No surprise as final goes south of border
I HATE to tell you so... heard it before, but it has happened and sooner than I expected.
The Anglian Water International Fly Fishing Championships have released their details of venues etc. for the 2007 event. Venues for the Scottish heats are Lake of Mentieth and Loch Venechar, but wait for it, the Scottish Final will be held on Rutland Water in England.
A few weeks ago I predicted this would happen due to the loss of Loch Leven, imagine if the Scottish Football team had to play in Manchester, then there would be a big noise but the biggest participant sport in the land with some of the best fishing anywhere has to fish in England. Not good enough, a national disgrace, so lets hear your voice raised at every opportunity.
Montrose Angling Club have launched a campaign in an attempt to have something done about seals in their Bridge of Dun beat of the South Esk. As I reported over the last month seals have become resident in the beat and have been witnessed devastating the finnock (immature seatrout) in their natural environment. It would appear that bodies with interests in conservation of marine mammals are willing to co-operate in finding a solution to the problem and they have indicated that they would consider lending a seal scaring machine for installation in the estuary and therefore keep the seals in the bay. I hope that this spirit of co-operation will blossom into a plan which will see this problem overcome.
Incidentely, Scottish National heritage have expressed concern that salmon stocks in the South Esk are still in numbers insufficient to sustain the balance required by the Fresh Water Mussel. Can I suggest that the seatrout numbers, or lack of them also contributes to this in a similar way.
The whole thing points to the changes we are experiencing becoming beyond our management and that the answer is with the way we live and work and this is now being realised by our peers. Still, to sit back and do nothing is wrong and I would like to see much more being done now. We have heard in the last few years of the plan for the South Esk and how it would revolutionise the river. With this rate of progress many of us will not be around to see it published let alone implemented.
As you will no doubt be aware the Tay fishing has been very poor with only one fish on the first day and that from Loch Tay, let us hope that the colder frosty weather brings down the water levels and that my prediction of a good spring run will be proved.
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