The last outing of this season and I wanted to put a bend in the rod, so I headed up to Oxfolds Beck. As I have mentioned ad infinitum, this chalk stream holds – or at any rate held – some big fish but has been bludgeoned by pollution. Still, of all the club’s waters, […]
Month: September 2020
Up to Pickering Beck’s Duchy beat to do the invertebrate sampling then have a quick fish. For anyone interested in this kind of thing the count from the three-minute kick sample was as follows: gammarus,160; hepta, 10; cased caddis, 50; caseless caddis, 0; stonefly, 40; baetis, 40; mayfly, 6; bwo, 6. The water was high […]