Coarse Lake Update
Dear members,
Well, it is about time I gave everyone an update on what we have been up to with regards to our fisheries this year, I took over in August as the Coarse Vice Chairman as we were in the middle of several projects that we needed to complete.
I will start with the City stretches of the rivers, these saw a few well attended works parties help clear out a lot of the swims and maintain some of the fences and bridges ready for the winter match season, thank you again all who took part. The results in the first few matches have been very promising with some large roach caught from close to the city. We are starting our own Coarse Fish Spawning and Recruitment Project (CFSARP) in the new year, with the support of the original Avon Roach Project to improve natural recruitment of coarse fish fry in the City stretches of our rivers.
The future is looking good for the middle stretches of the Avon with several specimen fish being reported, double figure barbel, 2lb roach, big pike and chub to well over 5lb.
We will be improving access and have a robust maintenance plan that will be implemented over the next 12 months for White Horse, Folds and Burgate stretches.
This year at Petersfinger we have:
Installed two different new aeration Systems in both Hands and Clarks Lake.
Cut lilies and removed excessive waste.
Pursued aggressive tree work to open the lakes up to wind and reduce the amount of leaf litter in the future.
Executed netting surveys and started stock balancing on Clarks and Hands lakes
Air stone and Force 7 aerator in action
With regards the netting and stock balancing, we are concerned about the amount […]
