...and what it should be doing.

http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p...mpingtrout.jpg

There you go!





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Warren if you put [IMG] followed by [/IMG] around those urls, you will get the photo displayed in the thread. Or, on photobucket, you can click on the forum option next to the picture of your choice and it will put them around the url for you as it stores the whole lot on the clip board. You simply paste it into the "Reply to Thread" or "Post New Thread" box and when viewed... voila the picture is there.

richard

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Who resides on the right bank of the Derbyshire Wye and is lulled to sleep each night by the mutterings of a weir, dreaming that "When the rivers and their inhabitants come first, we ALL win..."

could be a coloured salmon

Thanks. It's not a coloured Salmon.

There you go....

Perfection itself!

richard
(excuse to get the picture up again I know but I like it so much... )
PS It's time we put a ladder in there!

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Who resides on the right bank of the Derbyshire Wye and is lulled to sleep each night by the mutterings of a weir, dreaming that "When the rivers and their inhabitants come first, we ALL win..."

Could be a cock pheasant...........but it so clearly isn't

Bugsy

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KEEP CZECHING 'EM

Its a male Brownie of about one and a half pounds. I remember seeing the heads of fish poking out of the white water below the fall. They were looking for the best route up. . Salmon are thought to do this too although I have only ever seen trout do it and only on that afternoon.

I wonder how much of a barrier those sort of weirs are to successful spawning. There is a legal requirement in Scotland that all rivers should not have any man-made barriers to migratory fish. And of course the brownies make use of the fish passes too. But there must be quite a few rivers with no migratory fish runs which have lots of weirs or caulds. This must at least limit the numbers of trout that make it up to the spawning burns. Certainly the Tweed Foundation believe that when they dynamited most of the caulds on Tweed tributaries it made a huge difference to the numbers of salmon successfully spawning.