the outermost reaches of the Fishing Breaks empire
which started in the Yorkshire Wolds at Driffield Beck.</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The flat, farming landscape, more akin to
the fens than the southern chalkstream landscape always strikes me as an
unlikely place for a river as lovely as the Driffield Beck which you can
make sound even less appealing by pointing out that it is a tributary of
the River Hull, eventually spilling into the Humber Estuary.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Andrew Dixon - Mulberry
Whin owner</span></i><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">But north-east English caricatures aside,
if you did not know any better you could easily mistake it for Hampshire’s
best – clear, fast and with a verdant growth of the all-important <i>ranunculus</i>
in quantities I have rarely seen anywhere else in recent years. As I looked
at it with owner/farmer Andrew Dixon, the second generation custodian, I
could not put my finger on what was wrong. It was only after we had walked
almost all the river that I twigged what was missing: the wretched blanket
weed which is an unwanted feature of most rivers by late summer, that
straggly, filamentous weed that thrives when flows reduce and the phosphate
count shoots up. </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Of course, there is a downside to all
this good weed – it needs to be cut. Andrew, ever the resourceful Yorkshire
farmer, has eschewed one of our fancy southern weed boats for his own
dingy, battery powered contraption. He tells me it is his favourite thing
for a summer 4am start to whirr up and down the river, with a flask of
coffee, taking in the dawn until the batteries run out and the farming day
kicks in.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><b><span style="color: #556b34; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 16.5pt;">Where are you Mr. Barbel?</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><b><span style="color: #556b34; font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif; font-size: 16.5pt;"></span></b><b><span style="color: #355635; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt;"> </span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">From east to west the various contortions
of the M6, M54 and A49 took me to the border with Wales and the River Wye
to meet my old friend John Bailey who was taking a few days out from
filming the sixth (or maybe seventh I lose count ….) series of <i>Mortimer
& Whitehouse Go Fishing</i>.</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">I am sure you all know it by now but from
the outset John has been the Fishing Consultant to the series. It is he who
scouts out the locations and lines up the fish (or not!) for the camera. It
has now really become quite the operation, with each episode requiring
a three day shoot and a crew of eighteen, plus reconnaissance visits
by John and the production team.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="ql-cursor"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">But I was not there for any of that but
rather a catch up with John and the chance to fill in a blank of my record book
with a barbel. John has three lovely sections of the Wye just above and
below Hay-on-Wye. This provides him with the chance to boast that he will
catch you a barbel before lunch in England and another in Wales after
lunch.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Sadly, we only had time to fish one swim
on one section and I was to be denied any sort of pre or post prandial
barbel with just Mr Chub coming to visit my boile* in the twenty minutes we
actually spent fishing before the midday sun, on the second hottest day of
the year, drove us off the river and out of our waders with me heading home
and John to more televisual creations.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">*John has a particular dislike for the
term ‘boile’ and offers a prize (as yet unspecified) to anyone who can come
up with a better name. John also has some insightful thoughts on canoeists,
kayakers and rafters which I will bring you in the wider context of wild
swimming and other rivers next time</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Constantia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The normal random
collection of questions inspired by the date, events or topics in the
Newsletter. It is just for fun with answers at the bottom of the page.</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">1) What is a gimmer?</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">2) Who landed on the Galapagos
Islands on this day in 1835?</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span class="ql-cursor"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">3) How long is
the English/Welsh border? a) 120 miles b) 160 miles c) 200
miles d) 240 miles.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Have a good weekend and enjoy the
rugby whoever your team might be.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Best wishes,</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</div>Life of a Chalkstreamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00537310318259829331noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-152819559311493256.post-59193551638137104802023-09-15T13:43:00.001+01:002023-09-15T13:43:14.034+01:00National Trust reprieve fishing at Mottisfont Abbey<p> </p><div align="center">
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Greetings!</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">I bring you good news. Or what I hope
will end up as good news. After a concerted write-in by many of you to the
National Trust (huge thanks all), a mention on prime time television and a
letter in <i>The Spectator</i> it seems that news of what was happening at Mottisfont
Abbey at a local level has filtered all the way up the food chain to the
highest levels of the Trust.</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The headline is that fly fishing is
to return to Mottisfont Abbey. We know this not because of any public
announcement but because the replies sent to all that wrote in are clearly
singing from the same song sheet.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">In summary, the National Trust will
be putting the fishing rights out to tender later this year with a view to
resuming fishing next year on a non-stocked basis within a wilder management
regime with the aim of allowing other activities to happen alongside the
fishing interests. </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">F M Halford</span></i><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Frankly, this more than I could have
hoped for. Of course, I might disagree with some of the Trust management
decisions but ultimately the river does belong to them so they have a
perfect right to manage as they see fit. However, in their wider duty to
allow those that love fly fishing and all its heritage to still fish in the
footsteps of Frederick Halford they have done what is the right thing.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">I am in correspondence with the
person at the Trust who has overall responsibility for fishing policy at a
national level so I will keep you posted.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">LATE NEWS </span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Though
I am delighted to bring you the news of Mottisfont Abbey it does come with
a note of caution as I have heard that the National Trust at Wallington
House in Northumberland are ceasing fly fishing on the River Wansbeck with
immediate effect with no reason given.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"></span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">I have seen the email
correspondence between the leaseholders of 23 years and the National Trust
which follows a similar pattern to that I experienced with long periods of
non-communication, frequent changes of personnel and then a decision that
comes out of the blue without any explanation as to why that decision has
been made even though the email that delivers the <i>coup de grace</i>
acknowledges the exemplary nature of the leaseholder as tenant. Just to rub
salt into the wound the estate manager then concludes by inviting the now
ex-leaseholder to become a volunteer on the estate!</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><b><span style="color: #556b34; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 16.5pt;">The great river greenwash</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Recently there has been something of
a gold rush to buy river assets for purposes other than fishing with the
rise of trading in nitrate and phosphate credits. The theory went that you
used a floodplain as a pollution ‘sink’ which house builders could buy as
an offset to allow planning permission to be granted. </span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Frankly, I was pretty unhappy with
what I saw as a cynical work around to UK and EU legislation enabled by the
secretive quango, Natural England. Essentially, nobody was resolving the
issue of nitrate and phosphate pollutants – the trading simply represented
a giant sweeping-under-the-carpet exercise with plenty of jiggery pokery to
boot. I heard tell of pig farms closing to take advantage of the cash
bonanza only to reopen a few fields away, ready to repeat the same trick
sometime soon.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">By coincidence over the weekend
someone asked me, setting aside my personal views, what I thought of the
offset scheme as an investment. Frankly, I am no financial advisor so I
repeated what a local land agent had told me: this is only for the most
sophisticated of investor i.e. very risky. But I did add, with great
prescience as it turns out, beware the Ministerial pen that, at a stroke,
could wipe out the whole industry. And, so it seems, that is exactly what
Michael Gove did on Tuesday when he effectively abolished the EU and UK
legislation that was driving the need for offset credits.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Am I happy with the change? I think,
judging by all comments by the River Trusts, ecology <i>agent provocateurs</i>
and the great and the good of the greenery industry, I might be alone in
saying I welcome Michael Gove’s decision. I have no desire for more houses
in the wrong places but frankly offset credits were greenwashing writ
large. Yes, we were going to get a few more wetlands but it failed to
address the root of the issue that farming and poor sewage treatment will
continue to produce ever more nitrates and phosphates. Both need to be
reformed. </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Agricultural practices that produce
such pollutants need to be legislated out of existence with more stick than
carrot. If we want to build more houses, is it not time that we forced
developers to harvest rain and build their own sewage plants rather than add
more capacity to the already underinvested and aging water industry
infrastructure?</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><b><span style="color: #556b34; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 16.5pt;">That was the month we call August</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">My mother always used to complain
that I obsessed about rain. Too much. Too little. Wrong time. Wrong place.
I am not sure I was entirely that negative for I am not so dumb as to not
recognise when you’ve been dealt of good hand. This year has, to take the
poker analogy a bit further, turned up a straight flush for the biggest pot
of your life.</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">I’ve certainly never lived through a
summer with such full streams. I know it has been hard on outside events
and my farming friends tell me they will be setting new records with both
the earliest start to harvest and possibly the latest finish. I even
chanced upon a hay cutting last week; the estate manager and I wondered how
this June event had become a late summer thing. It wasn’t going to be
very good hay ……</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The rainfall stats say it all with
the south experiencing precisely double the normal rainfall through July
and running at 20% ahead for the past year. Of itself an extra fifth might
not sound a lot but it is in weather speak. Think back to last year and all
the hardships caused by a drop of just 10% below the average.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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draw winner John Pickett who fished Middleton Estate on the River Test in
collecting Nigel Nunn’s September collection. Next month the October winner
will receive a Mayfly selection to squirrel away in anticipation of 2024
and after that we will have the Annual Draw with everyone in with
a chance of Nigel’s amazing special collection that he has put
together for me. It will probably be too good to ever really use for
something merely as important as fishing.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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selection. Below: Nigel conducting essential research.</span></i><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The normal random
collection of questions inspired by the date, events or topics in the
Newsletter. It is just for fun with answers at the bottom of the page.</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">1)</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Which
Irish band released their first record on this day in 1979?</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">2)</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Who
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<p><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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was the National Trust founded? a)1895 b)1925 c)1955 d)
1985</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">We were all
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Honourable Michael Gove MP<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</div>Life of a Chalkstreamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00537310318259829331noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-152819559311493256.post-41006088595515524612023-08-19T09:31:00.004+01:002023-08-19T09:31:28.233+01:00In God We Trust. The National Trust less so ......<p> </p><div align="center">
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Greetings!</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">I<b> wish I had not had cause to
write about the National Trust and the cessation of fishing at
Mottisfont Abbey last time but it was, at least, gratifying to receive so
many emails of support. Thank you. It was also a taste of more to come with
<i>The Spectator</i> running the cover article last week entitled Country Strife
where William Moore wrote about the covert campaign against field sports.
Unfortunately, it went to press before the Mottisfont Abbey news broke but
I have followed up with a letter in <i>The Spectator</i> this week.</b></span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The article has prompted the Angling
Trust to seek a meeting with the National Trust to highlight Angling Trust
concerns over the National Trust attitude to angling in general and the
situation at Mottisfont Abbey in particular.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">In addition, we have caught the eye
of Restore Trust, a new campaign group who believe the National Trust
cannot ‘afford the distraction of ephemeral trends and political activism.’
I think the cancelling of fly fishing at its historic home fall full square
into this category. I have spoken with Restore Trust and this is the
playbook to maybe roll back the angling ban.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The Spectator 12 August
2023</span></i><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Firstly, sign up to the Restore Trust
newsletter. It is free and will keep you abreast of the campaign. Here
is the link <a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001G3Flvpqpay11zzdPpltLWSg0xrkAai3N501L341NKyfut8GmB1RX3Z0mWQI59P1Nf_SFd5aV-mP0G3rdaXEJSUTxxmhVBTAnIJU3e52WHVMwPoBJ2p5utkyQ1lrjxD4_RDAyDOJleGK2rRrG8xnWA6-VQSSQ8YqOEnnkdFbBrj-LNc_g4PVtuA==&c=vjTDue48j7bt7AwWU4aq42IQx6VYfMmXvwOqt42Y7oPcG947eaEYNA==&ch=0GLnlnQ6Iy3Yg9EHOoV3fdqWkqSeuvxF5HlQgpTIqGmI6tek5W8Fkw==" target="_blank">https://www.restoretrust.org.uk/join-us-restore-trust</a></span><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></u><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Secondly, if you are a National Trust
member (1 in 11 of the UK population are) be prepared to vote for the
Restore candidates in the upcoming Council elections. Ballot papers will go
out in September; the Restore newsletter will keep you abreast of developments<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Thirdly, if you are not a National
Trust member you have until 26/August to join to be eligible for the 2023
Council elections.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Finally, do write to the National
Trust, especially if you are a member. I know it is tempting to tear up
your membership card (I did on the hunting issue) but it takes you out of
the game. Here are some contact details depending on your preferred writing
route.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Vicky Fletcher General Manager Mottisfont Abbey, Mottisfont
Lane, Romsey SO51 0LP <a href="mailto:vicky.fletcher@nationaltrust.org.uk" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">vicky.fletcher@nationaltrust.org.uk</span></a></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">René Olivieri Chair The National Trust, Kemble Drive,
Swindon, Wiltshire, SN2 2NA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Harry Bowell, Director of Land and Nature <a href="mailto:harry.bowell@nationaltrust.org.uk" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">harry.bowell@nationaltrust.org.uk</span></a>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">If you wish to remind yourself of
some of the issues <a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001G3Flvpqpay11zzdPpltLWSg0xrkAai3N501L341NKyfut8GmB1RX3Z0mWQI59P1N_H5JUGiL6YHFT6FXFlfSruJB9FfH-fgkVPrd5u91CdKzavNk_buIiQzWB9HXLWdz6yc_G914EGQoP_EeejbI3w==&c=vjTDue48j7bt7AwWU4aq42IQx6VYfMmXvwOqt42Y7oPcG947eaEYNA==&ch=0GLnlnQ6Iy3Yg9EHOoV3fdqWkqSeuvxF5HlQgpTIqGmI6tek5W8Fkw==" target="_blank">here is the link</a> to my Cultural vandalism article.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><b><span style="color: #556b34; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 16.5pt;">When otters attack</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The papers last week carried news of
an otter attack in Montana, USA when three float tubing women were attacked
by a single otter whilst floating down the Jefferson River. The women
escaped the otter by leaving the river where, having called 911, two were
treated on the bank whilst the other was helicoptered to hospital.</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The general consensus is that this
was an unusual event to which I would agree. In all my considerable
research for <i>The Otters’ Tale</i> I came across very few incidents of
otter aggression to humans. Admittedly there are extremes – a keeper in a
South American zoo was mauled to death by Giant River Otters, often
referred to as the river wolves, who can grow to six foot in length and
sixty pounds in weight which are the world’s largest otters. </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="ql-cursor"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"></span></span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Also,
famously, the keeper in charge of the otters used in the filming of <i>A
Ring of Bright Water</i> lost a finger. I must admit the latter story did
rather play on my mind when I went to meet, and hold, and hand feed, a real
life otter for a photo shoot to promote <i>The Otters’ Tale</i> but pretty
soon I learnt that, as with horses, it is not the hand they crave but the
food it holds.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Forest Wildlife Centre</span></i><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">In fact, in going back centuries, I
found absolutely no reports of European otters ever attacking or injuring a
person. Indeed, they are not that keen on fighting each other, or for that
matter, other animals such as cats, dogs or foxes. Flight not fight is most
definitely the preferred otter lifestyle option.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><b><span style="color: #556b34; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 16.5pt;">Are we being taken for mugs?</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span class="ql-cursor"><b><span style="color: #556b34; font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif; font-size: 16.5pt;"></span></b></span><b><span style="color: #355635; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt;"> </span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Back in December our good friends at
Ofwat announced £7.1m of funding for CaSTco, the awkward acronym for the
equally awkwardly named Catchment Systems Thinking Cooperative. This month
the Wye & Usk Foundation (WUF) became the first catchment to be part of
the scheme that seeks ‘to revolutionise the way crucial data about England
and Wales’ water environment is gathered and shared, in particular on the
health of the nation’s rivers.’</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">In the press release the WUF talk of
four pillars to the initiative with farm interventions to tackle pollution
at source, citizen science to collect and share data, monitoring the
most damaging pollutants such as flea treatments and data collection that
will be available for public consumption. The intent of CaSTco is, and I
quote,</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">“.. that by collaborating with the
Rivers’ Trusts, and the many other organisations involved in CaSTCo, we can
influence NRW, EA and government policy. We aim to rebuild trust and
increase confidence of local people, and through community involvement and
transparency inspire public value of rivers and water.”</span></i><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">My initial thought was wow, that is
great. Hundreds, possibly thousands, of dedicated river lovers spreading
out across the two nations to gather the evidence with which to cudgel
government to bring the water industry into line. But then I got angry.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Really? When did monitoring the
health of our rivers suddenly become our job? What exactly are Defra
(annual budget £4.6 billion), the Environment Agency (£1.65 billion),
Natural England (£261 million) and Ofwat (£31 million), with over 25,000
employees between them, exactly doing with six billion of our money and a
huge arsenal of regulatory and legislative weaponry?</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Much though I admire those who have
thrown themselves into CaSTco it does feel to me that we are being taken
for mugs. It is no irony that the worse-than-hopeless Ofwat,
enablers-in-chief of the most egregious behaviour by the water companies,
are funding this scheme. It strikes me as perfect cover for them. I suspect
they secretly hope that the citizen science will eventually run out of
steam and, having bought themselves a few years of respite from criticism,
they will live to fight another day. </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><b><span style="color: #556b34; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 16.5pt;">The rich are not so different</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">You often hear it said, and read it
written, that the top property tiers are immune to recession and the
travails of the wider economy. Frankly, it is nonsense. Though sadly I have
never been buyer or seller in that rarefied atmosphere I have watched
enough marquee properties change hands to know that the property barometer
is as equally sensitive at £10m as it is at one tenth that value.</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">If you doubt my word, The Watch
Estate (pictured) on the River Test is a case in point. It was first
offered for sale at £2m back in May but this week was reduced to £1.75m.
Whether that represents a bargain or not depends on your point of view and
situation, but it certainly indicates a direction of travel.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Details via agents </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001G3Flvpqpay11zzdPpltLWSg0xrkAai3N501L341NKyfut8GmB1RX3Z0mWQI59P1Nkh1bicxAluzx9lxQ4pVP2qm2D_Vkemj5bzoi1Nlj4wLGc5JpC79YEJMsMYn41cTiR7hSxW0v38JyiaunttNlLlYu4pK2xXcfwZMAgZD7O5h_jHahY4__JGfzef6-Zm_8BXYwXfGvyy9V_iwaOIAXT5gB_6eQBe2XvBr25Nepx4-F_fulLq318rNpDZuZ8BMpUBNIYu-jhVvtdbkGBwcQDQ==&c=vjTDue48j7bt7AwWU4aq42IQx6VYfMmXvwOqt42Y7oPcG947eaEYNA==&ch=0GLnlnQ6Iy3Yg9EHOoV3fdqWkqSeuvxF5HlQgpTIqGmI6tek5W8Fkw==" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Knight Frank</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The Watch Estate, River
Test, Chibolton</span></i><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Main river on left,
carrier on right and lakes in between</span></i><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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collection of questions inspired by the date, events or topics in the
Newsletter. It is just for fun with answers at the bottom of the page.</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">1) Who was accidentally shot (and
survived) whilst filming <i>Ned Kelly</i> in Australia on this day in
1967?</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">2) What is a hoplophile?</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span class="ql-cursor"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">3) In which country
and in which year was the first Women’s World Cup staged?</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Have a good weekend - go England!</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Best wishes,</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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person who enjoys collecting and using firearms</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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1991. Won by USA</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Greeatings!</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">As many of you will know we had
eighteen happy years at Mottisfont Abbey, the spiritual home of modern day
fly fishing and the amazing Oakley Hut, built by none other than Frederick
Halford where he fished, held court and expounded on the merits of the dry
fly until his death shortly before the outbreak of World War One.</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Over those eighteen seasons I had a
close association with the Mottisfont Fly Fishing Club who were the
leaseholders to the four beats, three on the Test and one on the Dun.
During that time there were two renewals of the lease with the owners, the
National Trust, which allowed for fishing by the Club members and Fishing
Breaks clients six days a week, with a day set aside to rest the river and
for essential maintenance. </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The National Trust were never an easy
institution to deal with even though paying a king’s ransom of a rent.
Decision making is slow and the organisational structure, to put it
politely, opaque, with frequent changes of personnel. However, when it came
to the care of the river that they provided with an in-house river keeper,
I think it is fair to say it was a job well done. That is not to say we
always all agreed on everything: stocking levels and the ‘natural’ state of
the banks were frequent topics of discussion. But those were minor
frustrations in the general scheme of things for fishing where you walk in
history, part of a landscape barely changed since Halford’s time. On the
walls of his hut are photographs he took – the polymath that he was Halford
was an early adopter of colour photography and the images of the river from
the early 1900’s are almost a perfect facsimile of what you will see today.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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will see today if you like yoga; let me explain. With the benefit of
hindsight there was definitely a change of mood in the National Trust in
regard to their relationship with fishing after the pandemic. Long-time river
keeper, Neil Swift, who was furloughed for many, many months even though
fishing continued relatively unaffected by Covid, left and after a brief
stint by his replacement, the river keeping was taken on in an ad hoc basis
by the team of National Trust wardens who have many responsibilities
ranging across Hampshire and the New Forest.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">And so it was that when discussions
about the third lease renewal began towards the end of the 2022 trout
season (the lease officially expired 31 March 2023) the National Trust
dropped the bombshell: there was to be no more fish stocking in accordance
with a policy agreed by the Trust at a national level. It was made clear
that it was not up for discussion, regardless of the merits of such a
policy in relation to the chalkstreams or the slight absurdity that the
Main Mottisfont Abbey beat, where the opposite bank is in different
ownership, would continue to be stocked by others.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Cue sharp intake of breath. It is my
personal opinion that if you want to create a wild trout paradise then the
middle Test, that section from Stockbridge to Romsey is probably not the
best place to start. It was never bought into being for trout; in the three
thousand years or more since the wetlands were drained in the name of
farming to create what we now call the River Test, brown trout have only
reigned supreme for about two hundred years since the advent of
recreational fishing in the Victorian era. And even then, Mother Nature
needed a helping hand with stocking starting half a century before Halford
took the lease of the Mottisfont Abbey fishing in the 1890’s and continued
to stock himself. In fact, just behind the Oakley Hut you can still spy the
remnants of his fish rearing ponds.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">In good faith, the lease discussions
continued, albeit sporadically, to find a way to make this new policy work.
"Let’s suck it and see", I think was our general view; you never
know, it might turn out better than hoped. That was until the Trust
suggested they had an even more radical view on the overall management of
the river and its environs. It was never entirely clear to me what this
entailed and since the lease was not renewed I have not set foot on the
property since the end of last season, I cannot offer any personal insights
as to the current state of the place. However, thanks to an article in <i>The
Guardian</i> by Amy-Jane Beer on Monday this week, we can all, me
included, see the direction of travel.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><i><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">“Disembarking at the tiny Mottisfont and Dunbridge station,
I’m met by cheery painted cutouts of grayling and trout, schooling along
the platform fence: avatars of a celebrated river. But the welcome fades
fast as I join the Test Way and encounter a plethora of fences and signage
designed to keep walkers away from the very thing most people come here
for. I meet an agitated elderly man struggling to clean his hands because
he’d inadvertently touched a gate daubed with black anti-climb paint. By
the time I manage to (briefly) encounter the famously clear, bright chalk
water from a bridge, I’m starting to regret coming.</span></i><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><i><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The estate upstream is Mottisfont, owned by the National
Trust. There I meet Alex Olejnik for a tour of the four river beats
immortalised by the father of dry fly fishing, FM Halford. Alex is not what
you might expect a head river keeper on this hallowed water to be. She’s
been in post for 18 months, during which time her boss, Dylan Everett,
recommended she learn all she could about traditional fishery management,
then forget it, because things are changing here.</span></i><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><i><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Last year they stopped stocking fish, mowing banks, cutting
waterweed and removing fallen trees. In March, fishing was paused while the
river restored, and wild fish grew in number and size. Alex no longer
spends time gardening, provisioning huts with water and charcoal, or
cleaning up fishy barbecues. The only grass she’s mowed today was for a
yoga group, and they’re looking into opening up some stretches for
swimming.</span></i><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><i><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The banks are now thick with loosestrife, forget-me-not,
great willowherb, watermint, yarrow, hemp agrimony and vetch, and there’s
movement everywhere: clouded yellow, peacock, red admiral and gatekeeper
butterflies, tiny moths and beetles, dragonflies and damselflies. New
reedbeds have established. Bees nest in one of the thatched fishing huts.
There are tiddlers in the shallows and trout flickering faster than the eye
can follow over golden gravels between thick tresses of water crowfoot.</span></i><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><i><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">“It’s a challenge to find the right balance, but we’re
supposed to be a conservation and access organisation,” says Alex. “Fishing
is an important part of local heritage, and we hope there will be anglers
here again. But they’ll be sharing the river with more wildlife and more
people.”</span></i><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><i><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">I’m glad I came, after all.”</span></i><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">I agree with Alex – the National
Trust is indeed a conservation and access organisation. But it is also,
based on the Act of Parliament that bought it into being, an organisation
charged with preserving our cultural heritage. Abandoning two centuries of
fly fishing tradition at a stroke strikes me as an abdication of a
responsibility to preserve the birthplace of sport that is now practiced by
tens of millions worldwide who look to the River Test in the same way
that others do to Wimbledon for tennis or St Andrews for golf.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Let us take that analogy a step
further. Would anyone seriously suggest that the fairways and greens of St
Andrews be let to grow wild, the golf reduced to a narrow mown path between
tee and green? Of course not but, apparently, when it comes to fly fishing
such an act of cultural vandalism is absolutely fine based on what seems to
me a whim rather than any thought out strategy beyond some rewilding
fantasy.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><b><span style="color: #556b34; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 16.5pt;">What a difference a year makes</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Chalkstreams are sensitive souls;
this time last year with annual rainfall running at 90% of normal we were
on our knees. This year at 100% we are doing high fives, albeit sometimes
cursing the worst of the weather. You would not think that a 10% swing
would make such a difference but it is as much about the timing of the rain
as the quantum that determines the outcomes.</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">I did hear of somewhere in the UK
where July rainfall has been four times normal; we have not had anything
quite like that in the chalkstream regions but it is going to be pretty
well double the average, a contrast to June which was half the average. The
July river flow map drives this home with only a quarter of rivers at
Normal flow, the remainder either Above Normal (Avon/Test) Notably High
(Frome/Itchen) or Exceptionally High for the time of year.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><b><span style="color: #556b34; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 16.5pt;">And the winner is .......</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">I am pleased to be continuing to give
away bespoke flies from our vice king, Nigel Nunn. In keeping with the
tradition we have established this year our July winner Scott Amero, who
fished Shawford Park, will receive flies picked for August deployment.</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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collection of questions inspired by the date, events or topics in the
Newsletter. It is just for fun with answers at the bottom of the page.</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">1) The invention of which drink by a French Benedictine
monk is ascribed to this day in 1693?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">2) Which French chalkstream (pictured) rises in the wine
region of question one?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Founder &
Managing Director</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001UbNqvSSW_zzKf5xFBFxyaoDMD2VgeHEocit45aX30JpgMwGREtUskxUkqzZeMQNml6EXk61gX8dx9PLY-8Xca8sAU1djx9UBAd-st3OMpcY9-T5Bvx8pMkBHl6_6DZgRgpRYoQjzpbjWUSkTIAdokVrCxMVrW7z9&c=FRuWgG7FeYwrl2Fo-9MF3M1fpvWGlBDOwFenVFmXEljHNMmAOO2Q0Q==&ch=NXYWP1mibIxh9_0RrcCYH2sk3zrGFVmAEP--_DkKNIltSWiHsFlI_Q==" target="_blank"><span style="color: white; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">www.fishingbreaks.co.uk</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">1) Champagne<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">2) La Seine<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">3) France<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</div>Life of a Chalkstreamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00537310318259829331noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-152819559311493256.post-55320892298569142292023-08-19T09:28:00.005+01:002023-08-19T09:28:45.369+01:00My Museum of Fly Fishing<p> </p><div align="center">
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Greetings!</b></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The FT recently ran a piece on which
economic theories should best reside in the Museum of the Economy, which
got me thinking: what would I put in the Museum of Fly Fishing?</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Catch & Kill</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">This might be something of a
confession but I do not like to eat trout. Part of it emanates from the
belief that it is probably best, if you have good staff, not to eat them.
But, more truthfully, I was turned off trout in my teens when I worked at a
fish farm that bred fish for the table. Back then the pellets, which are
mostly soya these days, were made of rendered chicken. Not only did the
fish food stink but a gutted fish smelt of rotting chicken. So, probably
for many wrong reasons, I was an early adopter of catch and release.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Split cane rods</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">I am yet to see a tennis professional
reaching for a wooden racquet or Rory McElroy pulling a hickory shafted
club from his bag. Yes, I know there are some of you who are right now
mentally leaping to the defence of your 6ft split cane wand. That is not a fishing
rod; it is as much a rod as a fly swat is an elephant gun. You might cleave
to the belief that 19th century rod technology is better than its 21st
century counterpart but it simply is not.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Rod licence</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Will you be thrown in jail for
cycling without a licence? Will you be detained by enforcers in
paramilitary style garb for canoeing licence free on public waterways? If
you dangle a line off Brighton Pier will the long arm of the law deny you
mackerel for tea? Enough said. </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The fishing waistcoat/vest</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">These seem to be increasingly falling
out of favour to be supplanted by bum bags, necklaces and some strange
looking harnesses that look more like breast milking devices. With my guide
hat on it will take a lot for me to give up the waistcoat: the storage
possibilities are endless for spare rain jackets, glasses, first aid kits,
phones, enough tippet to stretch to the Moon and, of course, the obligatory
nine fly boxes. On my own I’ve got it down to a single lanyard and box, but
that is a whole different story.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Barbed hooks</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Goodbye. Forever. And hopefully,
double and treble hooks.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">New fly patterns</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Enough! Do we really need any more
fly patterns? I am pretty sure trout are not getting any smarter and Mother
Nature is not producing any new insects. I know all you fly tyers have a
God complex, always on the cusp of that never fail fly. But as the old
fable reminds us, hell is a fish every cast.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">If you have a nomination for the
Museum of Fly Fishing post it on social media or </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="mailto:simon@fishingbreaks.co.uk" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">email</span></a></span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> me. The best of
the nominations reprised next time.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><b><span style="color: #556b34; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 16.5pt;">Justice delayed is justice denied</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">As you might imagine it took enormous
restraint not to include the Environment Agency in my Museum; in fact, I
had resolved not to mention the EA at all this week but events rather
overtook my good intentions.</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Firstly, I was kindly sent a report
from the <i>Swindon Advertiser </i>that featured Clackers Brook. Unless you
live on the south-eastern outskirts of Melksham you have probably never
heard of Clackers Brook, an unremarkable two mile tributary of the Bristol
Avon. However, it is very illustrative of what is happening in southern
England where once backwater Wiltshire market towns such as Melksham are
growing faster than the capacity of their outdated sewage systems that date
back 50 years or more.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">As a result, and almost inevitably
due to underinvested infrastructure, Wessex Water faces three charges
relating to incidents that allegedly took place in 2018 regarding
unauthorised storm water and sewage discharges into Clackers
Brook. Now all credit to the EA for pursuing this prosecution which,
though clearly serious in the context of a small stream, must rate as one
of the smaller incidents they have to deal with. </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">However, and I am sure this is not
entirely the fault of the EA, how it is that this has taken five years to
come court? Actually, it will end up being far more that five years as this
is just the beginning of the process as Wessex Water did not enter a plea
and is to appear in Swindon Magistrates Court on 9 October for a case
management hearing. I am no expert of court procedures but that suggests to
me, assuming Wessex Water does not plead guilty, that it will be well into
2024, or possibly 2025, before a fine is levied or the company
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">And the problem most obviously with a
time lag of six or seven years is that though the body corporate takes the
rap the chances are that nobody much will care about what is effectively
ancient history. Of course, ‘lessons will be learnt’ but in all likelihood
those with fingerprints all over the crime will have long moved on. </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Justice delayed is no justice at all
as my friend at Upstream Dry Fly Howard Taylor will tell you whose
relentless campaigning against diesel spills into the lower Test has
finally registered one small victory, though no thanks to the EA
as, in this instance, it is Fish Legal who this week announced they
are bringing a private prosecution against Southern Water relating to
diesel pollution entering the River Test from a Southern Water outfall at
Nursling Industrial Estate near Southampton that has been allegedly
happening since 2021.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">It was not that the EA was unaware of
this. Howard had garnered much local media coverage on radio and TV, plus
Fish Legal had made the regulator aware back in March that they were
stepping in to take their own private prosecution against Southern Water in
the absence of any sign of effective EA regulatory action. You may read the
Fish Legal </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001RrDbUHtfXTCVpXUxaGV0wz2RDMix6sgS1oOrY_rvxYuyiepUxR8xcgwvF_2imhmpbOVnoOOgnHlwIYUPY4gkqlPqH7AZgLXN4mQSrpaxlgvbeLqme-AZWC1a24NUyQkKeCemcqcl_rEZzl9_tLm-_KzOF7axayG9QUZsieNO_DSxCklGrEWbLZTQt-O9FEkE-sJ4nRV7xCo79iVyHJBY7Chae2srQBHYFUFDhNAYS9jBJFHpeBF2ZA==&c=d5I1yLucaEU2bDsFiUFiZZb-fQIww7tkL7r-HKogzC8CySNE-zKaGA==&ch=pwXjaFB-zm5lcsuOVUkLLw04ykNdyXEtB21wA7XXYlya9WIdhf0sOA==" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">press release here</span></a></span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">
where they have helpfully compiled the list of shame that shows the
Environment Agency annual prosecution total falling from 2,271 in 2018 to a
barely credible 304 in 2022.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">So, there you have it: a regulatory
body tasked and financed by the taxpayer to prosecute wrongdoers that is
failing to do so on an epic scale. Or when it does a justice system that
grinds so slow that those same wrongdoers have long departed the scene of
the crime by the time the prosecution is completed. </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Does it have to be this way? Well,
no. In 2018 the government created the Information Commissioner’s Office to
deal with data breaches and cold calling who are able to turn around
enforcements in under a year, handing out millions in fines, including
£12.7m against Tik Tok. It can be done – it just takes political will and
an acceptance that unacceptable behaviour by corporations is just that –
unacceptable.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><b><span style="color: #556b34; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 16.5pt;">Dream fishing home for £13.5m</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">A mile of the River Itchen, a 10
bedroom mansion, squash court, swimming pool and three hole golf course all
in 59 acres can be yours for £13.5m. Shawford Park, known by many of you as
a regular Fishing Breaks beat for nearly 10 years, is up for sale with </span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001RrDbUHtfXTCVpXUxaGV0wz2RDMix6sgS1oOrY_rvxYuyiepUxR8xcgwvF_2imhmpWJPLjcEAlxUQr5EFnHRB45m8yzj9qIk5gIjOg1G6_dlSB2bSPssELnytACamC-U9N-Ui275s0b90OgSqj2mkTO84kljX2gwJQTeBWf2LUu-W__boC7ON9LBNZkNr4iEJ&c=d5I1yLucaEU2bDsFiUFiZZb-fQIww7tkL7r-HKogzC8CySNE-zKaGA==&ch=pwXjaFB-zm5lcsuOVUkLLw04ykNdyXEtB21wA7XXYlya9WIdhf0sOA==" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Savills</span></a></span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">.
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">If that is too rich for your tastes,
Bransbury Mill with 1.25 miles on the River Dever is still on the books of </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001RrDbUHtfXTCVpXUxaGV0wz2RDMix6sgS1oOrY_rvxYuyiepUxR8xcgwvF_2imhmpiZ0OC70BLoChhdvyWQHeqNYJxQdtiYx_k_NLL6ActmkShIibRUyQEOO8VBfN4_dwvMNYVllPIjd6Q1K6sdzvV3BZSVWl4sv9cWR987oCXm_9HP1DeJRKGVxPsqqkQEbchL_KA3itsWwaowxj4dhE4XQsU1Q294Rxc51sBm2L_1YVwRvbM4xoLoPV7HJD-Mv8au_yTYGnjbuBnRzWaPijOzH8NdftdBwJ&c=d5I1yLucaEU2bDsFiUFiZZb-fQIww7tkL7r-HKogzC8CySNE-zKaGA==&ch=pwXjaFB-zm5lcsuOVUkLLw04ykNdyXEtB21wA7XXYlya9WIdhf0sOA==" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Knight Frank</span></a></span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">
at £5.95m.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Many people ask for advice on what
outfit to buy as a first rod and reel. I don’t have any skin in the game
but for reasons of history and a convenient local store we have always used
Orvis outfits for the school at Nether Wallop Mill and guiding. I think it
is fair to say I probably own more 5 wt. outfits than any other living
person!</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Anyway, I thought you would like to
know our go-to outfit the 8.5ft 5 wt. Clearwater rod with a reel backing
and floating weight forward line is on sale at the moment. </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001RrDbUHtfXTCVpXUxaGV0wz2RDMix6sgS1oOrY_rvxYuyiepUxR8xcgwvF_2imhmpdTfArsiEJNGXjHji9aUGutXZAAH5k9OOn5GEK2NPvAs1QKvVt6tUZjkbJ3ntYnNgqLzPdI27ms9YttSGAjucPoMv5RG54sGsyM2GoFFtvltGqnjarDbVFpDSdVdtdDI7SNioSrXPxDEHfoL1Z3ee4DhVa-v42WCJDQxfE9lJTcw=&c=d5I1yLucaEU2bDsFiUFiZZb-fQIww7tkL7r-HKogzC8CySNE-zKaGA==&ch=pwXjaFB-zm5lcsuOVUkLLw04ykNdyXEtB21wA7XXYlya9WIdhf0sOA==" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Save £100 with Orvis </span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><b><span style="color: #556b34; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt;">Special Offers update</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Just a quick update on the current special offers:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001RrDbUHtfXTCVpXUxaGV0wz2RDMix6sgS1oOrY_rvxYuyiepUxR8xcgOooeVOXYgyX0CiEL7zpzAAeRk6X35yMtdGvVhjL_jO1BuFNwZt29lNFwLd-pGzCxyZTIUDiwbSaoSdGhiOOTHy-L7H4MhMOL-MMxkbFadNscl86DKYkv1-XYO1ZB8KESTLABniJdNO&c=d5I1yLucaEU2bDsFiUFiZZb-fQIww7tkL7r-HKogzC8CySNE-zKaGA==&ch=pwXjaFB-zm5lcsuOVUkLLw04ykNdyXEtB21wA7XXYlya9WIdhf0sOA==" target="_blank">Breach Farm – River Itchen </a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Half price for 2-4 Rods. Runs July 31-August 13. Was
£135/Rod. Now £67.50/Rod.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Two for the price of one. Runs July 17-31. Was £95/Rod. Now
£47.50/Rod<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Under 16’s go free<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Call 01264 781988 or <a href="mailto:info@fishingbreaks.co.uk" target="_blank">email</a> for beat
selection and advice<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">We at Fishing Breaks are not all
about trout all of the time. Our FDO (Fishing Diversity Officer) John
Bailey proves the unlikely belief that there is life beyond trout with one
of his recent guided days on the River Wye with five barbel, including this
10lb 4oz beauty that took 59 minutes to net and thirty plus chub.</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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guided days in Herefordshire, that feature some of the beats used in <i>Mortimer
& Whitehouse Gone Fishing</i> </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001RrDbUHtfXTCVpXUxaGV0wz2RDMix6sgS1oOrY_rvxYuyiepUxR8xcgwvF_2imhmpveGpVu4IemUjufHuCMyNKnoETu4mJiVwV-uXHE4C3lGLy6qo7iJoXiJgbkvx7vB9mbV1mv6dXjipus-lNL2T3qN88SSjXvAz3j4Gukvy4GA=&c=d5I1yLucaEU2bDsFiUFiZZb-fQIww7tkL7r-HKogzC8CySNE-zKaGA==&ch=pwXjaFB-zm5lcsuOVUkLLw04ykNdyXEtB21wA7XXYlya9WIdhf0sOA==" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">click here ...</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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would you be scared of?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</div>Life of a Chalkstreamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00537310318259829331noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-152819559311493256.post-82603315368062568692023-07-07T11:46:00.001+01:002023-07-07T11:46:47.742+01:00Rejoice or despair?<p> </p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout layout--1-column" data-cpeid="w-1688652185931-927" style="color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="column column--1 scale stack" data-cpeid="w-1688652185981-841" style="width: 680px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1688652186026-334" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e2f2f; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b>Greetings!</b></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;">I have been trying to decide, amidst of the news of water companies close to insolvency, whether this is something of which we should rejoice or despair. On the one hand you could argue it is the rightful comeuppance for what Conservative Prime Minister Edward Heath once termed the unacceptable face of capitalism. On the other, it might herald something infinitely worse where our barely unreasonable desire to have rivers full of clean and plentiful water, once again becomes a far, distant dream.</span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">I could expend much ink reciting the reasons for the current financial woes of the water industry but essentially it is a tale of a business that lost sight of its purpose. Capitalism is about product and profit. You make a product which you sell for a profit. However, somewhere in the thirty four years since privatisation the industry lost sight of that purpose as the financial engineers discovered that regardless of the merits of their product, they could still turn a healthy profit. In fact, seemingly the worse the product the more money they made.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout layout--1-column" data-cpeid="w-1688647977617-143" style="color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="column column--1 scale stack" data-cpeid="w-1688647977617-481" style="width: 680px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="image image--padding-vertical image--mobile-scale image--mobile-center" data-cpeid="w-1688647977617-652" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="image_container" style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px;" valign="top"><img alt="" class="image_content" data-image-content="" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/b34931e7001/38a4838e-3f66-4bc4-b003-c65fc2c74cf6.jpg?rdr=true" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="582" /></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout layout--1-column" data-cpeid="w-1688647977617-393" style="color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="column column--1 scale stack" data-cpeid="w-1688647977617-322" style="width: 680px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1688647977617-383" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e2f2f; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">But now the industry is in the death vice of an iron maiden of its own making as they are unable the push up the bill to the consumer to cover the four way whammy of rising interest rates, rising overheads, an increasing cost for environmental compliance, and in the case of many of them, swingeing fines for delivering the aforesaid terrible product.</span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">The huge irony of all this is that it could have all been so easily avoided had Ofwat, the industry regulator, acted on their own recommendations of the early 2000’s. It was around that time that the water companies, having begun life in the private sector as publicly traded entities on the London Stock Exchange, began to be taken private, the transition largely financed by pension and sovereign wealth funds who saw the investment in monopoly utilities as proving a safe, steady return. Ofwat warned against this, noting that loading the companies up with debt as the private finance business model demanded, would eventually end in tears. And tears we have many as Ofwat, having sounded the alarm bell, turned a deaf ear to go along for the ride as the enabler-in-chief as the rapacious water companies pretty well did what the hell they liked.</span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">So, what now? It interests me that, despite all the outrage, there seems little appetite for renationalising the water industry. Even Will Hutton, author of the New Labour playbook of the 1990’s The State We Are In wrote at the weekend that public ownership was not the answer. We do not have to look far to see why: in Scotland and Northern Ireland the industry remains in state control and Wales it is run on a not-for-profit basis and in none of those countries are the problems any less. For good or ill, whatever your political colours, it seems nobody has the appetite to tie up £250 billion in buying back a basket case.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">The private model of ownership can work; indeed, it has to work because it is the only game in town. The trick will be to find a way that allows for profit to be made from all those things we so badly need: a modern sewage system that can cope with a population of 70 million not the 50 million the current system was designed for. Water provision that is similarly resilient, capable of coping with the vagaries of the British climate without sucking dry our rivers.</span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">We need to give the water companies space to make money from what they are meant to do, rewarding productive investment whilst hammering miscreants. But that will take regulation of both the financial and environmental kind. Regulation that has been woefully inadequate for at least two decades. Ofwat and the EA should both hang their collective heads in shame – it is they who are responsible for the state we are in. </span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout layout--1-column" data-cpeid="w-1688647977618-705" style="color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="column column--1 scale stack" data-cpeid="w-1688647977618-724" style="width: 680px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="image image--padding-vertical image--mobile-scale image--mobile-center" data-cpeid="w-1688647977618-385" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="image_container" style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px;" valign="top"><img alt="" class="image_content" data-image-content="" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/b34931e7001/d988ca05-d1af-4ac3-9be1-b252bfae5791.jpg?rdr=true" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="607" /></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1688652916807-319" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e2f2f; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><p align="center" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Do Thames Water really think we all drank the Kool-Aid?</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout layout--1-column" data-cpeid="w-1688647977618-278" style="color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="column column--1 scale stack" data-cpeid="w-1688647977618-214" style="width: 680px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="divider" data-cpeid="w-1688647977618-224" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="divider_container" style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px;" valign="top" width="100%"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="divider_content-row" style="height: 1px; table-layout: fixed; width: 639.2px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" bgcolor="#5D7639" class="divider_content-cell" height="1" style="background-color: #5d7639; border-bottom-width: 0px; height: 1px; line-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/1101116784221/S.gif" style="display: block; height: 1px; width: 5px;" vspace="0" width="5" /></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout layout--1-column" data-cpeid="w-1688647977618-412" style="color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="column column--1 scale stack" data-cpeid="w-1688647977618-554" style="width: 680px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1688647977618-930" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e2f2f; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #556b34; font-size: 22px; font-weight: bold;">June: both wet and dry</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;">Most of Britain had been looking to the June skies in search of rain; for those of us who make our daily living from the chalkstreams quite the reverse as June came as a blessed relief as we could finally get our mowers out on previously sodden banks.</span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">As we enter July, I continue to believe that I’ve never come into the summer with the rivers so full which has been hard to explain to anyone sitting by a parched salmon river, though the river flow map vividly tells the same tale. At Bullington Manor on the Upper Test we are only now just starting to lift the hundred or so scaffolding boards we bought at the last minute to get you over otherwise impassable sections. </span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="image image--padding-vertical image--mobile-scale image--mobile-center" data-cpeid="w-1688649146205-832" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="image_container content-padding-horizontal" style="padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><img alt="" class="image_content" data-image-content="" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/b34931e7001/3a581b66-a9e0-4e63-bcf8-a0a90b72d790.jpg?rdr=true" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="577" /></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1688649142444-989" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e2f2f; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Though June was a record hot month, it was not a record dry month. We had about half the normal rainfall, but in aggregate we are still cycling a wet year with the three months to the end of May at 145% of long term average rainfall, 116% for sixth months and 111% for twelve months. It is that three month figure that cost me all those scaffold boards!</span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">As is the monthly tradition this year, the vice king Nigel Nunn has tied a tempting set of flies for the June feedback winner to use in July. Well done to Gavin Leathem fished Upavon Farm on the River Avon in early June – the flies are in the post.</span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">If you would like to complete a feedback form from a recent trip, </span><a href="https://fishingbreaks.co.uk/feedback.htm" style="color: blue; font-size: 18px;" target="_blank">click here</a></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout layout--1-column" data-cpeid="w-1688649889041-497" style="color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="column column--1 scale stack" data-cpeid="w-1688649889105-176" style="width: 680px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="image image--padding-vertical image--mobile-scale image--mobile-center" data-cpeid="w-1688649889165-484" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="image_container content-padding-horizontal" style="padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><img alt="" class="image_content" data-image-content="" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/b34931e7001/112b0944-b9d1-4a2c-beeb-c6e00c764881.jpg?rdr=true" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="612" /></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout layout--1-column" data-cpeid="w-1688647977618-538" style="color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="column column--1 scale stack" data-cpeid="w-1688647977618-816" style="width: 680px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="divider" data-cpeid="w-1688647977618-829" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="divider_container" style="padding-bottom: 9px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top" width="100%"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="divider_content-row" style="height: 1px; table-layout: fixed; width: 639.2px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" bgcolor="#5D7639" class="divider_content-cell" height="1" style="background-color: #5d7639; border-bottom-width: 0px; height: 1px; line-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/1101116784221/S.gif" style="display: block; height: 1px; width: 5px;" vspace="0" width="5" /></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout layout--1-column" data-cpeid="w-1688647977618-375" style="color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="column column--1 scale stack" data-cpeid="w-1688647977618-760" style="width: 680px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1688647977618-052" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e2f2f; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #556b34; font-size: 22px; font-weight: bold;">The suffering of a supermodel</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #355635; font-size: 24px; font-weight: bold;"></span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;">In June we embarked on a fishing photography shoot safari on the Dorset and Wiltshire streams. Over the years I have tried to combine a bit of fishing with a bit of photography but the truth is you end up doing both badly; if you want good photos you have to resign yourself to bad fishing.</span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">I had waited a while to get into the season before planning this date. The temptation is to head out in May but, despite the blandishments of Mayfly, it is not the best month for river photography. You might not notice it at the time but once you see the shots on screen the countryside still looks very raw. June, July and early August are absolutely the best months to capture the English countryside at its most glorious. After that the greenery doesn’t quite ping and a sort of dustiness starts to settle that dulls out even the best staged photos.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="image image--padding-vertical image--mobile-scale image--mobile-center" data-cpeid="w-1688648762181-321" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="image_container content-padding-horizontal" style="padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><img alt="" class="image_content" data-image-content="" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/b34931e7001/a4752dcb-462c-4fd4-a679-e4e231c9210e.jpg?rdr=true" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="620" /></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1688654240068-208" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e2f2f; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><p align="center" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Hill Deverill</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1688648758858-278" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="text_content-cell content-padding-horizontal" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e2f2f; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">But back to June. My favourite part about these days is that we start early. It is hard to be up before the dawn in mid-June but you definitely need to be on the river at a time with a six in front of it. Jamie Pankhurst, our photographer for the day, is an early bird but Ed Burgass of Fishing TV who we had roped in as our model grumbled a bucket at the early start.</span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">You need to be up early for the light – for some reason evenings look better to the eye but to the camera, it is the morning that counts. It is actually the other way around for the fishing. People often ask me whether it is worth a super early start; the answer is nearly always no beyond the beauty of being there. If you want to catch fish stay late. Nine times out of ten you will be rewarded more for a late finish than an early start.</span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Just to prove my point we definitely didn’t luck out on the catching front with no fish for the camera early on but that is as much about setting up the shot as anything else. Inevitably, the best shots require the photographer to be upstream of the ‘model’ and frequently in the river itself; all self-respecting fish are well gone by that point and frankly, having done this a lot, you save a lot of time if the casting is done without a fly.</span></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">We had a fairly ambitious schedule that day staring at Hill Deverill which is close to the source of the Wylye, before dropping south to Deans Court and Wimborne St Giles on the Allen before heading homewards to take in Avon Springs on the Avon for the final leg. Poor Ed, such were our demands on him that he was like a Pavlov dog, it only being when we let him alone to his own devices at Avon Springs for five minutes that he finally caught a fish. I am not sure he will be up for another supermodel assignment later this summer.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="image image--padding-vertical image--mobile-scale image--mobile-center" data-cpeid="w-1688648790097-875" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="image_container content-padding-horizontal" style="padding: 10px 30px;" valign="top"><img alt="" class="image_content" data-image-content="" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/b34931e7001/432cd391-6d17-4398-8f69-2d9bf222e5bd.jpg?rdr=true" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="620" /></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout layout--1-column" data-cpeid="w-1688654266461-148" style="color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="column column--1 scale stack" data-cpeid="w-1688654266520-742" style="width: 680px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="text text--padding-vertical" data-cpeid="w-1688654266574-341" style="table-layout: fixed; 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Phillips patented what on this day in 1936?</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">2) Who resigned as English cricket captain on this day in 1981 after 12 matches with no wins?</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">3) What is scopophobia?</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="image image--padding-vertical image--mobile-scale image--mobile-center" data-cpeid="w-1688652463942-262" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="image_container content-padding-horizontal" style="padding: 10px 20px;" valign="top"><img alt="" class="image_content" data-image-content="" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/b34931e7001/d2f83197-dc5b-45f6-9bd9-283186086610.jpg?rdr=true" style="display: block; height: auto; 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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">At last, some good news about the water crisis as I have the
definitive answer to why our rivers and reservoirs are lacking water. You
must not doubt what I am about to say as I know it to be true for those
modern day water soothsayers, the government, regulatory bodies and water
companies, have spoken.</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The problem is, and please do not be angry, YOU. As human
being living in a country famed by tourists from around the globe for being
rainy you have had the temerity to take a shower, run the washing machine
and possibly, at the dead of night away from prying eyes, water the
tomatoes in your greenhouse. We are all truly bad people. Forget Partygate.
Soon it will be Watergate all over again as Rishi Sunak is run out of
office for owning a swimming pool.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Probably coming to you very soon .......</span></i><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And all this in a country where the annual average rainfall,
an average which has, incidentally, barely changed by a fraction of an inch
in the past three centuries and is set to remain the same even on the
Environment Agency worst case 50 year prediction, provides six time
more water that we actually consume. To put that in a number, we have 31
inches a year but only need 5 inches. But despite that you, me and
every person in Great Britain is being blamed for the lack of water supply.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Now, it is true we have been daily consuming more water per
head (roughly 32 gallons/144 litres) than any time in history, with the
amount rising from less than half that in the past fifty years. However,
household consumption, thanks to efficiencies in machines such as dishwashers
and more metered homes, is now on a falling graph. But the elephant in this
particular watering hole is overall demand which, thanks to a growing
population, is predicted to rise from a daily consumption of 14 billion
litres to 18 billion litres by 2050.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Now in most capitalist endeavours the suppliers would be
rubbing their hands in glee at the prospect of demand for the product
rising by 28%, not least when you get your raw material for free! But in
the weird hybrid socialist/capitalist model forced upon the water industry
by government and regulators there is no appetite to satiate demand by any
other means than sucking our rivers dry. Desalination. Reservoirs. A
national grid for water. Since 1991 the population has risen by 10 million
but not a single new reservoir has opened, the £250m Thames desalination
plant has mostly been out of commission including during the drought of
2022 and, despite a few local schemes, there is no meaningful plan for a
national water grid.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So, in some weird Orwellian manner, it apparently falls
to us to take the blame for the failings of others. But we should not
accept the narrative being forced upon us. We are a water rich country who
deserve better.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Hertfordshire in summer 2022</span></i><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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month</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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river keeper dreads. Weekends, holidays and family days out all go by the
board as, just to add to the woes of the bankside vegetation growing like
crazy, they have to dedicate every working hour to weed cutting.</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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weed cutting regime but, such is nearly two hundred years of intensive
management, it is now an essential part of river ecology. People sometimes
ask why the weed cannot just be left to its own devices. Well, it can, but
you’d soon have a clogged river that would be unfishable, be degraded from
an ecological standpoint and, in some circumstances cause localised
flooding. </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The best analogy is a wildflower meadow. A truly wild one is
managed by the grazing of sheep or cattle but for the most part what you
see is created by human intervention. If you wanted your front lawn to
become a wild meadow you would not just let it grow rampant; it would soon
become a weed infested mess. You have to cut, seed and manage it to create
those ‘wild’ spaces much beloved of lifestyle magazines. But back to the
river.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The time of the cutting varies from river catchment to river
catchment. On the rivers Itchen and Test the owners agree specific weed
cutting periods in June, July and August when the rivers close to fishing
and the cut weed is allowed to flow out to sea or, in the case of the Test
upstream of Romsey, to a weed boom where it is removed for composting. We
used to have something similar on the River Avon but in a recently
announced change to policy the Environment Agency have withdrawn their
provision of a weed boom on the grounds of health and safety for which you
can read budget saving and the general abrogation of any river care duties.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So, the Avon, in common with most other chalkstreams, now
follows a policy of what we call ‘cut & pull’. That is to say you cut
whenever you like but you have to gather and remove all cut weed before it
drifts on to the water of your downstream neighbour. Obviously, the cutting
causes plenty of disturbance so neighbours usually try to march in step to
minimise the disruption.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">How you cut depends on the nature of the river. The best way
is hand cutting with a scythe, which is done on all sections where wading
is possible with a chequer board cutting pattern used to optimise fishing
and bar cutting to maintain river levels. If it is too deep to wade, we
bring in a motorised weed cutting boat that does the job a great deal
quicker than the chain scythes of the past which required huge amounts of
labour (and effort) with a muscled team on either bank hauling linked
scythe blades, connected by chains and ropes, from side to side.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As you read this we are on (signs of relief all round) the
final Friday on the June cutting period. The Itchen is done, as are the
upper reaches of the Test. This weekend will mark the final push to clear
down and tidy up before Monday marks a return to the more mundane river keeping
work and catching up on the backlog of mowing.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Jamie Pankhurst, one of our river keeping team and a keen
photographer, took time out from the cut to fly his drone to capture his
colleagues Si Fields and Charley Portsmouth, cutting at Upper Clatford on
the River Anton last week.</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #556b34; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 16.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Angling caught in
culture wars</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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capacity for such, did I ever imagine that angling would get caught up in
the culture wars that is sexual identity, so when the <i>Daily Telegraph</i>
ran the headline last week that read “Anglers quit England team after trans
woman picked for female squad” I was truly flabbergasted</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For those of you who did not pick up this story it is that,
in a nutshell, three anglers have quit the England team in protest after a
trans woman was called up to join the women’s squad of a major competition.
Three members of the six-strong squad stepped down after Becky Lee
Birtwhistle Hodges, who was born male, was chosen for the Home Nations
shore fishing championship that takes place in July.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For me the most disappointing aspect of this was the
reaction of Jamie Cook at the Angling Trust, that once used to style itself
the independent voice of angling. He was quoted in The Telegraph,</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Naturally, we were sorry to hear that the three women have
taken the decision to step down from the team. Increasing women
participation in angling is one of our key goals and we will continue to
ensure that we offer opportunities for all anglers to participate
regardless of age, sex, colour or orientation.</span></i><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“As the national governing body for angling, the question we
are required to address by Sport England is whether the sport of angling is
gender impacted to an extent where fairness overrides inclusion or safety.</span></i><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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sport, the safety concern is not deemed significant within the sport of
angling.”</span></i><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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show leadership. Has Jamie not heard about British athletics,
cycling, rugby and swimming with rules that ring-fence the women’s
category for women only?</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #556b34; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Flies for June
& July</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">June is absolutely my favourite month to be on the river
amongst the abundantly green English countryside. It may not the easiest
month from a fishing perspective as we relearn that fish don’t always
thrown themselves at a size 8 Mayfly. However, the one thing for sure is
that you will see no river for want of water – in all my three decades of
Fishing Breaks I have never seen such sustained levels in June.</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">My general rule for mid-late June is to be eclectic in your
fly choices and be prepared to change a lot. Earlier in the month I fished
with everything from a size 10 French Partridge down to a size 18
Greenwell’s Glory with a variety of sedges and unwinged flies in between
with no single fly predominating; in fact, all the fish I caught were on
different patterns. </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Where you cannot
yet nymph try work those deep fish with a surface fly. It is amazing from
how far below, once you get the right fly, they will move.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001Y5fwzIq7f0MibLwlF_1qCA-Q8WzwLgec0rKScU-6yzwamPjrJztQuxKZ5IqtE_fcxHn1uflzcSKEkv2j5GtV5XnSbha-AGuDhPXT3lPIYJg1wr3YEaNToswmyDXzWKONtnTBdUamwYG2R3u63Mbct3ZJVTMXXaZxCIu_N4H4bjSewU28rI5t9bHgaIGiIQAbJnslnizCxxI=&c=ShKK7FaOA3w286wQyqFVE_Fb9j25r3anFn3YEzeJ4a2ApGLy3WSlKQ==&ch=0WEchjIyxjqgX53pFzBzwdSFemM-W4kKpjPdmMr2PTOBybg87aNkrA==" target="_blank"><b>Chalkstream nymph selection £16.75</b></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Damselfly Nymph (wtd) s12 | Gold Ribbed Hare’s Ear s12 |
Gold Ribbed Hare’s Ear Gold Nugget s12 | Pheasant Tail Gold Nugget s12
|Pink Shrimp s14 | Red (Superglue) Buzzer s14 | Sawyer's Pheasant Tail
Nymph s14 | Walker Mayfly Nymph (wtd) s10. Knotless 12ft tapered leader.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001Y5fwzIq7f0MibLwlF_1qCA-Q8WzwLgec0rKScU-6yzwamPjrJztQuxKZ5IqtE_fcxHn1uflzcSKEkv2j5GtV5XnSbha-AGuDhPXT3lPIYJg1wr3YEaNToswmyDXzWKONtnTBdUamwYG2R3u63Mbct3ZJVTMXXaZxCIu_N4H4bjSewU28rI5t9bHgaIGiIQAbJnslnizCxxI=&c=ShKK7FaOA3w286wQyqFVE_Fb9j25r3anFn3YEzeJ4a2ApGLy3WSlKQ==&ch=0WEchjIyxjqgX53pFzBzwdSFemM-W4kKpjPdmMr2PTOBybg87aNkrA==" target="_blank"><b>June selection £16.95</b></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Blue Winged Olive s14 | CDC Hare's Ear Shuttlecock Emerger
s14 | Elk Hair Caddis s12 | Grey Adams Klinkhammer s12 | Parachute Adams
s14 | Sherry Spinner s14. Knotless 9ft 6x tapered leader.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001Y5fwzIq7f0MibLwlF_1qCA-Q8WzwLgec0rKScU-6yzwamPjrJztQuxKZ5IqtE_fcxHn1uflzcSKEkv2j5GtV5XnSbha-AGuDhPXT3lPIYJg1wr3YEaNToswmyDXzWKONtnTBdUamwYG2R3u63Mbct3ZJVTMXXaZxCIu_N4H4bjSewU28rI5t9bHgaIGiIQAbJnslnizCxxI=&c=ShKK7FaOA3w286wQyqFVE_Fb9j25r3anFn3YEzeJ4a2ApGLy3WSlKQ==&ch=0WEchjIyxjqgX53pFzBzwdSFemM-W4kKpjPdmMr2PTOBybg87aNkrA==" target="_blank"><b>July selection £17.95</b></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Cinnamon Sedge s12| Daddy-Long Legs s10 | Gray Wulff s14 |
Greenwell’s Glory s14 | Infallible Emerger s16 | Pale Watery Dun s16.
Knotless 12ft 6x tapered leader.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Chalkstream Fly Selection (box of 78 flies £149) and the Hatch Calendar
Selection (all seven packs £119) <a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001Y5fwzIq7f0MibLwlF_1qCA-Q8WzwLgec0rKScU-6yzwamPjrJztQuxKZ5IqtE_fcxHn1uflzcSKEkv2j5GtV5XnSbha-AGuDhPXT3lPIYJg1wr3YEaNToswmyDXzWKONtnTBdUamwYG2R3u63Mbct3ZJVTMXXaZxCIu_N4H4bjSewU28rI5t9bHgaIGiIQAbJnslnizCxxI=&c=ShKK7FaOA3w286wQyqFVE_Fb9j25r3anFn3YEzeJ4a2ApGLy3WSlKQ==&ch=0WEchjIyxjqgX53pFzBzwdSFemM-W4kKpjPdmMr2PTOBybg87aNkrA==" target="_blank">click here.</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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British band were No. 1 in the US album chart with <i>Breakfast in
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Simon Cooper </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="mailto:simon@fishingbreaks.co.uk" target="_blank"><span style="color: white; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">simon@fishingbreaks.co.uk</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Founder &
Managing Director</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001Y5fwzIq7f0MibLwlF_1qCA-Q8WzwLgec0rKScU-6yzwamPjrJztQu-fevs-fcjKdnv5T1cxVhW4JNeOP6YiqIf_ovHnC9f1uFhPS3yBeQ7orPcEiLWpnvb74FxquQw0hxZ_-aAwgEHQjcBU28GAjgenbzXC-27To&c=ShKK7FaOA3w286wQyqFVE_Fb9j25r3anFn3YEzeJ4a2ApGLy3WSlKQ==&ch=0WEchjIyxjqgX53pFzBzwdSFemM-W4kKpjPdmMr2PTOBybg87aNkrA==" target="_blank"><span style="color: white; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">www.fishingbreaks.co.uk</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Quiz answers:</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1) To leave
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</div>Life of a Chalkstreamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00537310318259829331noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-152819559311493256.post-7415023908005513812023-06-13T11:20:00.001+01:002023-06-13T11:20:10.807+01:00Are salmon worth saving?<p> </p><div align="center">
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salmon charity who have a pot of money that has been gifted to them over
the years for the betterment of the species. How best to spend it in a
way that might, however small, go some way to halting the
precipitous decline of <i>Salmo salar</i> was the theme of our almost
despairing conversation.</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
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is a conversation that seems to have been ongoing through all our
lifetimes as the end of one decade simply heralds the coming of a yet worse
decade. I recall those innocent heady days in the 1970’s when we thought
that farmed salmon, by dint of relieving the pressure on the wild
population, would be the saviour. How very, very wrong we were. Then the
push to remove nets was the next great hope but still the descent
continued. Today, the theories for the decline of are manifold: pollution.
Degraded spawning grounds. Deep sea fishing, Climate change. Ocean current
changes. Seals. Piscivorous birds. And there are plenty more unmentioned
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And then, just to prove my despair was not imaginary, the
Environment Agency announced this week that the salmon run (note the word
run not catch) for the River Itchen in 2022 was just a mere 133 fish which
leads the EA to state in bleak terms <i>‘Salmon on the Itchen are in crisis
and at risk of extinction.’</i> They say this not based solely on 2022 but
because in no year since 2015 has the returning number of adult salmon
reached what is termed the Conservation Limit. That is to say, <i>‘the
minimum number of eggs required to maintain the population at a
biologically safe level and below which the probability of further decline
becomes increasingly likely.’ </i>To put that in context, the run in 2015
was 900.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
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worst of any chalkstreams, has spurred the EA into action sensibly
focussing on short to medium terms objectives that major on the river
itself rather than the wider ocean issues that we know assail the salmon
population. In broad terms, the objectives are to improve spawning habitat,
aid fish passage, encourage best practice by rod anglers and improve water
quality in terms of pollution and abstraction with all these actions
starting immediately and continuing through 2024/25.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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mentioned to me, at best, modest aspirations but to be fair to the EA, not
my favourite friends as well you know, they have to start somewhere and
I’ll hope this is more than just a cynical being seen to do something effort.
However, in the course of researching this piece I came across the Salmon
Action Consultation Plan for the River Itchen from 1998 by, you’ve guessed
it, the Environment Agency. And guess again what the primary
recommendations were? Improve spawning habitat, aid fish passage, encourage
best practice by rod anglers and improve water quality in terms of
pollution and abstraction.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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things which does make you ask, are Atlantic salmon worth saving? Have we
gone past the point of no return? I suppose, in itself, the extinction of
British Atlantic salmon will not send our planet spinning off its axis.
Species are disappearing almost daily but somehow, to me, it feels wrong to
give up without a fight. After all, it is not so long ago, within the
memory of many living today, that this amazing migratory fish was abundant.
It is clear that in trashing our planet by both design, and accident, the
salmon has become an innocent victim of our environmental profligacy. So,
yes, the Atlantic salmon is worth saving if only to prove that we are not
complete ignorant vandals to that munificent being we call Mother Nature.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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upper Test has become increasingly popular since its inception three years
ago so I thought it might be a fun idea to open it up to the under 16’s.</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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the care if experienced instructors Angus Campbell and Bob Preston it is a
chance to take your fly fishing skills to a new level. Each day Agnus and
Bob will focus on different aspects of chalkstream fly fishing but leaving
plenty of time for fishing.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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fishing experience who comes free when accompanied by a paying adult. Each
day runs 9.30am-5.30pm with tackle and flies provided. On the Saturday
evening, once the formal part of the day is over, you will be welcome to
stay until dusk to fish and BBQ. </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001993xrHk3xcFmwcSxfxT2gRHnH-pQJuSPelKt1KnWI4I4Ptf4M8jq8u3g2lvc4d1pTxNqwOCK8AlGSz4nlcGrux5yWwrrtTkSYHdw2UWDTYaEI5OVTdBbCJUrH-1Wi_L-KbtdRsXZ_lIqp96nPEbwuLX3pxOwcofTU0i7BO4YeIv1GKJEmfKYehOn2qhxtey_&c=SzxShaMIaMZ_Rl_TgA60OFi5yNOGrFvxiHWwyQmkE1dDyF1Jz1XQNA==&ch=1UyOse258Y8UmYUFDLLmlo2Oiqovkq5V21yohW0zlgBkVXeCRkLNXw==" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">More details here ......</span></a>
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Chalkstream Weekend that takes place <b>8/9 July</b>.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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I have three places left on the </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001993xrHk3xcFmwcSxfxT2gRHnH-pQJuSPelKt1KnWI4I4Ptf4M8jq8vjSBtbR4zwpkbxHPGoTZ4SfePuXny5InQO5pO9Bq5pmbnKMelECNIYr-kNIcNF-UEBV4M1qIs5sxwq6668sQL3Dhn-O3S-_S8Gtbba5rYznuYU8QeJyXL3dBichbbzvAEwsFar08zfE&c=SzxShaMIaMZ_Rl_TgA60OFi5yNOGrFvxiHWwyQmkE1dDyF1Jz1XQNA==&ch=1UyOse258Y8UmYUFDLLmlo2Oiqovkq5V21yohW0zlgBkVXeCRkLNXw==" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">One Day Chalkstream Course</span></a></span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> on <b>17/June</b> and we have just opened
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norm – I think we have all become far too accustomed to British brands
disappearing or reports of production switched to the Far East, the
returning products often woefully poor substitutes.</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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just secured a grant of £566,000 from the Welsh government to invest
in new machine tools and R&D with the aim of quadrupling sales in
America (Airflo’s parent company is the US based Mayfly Group) and
expanding into Japan, South Africa and New Zealand.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I am actually a great fan of Airflo lines which we use on
all our outfits, but I am ashamed to say I did not know that the company
make a point of not using PVC in line production because PVC requires
plasticizers to make a line functional and plasticizers, aside from causing
the cracking, contain Dioxins that contaminate water and make PVC lines
almost impossible to safely recycle. Instead, they use Polyurethane,
which is an inert, stable, fully recyclable material that lasts longer than
PVC without the use of plasticizers.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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£2m by the company, that 21 new full-time roles will be created. </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001993xrHk3xcFmwcSxfxT2gRHnH-pQJuSPelKt1KnWI4I4Ptf4M8jq8ta0sk-eYRtddw2E3iwjjlRGnW9GLv51dK1Ziq4KjWG9xJnbnpIJL2-itSctg2hJZ3fYxZ-DHgM6NeSKwva_mhVllC1bzUToDg==&c=SzxShaMIaMZ_Rl_TgA60OFi5yNOGrFvxiHWwyQmkE1dDyF1Jz1XQNA==&ch=1UyOse258Y8UmYUFDLLmlo2Oiqovkq5V21yohW0zlgBkVXeCRkLNXw==" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">www.airflofishing.com</span></a></span><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></u><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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parts; it is a remarkable turnaround from the start of May when we had
nearly all out May allocation in the first week of the month. Much
though I love spring rain, which is money in the bank for the summer and
early autumn, even I have cast my eyes to the heavens in silent thanks for
a dry few weeks which have barely dented the happy news of the aquifers
pumping away at full pelt.</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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people had a really tough time in early mid-May when, instead of clear
water and dancing Mayfly, you were greeted by chalkstreams that were
anything but. Essentially, with the valleys sodden, the May rains spilled
straight from fields and road into the rivers taking all the associated
dirt, debris and silt with it.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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edition in the exemplary fly tying of Nigel Nunn who has created a June
selection to tempt the May draw winner back out on the river again! </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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many reports in May, who fished Avon Springs for two days, one of which
included a lovely 4lb rainbow. The flies are in the post.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Simon Cooper </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="mailto:simon@fishingbreaks.co.uk" target="_blank"><span style="color: white; text-decoration-line: none;">simon@fishingbreaks.co.uk</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Founder &
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marriage and the wife of the supreme deity Jupiter<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<br />Life of a Chalkstreamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00537310318259829331noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-152819559311493256.post-7365055361542158392023-06-13T11:16:00.005+01:002023-06-13T11:16:48.485+01:00Sorry is the easy word<p> </p><div align="center">
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group for the sewerage and water companies of the UK played a blinder when
interviewed on the BBC Radio 4 Today show last week to announce £10bn of
funding over the next 10 years (or was it 7 or 5 years, accounts from post
interview briefings vary) to redeem our rivers from the hell we currently
call the water industry.</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">She hit her talking points perfectly as you would expect
from an erstwhile thirtysomething Blair babe of the 1997 intake well versed
in the ways of the media. And she actually made some fair points. Everyone
sees the water companies as eternal cash cows but five actually lost money
last year and though she did not mention it, Southern Water effectively
went bust in 2021 and had to be rescued by Australian distressed utility
specialists, Macquarie Bank.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">With the ease of David Gower in his pomp she swatted away
the needled questions delivered by the interviewer, a testy Nick Robinson.
It was not long into the interview that Robinson latched on to executive
pay. How is it he asked, with suitable chattering class mock incredulity,
that one CEO earnt £3.9m last year? Aside from the fact that this would
barely get you an averagely good Premiership footballer he kept banging on
about it and the interview disappeared down this particular rabbit hole.
Post interview I am sure Robinson was smugly satisfied with himself and
Kelly delighted that a serious analysis of how much consumer bills would be
increasing to fund the £10bn was missed, plus any serious analysis of how
that £10bn, woefully inadequate in the context of the £50-£100bn required,
would move the pollution needle.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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campaigners find themselves today. Having breasted the sunlit uplands where
the issue is now bathed in light for all to see it is now too easy for the
debate to descend into spats about private vs. public owners, dividend
allocation or the sideshow of executive pay. The nuts and bolts of saving
our rivers is about building 21</span><sup><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-text-raise: 3.0pt; position: relative; top: -3.0pt;">st</span></sup><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>century sewage treatment works, cracking
down on the pollution caused by farming and creating a water supply
system that avoids ruinous over abstraction.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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the media-baiting of the water industry distract us from the true
purpose of the mission.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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week that read, “Why Britain’s housebuilders are buying up trout farms to
stave off a collapse.” The reason is nitrate neutrality rules.</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In essence, if you build a new house or houses you have to
demonstrate that no additional nitrate load, the by-product of sewerage
output, will end up in the rivers and sea. Nitrates, along with
phosphates, are two of the big pollutants doing long term harm to the
countryside created 60% from sewage and 40% from farming, including fish
farming.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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let alone the millions government see as required, without creating
nitrates so some bright bureaucrat came up with the idea of nitrate
credits. Essentially, developers go out into the market to buy nitrate
producing assets such as farmland, piggeries or trout farms, take them out
of production to ‘trade’ the nitrate credit with the planners in return
from planning permission. If you recall, you would have read here of one
such example on the River Avon that I wrote about last year.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Nitrate trading might not be such a bad idea if we were
approaching the nitrate tipping point; a useful method for keeping it below
damaging levels. But the problem is that we are way past that point. Next
time you are by the sea and the tide goes out admire (I use the word
advisedly) the bright green sludge blanket that will be covering the
foreshore, suffocating to death the sea creatures beneath. That is nitrate
pollution. </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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does nothing to solve the basic pollution problem in that there is already
too much nitrate load. We cannot simply pretend that by robbing Peter to
pay Paul to build yet more houses will not have a further deleterious
effect on our land, rivers and coastline. </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #556b34; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 16.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Facing up to
disingenuous lobby groups</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Interesting developments from over the pond in the USA where
the pro-hunting lobby, what we call shooting and fishing, hope to score a
significant victory over the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Forest
Service and the Bureau of Land Management who between them control many
millions of wild federal acres and wished to ban the use of traditional
tackle and ammunition on public lands – that is to say lead.</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Widespread harm from the use of lead is far from proven,
though many ‘conservation’ bodies campaign on the basis that the harm is a
given. Regardless of what side of the harm debate you stand it is clear
that lead substitutes have less killing power for shooters and make the
ammunition many times more expensive, as are the substitutes for anglers.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As a result, a group of US congress members, who saw the
proposed ban as literally a land grab, have countered with a bill that
would prohibit any such ban, ‘unless such action is supported by the best
available science and state wildlife and fish agencies.’</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lead is largely a side issue for angling but I could readily
see our pastime cunningly marginalised by pressure groups who use such
diversionary tactics as discarded fishing line, lost hooks or disturbance
to wildlife as reasons that do not actually ban angling but put our rivers
and lakes off limits on largely spurious grounds.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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regulatory bodies such at Natural England or the Environment Agency who,
and I’m thinking beavers and fish stocking, too often base policy on
assertion or pressure from special interest groups rather than science. </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Members Bill, or heaven forbid a government backed bill, coming down the
Westminster track any time soon</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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well as dividing his time between guiding, river keeping and manning a desk
in the office managed to find time in the week to fly his drone over
Bullington Manor on the upper Test.</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1)</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Who was crowned King of Italy on this
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2)</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Rapeseed, currently turning British
fields yellow and a blight for hay fever sufferers is related to which
of the following: mustard, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower or turnip?</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Simon Cooper </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="mailto:simon@fishingbreaks.co.uk" target="_blank"><span style="color: white; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">simon@fishingbreaks.co.uk</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Founder &
Managing Director</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=00195mlx26qP5df4xhX9BWnK3dXgEv1zGsjjYhcU_QNMm1UGMpSOISXP9Q_22_zxYyBTsx6DBGF31DMublLf0vc1UvLtl3ubOJLMy5MkGdE14ixfQKu6zSQ60b-rVheyuo5lPYTCcS4ppa9zM2HXbIj-P2bnDdjEtZl&c=lci1vDuoOCEK2e8OL1VBaRMtiOywlphNk1ejPNJn2W9OZDRcxSmXPg==&ch=jp_Rew95uJztaSpOg8LxmAOWb3c47XzonCmNVrWRrT9xQrpfGXkv-Q==" target="_blank"><span style="color: white; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">www.fishingbreaks.co.uk</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I think we have all suspected for a while that water policy
would become a live political issue as we approach the next general
election. To my mind it is unlikely to be in the top tier of issues but I
can well imagine Jeremy Paxman girding up his ire in the Prime Ministerial
debates with a line such as, “We know most people think all politicians are
full of s**t. Tell me Sunak/Starmer/Davey [delete as appropriate] why have
you been delivering it in such epic quantities into our rivers and
coastline?”</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I have no idea what Sunak or Davey will say but we are
getting some idea of what Starmer will say after we heard last week the
Labour party is drawing up plans to create a new water regulator. </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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a Labour government would merge most of the Environment Agency (EA), the
pollution watchdog, with the financial regulator Ofwat and the Drinking
Water Inspectorate to create a new oversight body, according to people
familiar with the plans. The party would also create a separate flooding
agency with the remnants of the EA to protect communities in England and
Wales in the case of extreme weather events.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Going at all that in reverse order, separating out the flood
element makes perfect sense to me. In fact, this represents the majority of
the EA spend and the PR nightmare they most dread. It also dictates some
very odd funding decisions: speak it quietly but most of the grant funding
for chalkstream restoration of the past 15 years has come from the flood
defence budget. There is some logic behind this, by connecting the river
back to the water meadow landscape, but it does require a bit of lateral
interpretation of the intent if we are being truthful.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As to the rest the meat is in the merging of the EA’s
pollution monitoring functions (sic) and the financial regulation provided
by Ofwat; we can largely ignore the Drinking Water Inspectorate as it is
worthy but tiny.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">At first blush the creation of a regulatory behemoth
straddling the water industry looks like a no brainer but I’m not so sure
and here is why. The problem with the water industry is capacity. Capacity
to provide water without prejudicing the natural flows of our river.
Capacity to process sewage in such a way that the treated waste flows back
into our rivers and seas with minimal ill effects. Neither of these
objectives are terribly hard. The Romans aced water supply two millennia
ago. The Orcadians had sewers for their Orkney Isle homes a millennia prior
to that. The difficulty is people. Too many people.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The last time there was a significant push to increase the
capacity for both the water and sewerage system was either side of WW2, the
planning based on a population of something around 50 million. Today we are
pushing on to 70 million. Even on its own that increase of 40% in the
population was to require a massive undertaking to build more plant and
reservoirs, the issue made problematic by personal water use more than
doubling in that same time frame along with home waste now containing more
damaging chemicals than ever before. At one time it was industry that
killed our rivers; today it is homes (along with farming) that have
taken on that particular mantle.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Any why? Because nobody has spent the money to build the
required infrastructure. The water industry, both in its nationalised and
privatised states has been deprived of the funds by politicians who have
demanded cheap water bills at the expense of infrastructure spending. As I
have written before the cost of the average annual household water bill is
less than the TV licence. How utterly bonkers is that? </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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regulator ever square the circle by allowing a massive increase in water
and sewerage bills (believe me it will be massive) to fund the huge
infrastructure spending required to a) play catch up on population numbers
b) future proof for growth and c) upgrade 19</span><sup><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-text-raise: 3.0pt; position: relative; top: -3.0pt;">th</span></sup><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>century waste processing technology for 21</span><sup><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-text-raise: 3.0pt; position: relative; top: -3.0pt;">st</span></sup><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>century waste output?</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">My sense is the answer to this is no; I cannot see that
combining the regulatory functions will resolve the historical conflict
between need to spend and the need to keep consumer bills low unless that
regulator has the authority to let bills rip which seems to be unlikely.
And assuming that to be the case much better to retain the separation of
regulation but remake the EA into a Pure Water Authority with a massive
budget and draconian powers.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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properties being sold with Barton Court on the River Kennet and Wherwell
Priory on the River Test changing hands. However, this year, if the rumour
mill is to be trusted, may well top that.</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Lodge, with fishing rights on the River Dever and 5.5 acres is up for sale
in the village of Bransbury in Hampshire with agents Hamptons. There may
also soon be another fishing property close by on the market with double
that price tag and considerably more fishing. Again, not on the market yet,
but not far away but on the River Test upstream of The Mayfly Inn at
Chibolton will be another good section of river with cottages.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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June with a price tag in excess of £120m.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #556b34; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 16.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mayfly and rain
all at once</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In complete contrast to this time last year when the river
flow data was flashing a metaphorical red after a wickedly dry winter we
are now awash with water. That said there is something of an Oxford divide
of a non-educational nature. To the south most rivers are in the
blue sector, which is to say Above Normal or Notably high whilst those
north of Oxford are on a steady green at Normal.</span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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well a mirror image of the April rain with the east, through wet, still
playing catch up and the south a third or more up on the average for April.
Though plenty of rain is like money in the bank for the chalkstreams in the
medium to long term, in the short term it has not been without its problems
for late April and early May anglers. Sodden fields means that any heavy
rain runs off as dirty water straight into the rivers, raising levels and
often severely affecting some rivers, especially in Wiltshire, Dorset and
Berkshire to the extent that they became close to unfishable or worse. In
total we have had nearly three quarters of our monthly May allocation in
the first nine days of the month.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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forecast, and with things returning to normal with the first serious Mayfly
action (in the rain!) on Tuesday after some terrific Hawthorn the previous
week.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This is not a photo I would have ever wanted to bring you
….. a beaver spotted on the River Stour in Dorset last week. </span></b><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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licenses for beaver culls, with over 100 shot last year. Later this year I
will have to send our river keepers on a compulsory Beaver Management
Course, sanctioned by Natural England, so they know what to do when a
beaver builds a dam. </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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is being run by one of the groups promoting the introduction of the
beavers. You could not make it up.</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1)</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When did the UK entry last win the
Eurovision Song Contest?</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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1946, 1956 or 1966</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Simon Cooper </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="mailto:simon@fishingbreaks.co.uk" target="_blank"><span style="color: white; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">simon@fishingbreaks.co.uk</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Founder &
Managing Director</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001mOLKkPw-SLumfGeh8BQMG862I0uVsWCGsRVQKDSJ4K74wDWr2V8Y6k_4S7Nbf7IuNi_U1_01I4jIzVVNYksK5946L3T-1G5QzA2nIh3vGmGI5KjGzazWi6AewNkOYxniEa3ZoMMxKW-rQkU5bYKaFAfChoToAwdh&c=Oz60W1azjeItFaXbr5pTfrLrYe9u0aQ5x8Hxyrej9259o2dqGFLYVQ==&ch=jPRKFiWnUQhS8Qyx1JyanIFvV5-y4b1RRHK5gRyHpQ2S27dkgDUv-A==" target="_blank"><span style="color: white; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">www.fishingbreaks.co.uk</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1)</span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 7.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: #2e2f2f; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Katrina and the Waves in 1997 with <i>Love
Shine A Light</i> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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