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well,apparentley the pollution a few weeks ago has done its damage,talking to a couple off mates today who have fished the rugeley stretch for the last 30 odd years.
they spent ALL day yesterday fishing different methods/swims for exactly nowt....zilch....not even a single bite,and these lads are real old school,they could catch a fish out of a puddle of cows yellow stream.
restocking of dace,chub barbel etc,was done in rugeley area done fairley recently,not sure if it was 08 or 09 all these have gone now.
big stretch of river between stoke and burton so if only these 2 areas to be restocked it will take a long time for them to make their way upstream/downstream,
also agree with bill how long until the next incident,
happens far to often and i bet if it happened on a southern chalk stream or a scottish salmon river they would be falling over themselves to put it right :(
was told a few days ago of a few more fish had been put just upstream of wolsey bridge, did go fora walk up to brindley viaduct last monday and it looked sock on for this time off the year ,
I can only speak for the Burton end but we need alot more crappity smackin fish than what's been put in !
It now appears that we will never know what happened in June (Not the cyanide spill, but what went into the water when we had our first high river level). An act of God is just not good enough. Maybe a few fish will be caught next season, but the bigger fish such as carp, chub, bream and Barbel will take years to come back to the stock size we originally had.
Hopefully Coors will run some matches and we will see, but I would like to see further stocking to compensate for the heavy losses we have had.
I have experienced fish kills before on the Trent but this was definately the worst and I still smell a rat. Somewhere, somebody know's what happened but I doubt it will ever be made public.
