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A thought..........
Salmon angling on our rivers was once a sport for the "Gentry " , certainly on the mighty river Wye . The most successful was the...
Marvellous low tide finds
From time to time our fishermen stumble across the bones of animals some of which are thousands of years old and are from the times when...
Ecology
Good old ecology , rolls off the tongue lovely .Sammy and the gang up on the river Wye showing how its done this week again . Back on the...
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...
A Seal trail..............
A Chepstow arts group has secured funding for a SEAL TRAIL in Chepstow ,celebrating good old Sammy the seal . They have uttered the magic...
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