Rain rain go away....

On Fri, 6 Jul 2007 at 22:18:31 in uk.rec.fishing.game Derek Moody wrote:
In article , W. D. Grey
wrote:

Our river - the Tawe has been in spate, though I've seen it worse, and
looking like chocolate. The lads were out all the same trying to tempt
the unwary salmon - to no avail !

I delivered a boat to Swansea about a year back* - first time I'd seen the
Marina/lock arrangements (built since my days at Swansea Uni) - what does it
do to runs in low water?

Basically it's completely ****ed the runs of sea trout. The fish pass
doesn't work and we've dropped from the top 3 in Wales for sea trout to
below 20th.

Cheerio,

* Nearly missed the harbour entrance at first light - someone had painted a
ruddy great red square on the end of the E pierhead and I assumed I had to
leave red to port - er, oops.

Another mariner tells me the Swansea Barrage has the only entrance in
the UK (and he's done them all) where they have traffic lights..!

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Nogood Boyo

In article , Nogood Boyo
wrote:

Basically it's completely ****ed the runs of sea trout. The fish pass
doesn't work and we've dropped from the top 3 in Wales for sea trout to
below 20th.

Suspected there would be some affect :-(

Another mariner tells me the Swansea Barrage has the only entrance in
the UK (and he's done them all) where they have traffic lights..!

Commoner than you might think, especially in ports with very mixed users.
Weymouth (home port) actually has two sets - one for the harbour entrance,
basically to keep the little boats clear when the ferries are moving, and
another set at the Town Bridge to control queues when it's open.

Re seatrout: in an ordinary year we'd be seeing them jumping in the bay
about now - we've tried casting over them but no joy - but this year no
sign, presumably there's so much water they're running straight up.

Cheerio,

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