The word 'Barbel'.seems to be causing a few members on the Salmon thread some problems ,I hope it's not infectious.

Jim

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The Fishermans Friend is the Flirty Fly,Fickle Food for Fleeting Fish.

Highly contagious 3lb - especially after protracted periods of percieved inaction.

As in;

"I'm still waiting for the EA man to confirm my prejudices - it's taking the contagious"

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Jim, do you know if the semingly fast expanding Clyde barbel are all Pomphorhynchus laevis infected?



I think I would have thrown in some & smileys rather than myself.

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I have no idea,but I will attempt to find out.might take a bit of rooting about.

Jim

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The Fishermans Friend is the Flirty Fly,Fickle Food for Fleeting Fish.

The Yorkshire rivers are all thought to be parasite free. Let's hope they were sourced from there. Makes sense distance wise. Fingers x'd for the Clyde system.

The Hampshire Avon and Dorset Stour were infected bythen legal re-distrubition of Kennet barbel in the fifties, as was the river Severn. Illegal stocking by thoughtless barbel 'enthusiasts' then spread the, always infected, offspring further into Wales and the Wye.

Yellow/orange P. laevis larvae are visible, unmistakable really, in Gammarus pulex kick samples. SEPA will know, unlike some blinkered EA regions.
I'll find some images for this thread tomorrow.

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Nah Barbel luvverly fish, you can fly fish for them on one beat on the Wye errrr .... Gromaine thats it

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The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'

Barbarella????

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Plusnet/Madasafish > Liars to the internet community

its wales you know

Baa Baa Rella

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The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'

She'd sort them out.

Time for an avatar change?

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