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Post by tim1984 on Nov 7, 2015 23:17:09 GMT
Is this stretch of the Ure fly fishing water?
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Post by jgpark on Nov 8, 2015 7:38:34 GMT
It is an all methods venue and some parts do lend themselves to fly fishing
Regards Graham
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Post by ronnie on Nov 8, 2015 9:02:43 GMT
There's good fly fishing sport for brownies below the bridge, not to any great size, when you get past the parr. Going to have a go for grayling this winter.
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Post by av1nbarb3l on Nov 8, 2015 10:54:19 GMT
good for chub is the upper ure some big fish too plus odd barbel and its stuffed with brown trout 
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Post by tim1984 on Nov 8, 2015 11:57:17 GMT
Salmon??
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Post by jgpark on Nov 8, 2015 12:36:45 GMT
Could be
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Post by johnboy66 on Nov 8, 2015 20:42:47 GMT
Yh Tim,
quite a few years ago now me and my mate fished the Bradford no1 stretch right bank 1/2 way between the pub and the bridge.
I was worm fishing with 1 large split shot on under a bush, only been in 5 mins and as I was bringing it in a really good size salmon leapt out of the water for the worm right in front of me. I can still picture it in my head like it happened today,
I have told a few people now not many believe me but I don't care me and my friend know what we saw, and a picture in the head is better than a picture on a card you can nether loose that pitcher.
JB.
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Post by gcb on Nov 8, 2015 21:34:55 GMT
Jb it is common knowledge that there are more fish running the ure at the moment than most Scottish rivers. People are targeting them on the fly and catching them. Remember your coarse licence does not entitle you to fish for salmon !!
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Post by rushy on Nov 8, 2015 22:15:45 GMT
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Post by johnboy66 on Nov 8, 2015 23:03:09 GMT
Jb it is common knowledge that there are more fish running the ure at the moment than most Scottish rivers. People argeting them on the fly and catching them. Remember your coarse licence does not entitle you to fish for salmon !! can`t stop the salmon going for my bait in the trout season, and I was probably talking about 15 / 20 years ago when there was no talk about salmon up there or even lower down the river
thank you very much !!!
I have also had a fishing licence for 33 years so I think I no what the rules are, and have not broken 1 rule in any of that time.
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Post by gcb on Nov 8, 2015 23:20:43 GMT
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Post by tim1984 on Nov 9, 2015 6:38:43 GMT
Well I have been thinking about having a look myself to understand the water as that's probably best, I was debating if it's not a fly water not to bother with leeds book next year. When does Salmon season start? I know our season on the Eden start 25th of January but I presume the Ure is later as close season was the 31st of October.
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Post by ronnie on Nov 9, 2015 8:14:21 GMT
Keep it quiet about salmon, we don't want book prices going up or an extra ticket needed to fish it. I had a salmnon from the ure about 20 years ago but that was on the bottom field at Newby Hall. And i put it back. Yorkshire river authority used to have a salmon breeding station and they would release the parr up at Coverdale and Middleham and catch them at Mickley, near Tanfield, when they headed for the sea as smolt. Then they would put them in aeration tanks and take them down to the other side of Hull before releasing them, to get them past the pollution. This was in the seventies, so the salmon in the Ure now are probably descendants of these.
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Post by gcb on Nov 9, 2015 18:48:34 GMT
You are right about the possible price hike in books Ronnie. I think Mt Bourne- Ayton from tanfield lodge lake and Brian Moreland from Bellflask are involved in developments on the upper Ure.
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Post by grayson on Nov 10, 2015 8:10:28 GMT
I don't know about Brian Morland but if you check out the Ure Salmon Trust website you will find out lots about salmon in the upper river. The trust employ at least one ex EA guy(Dave Bamford) and have done a good job in promoting the river which is now a viable prospect for salmon sport in Autumn . The then YORB did indeed stock lots of fry in 70s (which I thought was an idiotic vanity project when rivers had far bigger problems than no salmon ) but the river didn't really start to come back until more recently . The Trust have done some good habitat work but the main reason for salmon return is not what the Trust have done but for a simpler reason -for decades the Humber didn't have enough dissolved oxygen to enable salmon to run except where there were major floods bringing cleaner water . Industry has declined and the Humber has become cleaner , hence the salmon have found it easier to run.The upper Ure has always been clean - unlike he lower Ouse and Humber .
The Trust was also successful in getting significant EU funding grant aid from the County Council which,given the landowning interests involved in the Trust, was arguably not the best use of grant aid- but they applied for it and they got it so good luck to them.
Let's just say salmon are a mixed blessing and when I was told by the EA that they were doing habitat work on a beck local to me "to enable salmon migration " I didn't know whether to laugh or cry . The water in question is tiny , has never had a salmon run , is a tributary of the almost salmon free Swale, has been badly affected by drainage board work in the past and has too many signal crays . Despite this it has cracking trout and grayling fishing - and I really do not want to see the "Iconic Salmon", as an EA guy termed them to me , coming back .
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