DELEGATES MEETING APRIL 24TH

[rushy]

Well I must confess to not being too alert at last nights meeting.

My day started at 6.45am with my daughter waking me up by plonking my 20 month old Grandaughter on top of me ........ "Here you go Grandad - have a nice day - see you at 6 tonight - instructions are on the kitchen table "

The next eleven hours were just a blur and I set off from Manchester at 6.30pm in a daze heading to the Anglers Club via a drive through McDonalds.

Arrived in to the meeting ten minutes late to some welcoming comment of "Nice you could make it"

Sat down with a pint and my head spinning with tunes of Postman Pat - Cloudbabies - wind the bobbin up - the wheels on the bus go round and round - ring a roses et al ............................

Mind you - the rest of the delegates looked like that's what they were thinking about as well

Anyway - onto business - albeit it not a lot to report

RIVER NIDD
Discussions had taken place with various landowners to obtain closer access to parts of the Nidd at Hammerton and Skip Bridge but to no avail

RECENT CHEMICAL PLANT FIRE IN LEEDS
2000 fish have been reported dead in the Canal. It is hoped the situation will now start improving and no further significant casualties will occur

MEMBERSHIP YEAR BOOK SALES
402 attached - 774 unattached

KIPPAX PARK
Skylark Pond now open. Match weights on Lapwing around 100lb are now regular.

RIVER OUSE RIVERFEST
Club to host a Riverfest on 25-26-27th November on Ouse around Hunters and Linton. All welcome . Tickets £10

BANK CLEARING HAMMERTON
Vote of thanks recorded to all volunteers

EASDIIIKE
Frim reported major bank work disturbance at the top end of Easediiike which ahs effectively made 600 yards hardly worth fishing - to be investigated

........... and from what I can remember - that was about it !!!

Postman Pat, Postman Pat, Postman Pat and his black and white Caaaaaaattt , early in the morning .......

[jgpark]

Hi Dave

Hope my minutes are as easy to write, I some how don't think they will be after last night.

Have a good day on Sunday and thanks to everyone in advance for their efforts, wish I could be there but can't be in two places at once

Regards
Graham

[frim]

Dave a few pics to go with your delegates report.
The Leeds and Liv pollution reports through tv and the locals were a case of "too little too late" and as usual the only people that could have and would have made a difference were not contacted (Anglers) the pollution dept of the EA were on the scene but as far as I was concerned didn't do enough and a lot of what was said was a bunch of crap. No fish rescue was attempted ! They took bags full of dead fish away to make it less smelly for jo public but the fish that were still alive and struggling were just left hoping they would recover, bloody scandalous. We were there off our own backs over three days at different times and all we saw was a lot of nothing been done, not good when clean oxygenated water (River Aire) was only 20yds away.
Every cut off was like this.



A few hours with landing nets saved hundreds of fish but we were peeing in the wind, one of the big surprises though was the number of Eels we got over a dozen up to just over a pound.



This was a bonny Tench,



and Rudlett





Nearly all the fish we took to the river recovered after a few gulps of fresh water and swam away strongly, nice to see but could have been better.


Just to carry on the gripe of lack of feedback to Anglers in general, had a walk down Boston to the top of our water.



Nearly every bit of stick ripped up over 500yds.
Regards
Steve.

[rushy]

That poor Tench , you can almost see it in it's eyes "Please help , get me out of here !! "

Well done on your efforts to rescue what fish you could Steve.

The raping of the bank at Eseeedike is scandalous - lets hope whoever is responsible has no further plans to continue downstream - not much point in paying to fish that 500 yards

[shaned]

ye great effort lads (to all involved)

I cant believe someone would rip-up that much river bank without any communication to the club..........

[gcb]

First I knew of it was seeing the report on BBC Look North. As you say what a shame social media could not have been used by the EA to ask for volunteers to rescue some of these fish. Fantastic that some of the fish were rescued by steve and his pals.
geoff

[mortia]

What does the club know about the Easedike bank work ?
Were we consulted about it ?
Who carried out the work ?
I know that in flood situations this was an area where water got out of the river channel & in to the fields. Was the farmer responsible ? Just downstream is a shallow area of gravels that is a regular spawning area.
cheers
Andy