hi all ,

was out with the dog today down the river (the Wear ) just to see if it was settling down from the recent floods .
it has dropped loads since sunday but still very high and coloured from the few days of rain .
by the look of all the debris in the fields it was obvious that the river had burst its banks during the height of the floods , as i was walking on the path about 20 metres from the riverside i came across some dead fish (stockies) , 5 in total, all around the 3/4lb mark and all very similar .

would i be wrong in guessing that these were probably stocked this season and couldn't cope with the huge floods ? also being recently stocked so they were still grouped together ?

god knows how many more there were ...

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where about was this Sid ?, Saturday morning there were fish moving, both across the road in floodwater and also on the cricket pitch near me. Ive been done again this morning and theres quite abit of damage around.

sid ,there isnt any local fisheries,trout farms that could of been affected???,but its a sad fact that we lose fish through flooding either pushed downstream or as you have found left stranded by the receding water.

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they were between the tudhoe and croxdale stretches , near the main pylons . couldn't believe there was 5 of them . stockies or not they belong in the river , but i suppose thats mother nature for you .

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no mate , the nearest one is up by witton castle i believe , which is around 10 miles further upstream .

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anyone any experience of this or why it happens ? is it just stocked fish or would wild fish suffer the same way ?

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CSO's ?


Stockies actually belong on the end of a drop kick...(after being properly dispatched of course)

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Mick

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my club allows bait fishing for browns , and theres alot of people who target these with all kinds of bait .
the mentality over the years has been for the bait men to take their limit each trip , lowering the stock levels of the wild and stocked population .

i've argued my point with the club committee for years to have fly only for browns , or C+R for a couple of years to get the wild population thriving again , but sadly it always falls on deaf ears .
the answer i keep getting is its a mixed club .

we are not all blessed with well run clubs where its fly only and people are sensible with taking the odd every season .

i expected a more mature reply than that warren , my point was i don't like seeing dead fish on the riverbank wild or stocked .but this kind of snobbery boils my p1ss.

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