Hi Jim,
Thanks for the local report
No,
I am not saying the fish have been ottered (or cormoraned!), it was a statement from a nice guy I met. His garden is on the stream.
What
I am saying is that the weather conditions since 2012 which are bad in winter and then bad in summer have more to do with the sharp decrease in fish populations.
Now re. the Seacourt, you're talking of the north stretch, which is very nice, I've always been catching on flies. Nothing big though, and much much less than only 10 years ago.
The Seacourt has at least 3 different stretches.
In the past one of them was especially good for pike. It even.appeared in a 1800s book for this reason.
Nowadays I doubt you would meet anyone saying of the same stretch that it's good for anything!
Same for the other locals streams. 10 years ago,.I had big chub and also barbel even in the city center.... Nowadays, from a bridge try to spot some... you might but not a lot!