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An "Otter Holt" has been built in my favourite swim on my local river. This swim holds alot of barbel... so as the tittle says... is this the end?
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Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 1:52 pm
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E-Mail the Angling Trust Simon, talk to Ruth, talk to anyone! Find out some more info please mate, as this is very worrying for all you chaps in that neck of the woods...
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Does it have residents? If not maybe it could get "washed away by floods" or something?
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Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 3:36 pm
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the big problem is that for every person who wants to see barbel on our river systems
an awful lot more people want to see otters!
its a rock and hard place but im guessing even the true conservationists would 100% encourage the otters as they are a natural predator of english rivers
they would surely only worry about rising otter populations when fish stocks got too low to feed all the otters
the angler wouldnt get a thought and the fact that otters kill for the sake is swamped up by the fact that in nature nothing is wasted
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Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 3:47 pm
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""the angler wouldnt get a thought and the fact that otters kill for the sake is swamped up by the fact that in nature nothing is wasted""
Is that a fact Dom, that Otters kill for the sake of killing? I always thought they only killed to eat???
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Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 4:13 pm
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nah otters will overkill mate
they left 100 carp corpses on the bank overnight on a lake down here
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Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 4:32 pm
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Hi Si,
PM me the stretch mate.
Is this a man-made one or has an otter moved in?
Thanks
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Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 9:22 am
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...as far as i know, theres no residents (yet). Im down there tonight so ill see if its still there or has been washed away.
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These flash floods can arrive very suddenly eh mate
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Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 1:24 pm
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with devastating force......
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Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 2:19 pm
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Ha-ha!
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Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 7:02 pm
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Hope it works out for you Si
Bad times indeed
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Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 7:07 pm
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That water, when in flood, just sweeps everything downstream in splinters... absolutely devastating spate bores... terrible...
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Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 7:41 pm
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Had a superb curry last night.
It was a chicken tarka massala.
Much like a chicken tikka massala but a little otter........
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Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 11:17 pm
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Check please....
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Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 12:33 am
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If there is not enough rain for floods I am sure some local teenage vandals might turn up and damage it beyond repair.............
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Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 1:49 pm
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Mother nature's given it a damn good beating, with half of it washed away by the looks of it. Apparently it's a speculative thing - just on the off chance an otter swam past - that said, you do not need a license to release otters and no one has a clue who is releasing, where and how many!
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Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 6:03 pm
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robhale wrote:
Mother nature's given it a damn good beating, with half of it washed away by the looks of it. Apparently it's a speculative thing - just on the off chance an otter swam past - that said, you do not need a license to release otters and no one has a clue who is releasing, where and how many!
The weather has been atrocious in that area Rob, especially in that swim. just the way of the world and all that but it's a right little wind tunnel there
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Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 3:07 pm
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oprator42 wrote:
Had a superb curry last night.
It was a chicken tarka massala.
Much like a chicken tikka massala but a little otter........
Quite simply brilliant!!!!!!!
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