It seems that lots of stillwater fisheries are now stating time off and not
1 hour after sunset. Would you not agree that this is the best time of the day / evening "The Evening Rise" to see fish moving and to catch fish.
Most Severn Trent Waters now state the time and in some cases stipulate the time the premises must be clear. It would be interesting to see if other fisheries have adopted this.
Possibly a bit of HS or maybe to reduce the number of fish caught!!

Save on money. What cost in overtime, people working from say 8am to 11pm during the height of the summer, 7 days a week.
A lot will be down to H&S.

Boycott them. Remember how hard your money was to come by and let that decide what you can accept as fair value or not.

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..."

As the new Bailiff at my local fishery Walkerwood in Stalybridge, Cheshire I can thoroughly recommend fishing into the darkness of dusk and late evening rises, no doubt I'll be the last one off the water after just one more cast into the blackness...

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Good for you Woz.
Is the best time, that magical one hour into darkness!!
regards
bert

I have to agree during the summer months the best fishing does not start till late in the evening. Sometimes it can be 10pm before the best of the fish come out to play, the place i work gets some great sedge hatches and i have often stayed on after everyone else has gone home, pulling sedges in the dark. Noting like it.
Mick

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Born to fish, forced to work... Same thing!

defo! i,ll second that..
you cant beat that magical hour

Good luck with the midges, Woz. You couldn't pay me enough to fish that place on a still July evening

Aah, the magical, but mythical evening rise. Just a romantic notion these days is it not? How many decent evening rises do we actually get, out of say every 10 visits? One? Two if yer lucky? Maybe as high as 3 if you know the water, live close by and are able to hurry along when you know everything is just right; even then, 3/10 would be damn good these days. The reality is, that spectacular morning, noon and afternoon sessions occur with a similar, if not higher frequency.

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Cant speak for the stillwaters but on the Small rivers around here the evening rise still happens pretty regularly.


Andy


Becks and Brown Trout: River Ure Grayling. Shy ladies and some not so shy.

'An hour in the gloamin's worth ten in the day'