Little piece of the massive works the WTT are heavily involved in for the benefit of East Anglian Sea Trout:

BBC News - Norfolk river trout given help to reach spawning ground

This is brilliant news Paul, the upper Nar is full of ideal habitat for sea trout to spawn in, they used to run up the Babingley until it dried out.

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My colleague Tim is project managing a ton of stuff on the Glaven, Stiffkey and other Anglian rivers also (including sea-gate redesign and installation to allow fish passage and other assorted habitat works further up each system).

Ace.

When I used to work in Ely a few years ago, there were reports of coarse anglers catching sea trout into double figures out of the Great Ouse around Ely, picture went to local papers but I never got to see them. To go that far up river they would have swum past the River Lark, Little Ouse and Wissey. The future certainly looks better for East Anglian sea trout.

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The Babingley is a fantastic little stream. The browns in there are ridiculous... if it had sea run fish as well it would be my idea of the est trout fishing on the planet!

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Was fantastic, dried up a few years ago, only looked at it a couple of times since and haven't seen anything not to say that the sea trout wouldn't re-populate the river.

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"Water is peculiar stuff. It circulates mysteriously, rising invisibly from the sea as vapour, forming clouds, falling as rain, creating streams and rivers that return again to the sea. You can swallow it in sips, but it can swallow you whole if you fall into a deep place. You can't catch hold of it, but it can catch hold of you, even if you just look at it."

Well... when I last fished it 18 months ago it was very much alive and well.

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"A homeward tramp thro' mist wrapped night,
With heart and creel in common light,
Complete content, the day has brought it,
They fished for pleasure - and they caught it"

P F Morgan
taken from the catch record book at Llanthony Hotel, Honddu Valley, Aug 1942

www.monnowlogue.com
www.monnow.org.uk

Well, I am definately mistaken, maybe looking too far up river..

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"Water is peculiar stuff. It circulates mysteriously, rising invisibly from the sea as vapour, forming clouds, falling as rain, creating streams and rivers that return again to the sea. You can swallow it in sips, but it can swallow you whole if you fall into a deep place. You can't catch hold of it, but it can catch hold of you, even if you just look at it."

Norfolk rivers have always had big brownies, the wensum used to produce a few doubles, I believe jim sapey had several. there was a big seatrout taken in the middle of norwich. Out at blakney there were always seatrout coming in and out. you just have to go and try . jim

I've still got the newspaper article about that sea trout, 20 odd pounds caught in winter by a pike angler dead baiting, it looked like a bleeding salmon. I have a date with hellesdon mill weir pool this year with some streamers, see whats out there.

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"Water is peculiar stuff. It circulates mysteriously, rising invisibly from the sea as vapour, forming clouds, falling as rain, creating streams and rivers that return again to the sea. You can swallow it in sips, but it can swallow you whole if you fall into a deep place. You can't catch hold of it, but it can catch hold of you, even if you just look at it."