John Aston
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There was a fascinating article in the Wild Trout Trust magazine about burbot. The area featured was a small beck which runs through James Dyson's farming estate at Dunston in Lincolnshire . Through aerial surveys the original course of the beck was identified and obviously, like the entire Witham system , it had changed massively after the industrialisation of farming and extensive drainage works and because burbot have very precise , and unusual spawning habitat needs , they slowly died off.
One of their last strongholds was , apparently, the Yorkshire Ouse system , especially the Derwent (the only main river in the system which rises in the East , and not in the Pennines ) . It is a river more like the Hants Avon than the wild , spatey and peaty rivers of the Dales . Every time I fish it, or the lower Rye (its tributary ) , as often as not miles from anywhere I can't help wondering when a burbot last swam in my swim . Last century, the one before or .......last week ?
The chances of a burbot anywhere are tiny , and in a river flowing into the Irish sea they are tinier still - and in a canal flowing into such a river ? Come on ..it was a little catfish . Or a mutant monster stone loach ..And if they were so curious that they looked it up afterwards why in God's name was there no photo? If the angler was a keen one , being the age he is, he might even remember the Angling Times prize for catching one .
Must dash , I'm off coelacanth fishing down on t'cut
One of their last strongholds was , apparently, the Yorkshire Ouse system , especially the Derwent (the only main river in the system which rises in the East , and not in the Pennines ) . It is a river more like the Hants Avon than the wild , spatey and peaty rivers of the Dales . Every time I fish it, or the lower Rye (its tributary ) , as often as not miles from anywhere I can't help wondering when a burbot last swam in my swim . Last century, the one before or .......last week ?
The chances of a burbot anywhere are tiny , and in a river flowing into the Irish sea they are tinier still - and in a canal flowing into such a river ? Come on ..it was a little catfish . Or a mutant monster stone loach ..And if they were so curious that they looked it up afterwards why in God's name was there no photo? If the angler was a keen one , being the age he is, he might even remember the Angling Times prize for catching one .
Must dash , I'm off coelacanth fishing down on t'cut
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