Trout & Salmon visits the Bourne Rivulet, Hampshire
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- čas přidán 1. 01. 2014
- The Bourne Rivulet is often in the news for the wrong reasons, laid low by pollution and drought, but not in 2012, when Trout & Salmon editor Andrew Flitcroft, in the company of William Daniel of Famous Fishing, found it in rude health -- a gin-clear stream offering classic dry-fly and nymph sport
The rivulet is the inspiration for the famous angling book Where The Bright Waters Meet by Harry Plunket Greene.
I live on the Bourne and no, the grayling aren't removed they are just not there. The river is its own ecosystem and is not interfered with to the extent that the Test and Itchen are. I caught a 5lb bown once from above the cress beds. Quite some fish by any standards. I am very proud of this little stream.
I fished many of Wiiliam's chalkstream beats and I concur
Lovely to watch and be inspired on a December afternoon and think of a spring day in 2023.
Where ever we manage to cast a fly ..be it a dry Adams on a stream like this or a Waterhen Bloa on a northern river Swale Eden or Irwell we have alot of history behind us and much to fight for to keep those streams vibrant with life
despite the indiffererence of the Environment Agency ,Water companies and Industrial farming
Simon Artley Manchester UK
Well said. Despite the odds against, I try to remain hopeful for an eventual and permanent 'sea change' in my own lifetime, towards the protection and preservation of our streams and rivers. However, having recently re-read some of my old 'Angling' magazine collection from 1968 to 1970, in which angling personalities of the day (Brian Harris et al) were complaining bitterly about exactly the same indifferences back then, it seems that no progress has been made at all during the last 50 plus years. A sad case in point is the Costa Beck - a spring fed limestone stream in North Yorkshire with very similar characteristics to a chalkstream - which has now been completely destroyed after decades of pollution from sewage and fish-farm discharges. Even with the Environment Agency and Yorkshire Water now facing legal action for gross dereliction of duties, the wonderful trout and grayling populations which used to be so prolific in that stream could take a generation or more to return, if at all.
No Grayling? I wonder if they are,cough,removed? If so i hope they are released downstream and not killed.
I remember the River Meon being as pristine, with the clean gravel on the river bed. Now I see a horrible Brown/black slime.
You can get 7lb brown trout on the old industrially hammered river Goyt!!!
how can a former industrial river constantly battered by pollution events like the Irwell hold bigger fish than a crystal clear river?
Irwell Fishing Because they're Northern! Not sissy capitalist Tory parasites!
Just imagine how the Irwell would've fished before the Industrial Revolution...
That doesn't make a difference when it stops because it all goes downstream.
Hey chaps, it's not all about size, I know where I would prefer to be offering a Fly to a Trout and it wouldn't be a Shopping Trolley infested ditch near Manchester (oops and sorry I'm Northern), many years ago I had the pleasure of fishing with William and he is a very knowledgeable fella
Guys which club get it? or this is free water? but i dont think so :D
I say, chaps, what? Off to the Body Shop to find me a chin, ahaha haha......mind how you go, Hugo.
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