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Originally Posted by richardw
Looking at the house brick sized weights on the bottom of these devices I'm not confident that they will stay where they are put.
richard
Exactly what I thought, Dont fancy one of them in the Back when Wading
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No need to worry! The stretch they are going in (Prebends – right on the point of the meander in the centre of Durham City) averages over 10 feet deep for about quarter of a mile, upstream and down, and is even graced by a pleasure steamer in the summer months. As a consequence of the depth, the bend, and the fact that the Wear is considerably wider here than anywhere nearby, the current rarely ever ‘steams through’ in this location, but tends to form a big back eddy when the river is in flood. I would imagine this will have been taken into consideration by the EA, I know they consulted local angling interests, and that the devices have been installed, with some degree of success, on similar stretches of the Ouse downstream of York.
Prebends is also the area most visited by the flock of cormorants that always congregate on the Wear at Durham throughout the winter, probably because it’s the place where many of the smaller coarse species shoal up in the colder months. Up to about 10 years ago, it used be match fished every Sunday in winter – not anymore, because catch rates have plummeted in recent years, as the report alludes to. And just in case anyone is still worried about being impaled while fishing on the next wade-able part of the river downstream - even if these things did get carried along on the current, there is still the probably insurmountable obstacle of the Framwellgate Dam, half a mile downstream, for them to get carried over!
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