The Avon Roach Project in association with The Barbel Society

[Fred Bonney]

The second annual fundraising event is to be held on 18th September 2010.
The format will be as last year with a friendly fishing match to the death (more an all-out chat and a chance to meet with like-minded folk, really) on the Somerley Estate stretch of the Avon followed by a three course meal at the Tyrrells Ford Country Inn at Avon, in Hampshire. This again will be followed by an auction and a raffle.
A cost of £50.00 per head will include your entry to the match, dinner, a chance to bid on some excellent items, plus an invitation, for those who want to make a weekend of it, to also fish the Somerley Estate on Sunday. Car stickers and maps will be issued to all guests.

http://www.avonroachproject.co.uk/av...test-news.html

If you would like to come along, please email budgie@avonroachproject.co.uk and you will be sent full event details plus an official invitation.
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[Fred Bonney]

See update on the project 2010/11

AVON ROACH PROJECT

 

[Fred Bonney]

The very latest for those who are interested in fish welfare in our rivers



http://www.avonroachproject.co.uk/ARP-2012-13.html

 

[Fred Bonney]

Re: The Avon Roach Project

From an email.

We intend starting a BLOG in a couple of months so everyone can live the nightmare with us in smaller chunks of more detailed and personal information. However, we’ll let this update get publicly absorbed first. After all there’s only so much roach stuff a man can take.

We have had the best year ever, probably due to the cool soggy summer and the good late winter temperatures of 2011 putting the adult fish in a decent condition prior to spawning.

One or two folk have started to catch roach in some of the places they hadn’t been seen for years, and we have been asked if we had anything to do with it, which of course we have.

We also saw a far greater number of smaller roach return to our spawning boards this and last year, which again could be attributed to us returning good numbers to these locations. We also saw some absolute whoppers too – three pounders some of them.

We decided not to return any of ours at the end of 2012, which we had scheduled to do, because of the almighty flood conditions. Instead, we retained them in our stews and will be giving the river a double dose this coming autumn.

Thank you all for your continued support.

Kind regards

Trevor and Budgie

 

[Paul Boote]

As you know, Fred, this is the fishy outfit that I have the most time and greatest admiration for. Too many of the spotties-focused rivers trust types are just a bunch of Simmsed- and -Costa-del-Mare-ed-up young poshos doing dip net surveys (looking like fly company catalogue mannequins as they do them) and achieving precisely nothing. Good on you, Avon Roach boys.