April - 2022

The holy trinity on the river Wye

Twaite shad , Lamprey and Salmon all now running the river wye . But first they have to get past Sammy and his ever increasing family....

Lamprey on the menu this week

The rare Lamprey are now entering the river Wye to spawn. Sammy and his mates are having their fill making a change from the twaite shad...

A sewage discharge at low tide

Save the wye campaigner Angela Jones witnessed this close to Lydney upstream of our lave net fishery during the week. Sewage being...

20,000 facebook followers

With world wide interest in our facebook page it has hit the 20;000 followers mark . Not to bad for a bunch of lave netters . The page...

Sammy on the Shad

Here is Sammy or one of the sons of Sammy getting stuck into the Twaite Shad in the week . Sammy and the gang range well up into the...

A public fishery

The origins of the lave net are obscure but is most probably the ladenet of John Smyth of Nibley who writing in 1639 says "Howbeit in...