I thought I knew this river?? The change is amazing..
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.พ. 2025
- Graeme does a spot of fishing while collecting some footage of a river he used to fish a lot many years Ago…But he is amazed at the changes, and luckily he can call upon his selection of vintage colour slides to show the total change in as little as 30 years….what a good job he held on to his library of colour slides from the days when he was supplying fishing magazines and periodicals with articles and features on many places around the globe. It serves to illustrate to today’s generation that the many rivers they see today have totally changed in a comparatively short period of time. Enjoy…
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Well im 68 years old and i started fishing when i was 13 / 14 years old, and the difference between now and back then is unbelievable, the rivers are slowly dying and nobody seems to care :(
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Warwickshire Avon was my childhood River. Awful these days. Great film Graeme.
River colne in rickmansworth herts exactly the same such a shame, chris
Totally agree, lack of maintenance on our rivers!
It’s friday 7pm, TA Fishing time!!
Graham you need to put one of your old rods in the museum you earn it 🎣🎣🎣
Graham you are 1 hundred percent corect this i one of your finest vlog/videos to date i am about to fish areas of the river kennet i have not fished for 26years. It's all changed i just have to stay positive & see how it goes fingers are crossed 😊
Best time of the week 🎣🎣🎣
You never lost that kid inside you did you. Brilliant
Luckily...got to have a childish sense of humour,there's not much else left in this world...Even humour will be banned soon and someone will take offence at laughter !..
@TAFishing couldn't agree more graham , I find that childlike enthusiasm is hard to find as you get older , thankfully I still get it from fishing just like yourself... Ps vote reform
Appreciate all your hard work Graeme
Thanks for the comment. If I don't put up the older type material nobody will ever know what it used to look like.
It’s horrifying the state of the rivers now. Like you when I was 18 in 67 the fishing was terrific. I went back to that river after 40 years away. It was in a terrible state overgrown and choked with weeds. Couldn’t see even a minnow and not an angler at all on ac2mile stretch saw 2 otters and a few cormorants.
Sounds like I am preaching to the converted....Its like that on lots of rivers nowadays. Probably why we don't see many youngsters starting their fishing careers on flowing waters.
Hi Graham nice vid just thought I'd give a thumbs up but also share my thoughts on the river don it runs through our town in Sheffield and it was a filthy river for many a year due to industrial pollution but all that's changed now and all the pollution as gone due to massive clean ups and regulations and as a result it's so clean now touch wood that the salmon have returned they've just put two salmon runs in costing thousands I've seen the pike we've got nice grayling and trout perch you name it's in there hopefully all rivers might get some love and attention in the future look forward to next vid Graham, tight lines
So nice to hear of the good turnaround & long may it continue on the Don!
Broadly speaking, southern rivers have gone downhill while northern rivers have improved, particularly in their lower reaches. One of the few benefits of the end of industry. In between you have rivers like the Trent which have changed beyond recognition. It used to be a silver fish river, heavily coloured and artificially heated by coal power station outflows. Now arguably Britain's premier barbel river. Smaller rivers I fish are subject to agricultural run off, road salting, sewage, otters and cormorants, but throw up the occasional specimen barbel or chub between many blanks.
My home patch Graeme. Used to walk from my parents house across the fields, get my ticket at Davis tackle (which will sadly close at the end of this river season in a few weeks) & fish the small weir pool that empties out into the side stream on the right flank of Watersmeet. Where you said you used to dead-bait for big pike. Many cracking days fishing. The mismanagement of our rivers is criminal. The whole make up of the land surrounding the river has changed from grazing to essentially just bog for a few miles tracking up the avon towards Ringwood. The environment agency is unelected & accountable to no one. Couple that with Wessex Water being one of the worst for polluting the river, Christchurch harbour & Avon beach & it's a recipe for disaster.
"Just some river" - Aww Graeme, The Royalty was like Wembley to coarse fishers of my generation. The Royalty and Redmire were the big two.
Well done for highlighting the plight of our rivers seas and streams, neglected for year after year. Excuse after excuse whilst the shareholders cream off the profits and expect the public to pick up the tab once it's almost beyond rescue. Our little local River Mardyke ( from Bulphan to Purfleet spilling into the Thames) was a local jewel, not great for fishing but a beautiful walk along it's bank. Now it's choked up with weed, banks overgrown, footpaths blocked. Like most neglected issues it becomes normalized as to what is acceptable. What a sad society we have become.
Thanks for all your time and effort with this video👍 In my County Norfolk I understand most of the Barbel on the Wensum are gone due to otter predation. My local river the Waveney i have fished for 40 years in the non tidal sections and fish stocks of better quality fish have declined.Also vegetation growth is claiming back the river and choking it up big time.Cattle grazing breaks down the banks and silts up the river bed. The otters tamely swim around having a lovely time.I still go because it is my local river and i can find a little piece and quite in between the canoe's and paddle boarders going by😢
I see your point. You are still holding an attachment to the fishing you used to have so its always difficult to realise it may never be what it was. But being on the river is still a tranquil break ,even if the catches are tough.
Very true. I mainly fish the non tidal Waveney in the winter now and fish the tidal Waveney Yare and Bure the rest of the time👍
All our yesterday's 😂 still dreaming of a good pint after fishing 😂😂😂😂
Mine's a pint of Doom while your at it...Or better still a pint of Murphy's.(Might have to be shipped over from Ireland though)
@TAFishing when I was a lad fished entire lenght of the river lea beautiful ,Wanstead flats and park ,eagle pond happy days
It’s gone the totally opposite way for my local river, it was polluted something awful when the local mine was operating… no life whatsoever, and since the mine closed and then was demolished,the river has gone from strength to strength!
John Wilson said before he sadly passed that our waterways would be devastated by cormorant ( that should be at sea), mink and otters and he was so right, all that coupled with bad waterway management by the Environmental agency and poachers! they need to dredge and do more weed cutting as lots of rivers are getting choked and fishing is rapidly deteriorating!
Great vlog thanks for sharing
nice to be out is that a grinder slab cutter going in the back round 🤣🤣 weekends nope not me either, get a packet of rubber maggots one to top off hook is key to them staying on a barbless, thanks for sharing ❤
Happy Friday ❤🎣
I used to fish the Lower Royalty below the bypass bridge, not the expensive bit, as a teen in the mid 80's, had some amazing catches including a near hundred pound bag of bream once. I miss it very much indeed.
The very last frame with my mum holding one of the Roach I had was from the very same stretch...Left hand fork way downstream from Johnsons. But that was 1960's.
Can't believe there are no anglers, I used to be in a queue outside Davis Tackle!!!
@ I fished that swim once, wading with a bait apron and a bait dropper, that some great dace and chub, not a roach to be seen, I don't recall ever catching a roach from the Royalty!
Thx for the video. I can detect the sadness in your voice when talking about the decline of the Avon.
Its all rivers. I go through my old slides and see what used to be caught,on a fairly regular basis and it would be sadness for anyone who knew how the rivers used to fish. The problem is the current generation have no idea of the decline but older anglers will have seen the deterioration of habitat.
Brilliant memories graeme but it's like council workers all cut backs. So it's the same as rivers nobody clean them or work them . thanks for memories
I used to do a lot of the graft work on a local river myself....never bothered with permission I just took the tools and put my own time in. I am going to look out some slides to show I do not speak with forked tongue. I feel I can find them under "B" for Barbel !!The same swims now are barely fishable.
chimes with our region... we were never blessed with quality rivers in my locality (primarily Essex), but the Lea, Roding and Chelmer (and their tributaries) all produced quality fish, and were managed year to year in those days. They have all significantly deteriorated due to neglect, even the club stretches, plus the same predators munching through the stocks Graeme highlights here. My son doesn't bother with our rivers these days, he's a carp man (hundreds of 'em here), don't think he has caught a wild fish, so sad.
The rivers are so much different to fish than heaving out a boilie in a stocked lake,and of course I do that a few nights of the year (not at this time of year !).Rivers give you so many different species to catch with so many different methods. Or at least they used to.
Sadly Graeme we don't have the river keepers, lock keepers and fisheries managers. All the jobs went to save money. Also Water companies don't give a Sxxx what they dump in the rivers / waterways. They keep reducing the flow of water, just to supply new housing. Also the lack of flood plains, again built on for housing. The river keepers used to deliberately flood those plains. This provided nutrients for the land, but also slow release of water back into the waterways.
Can't disagree with your comment at all.
Sadly you couldn't flood the fields or flood plains now. Too many chemicals from pest control and artificial fertilizers
There was a match on my local river recently and 1st, 2nd and 3rd were all just 1 fish each! The club record is over 160lb! Let's hope it's not too late to reverse this trend
I heard similar in the local tackle shop today .Up in Norfolk something like 60 peg matches being won by a few pegs of low weight catches. If anyone has some old 1960's Angling Papers they could look up what sort of weights were recorded back then and the huge numbers of match anglers fishing.
The inescapable truth about most problems the world faces is that there are too many people each using up more and more resources.
And they say we need more growth ?...I can never get my head around how they build hordes of houses,and don't increase the capacity of the old sewer systems. The sewers are not going to be able to cope,and we all know where the surplus will be going.
Beautiful stretch of water.
hey our Graeme, do you do book signing? I'm collecting your books, because they are bloody awesome, and i would love to meet you some day and get thwm signed
So much abstraction, reducing the flow and allowing silt to build up on the gravel. Mixed with the low water quality from effluent and sewage, its a perfect storm that promotes weed growth and suffocates spawning beds. Very sad, but similar all over the country.
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I’m not a freshwater angler, but I’ve seen enough over the years to know that there are many reasons why rivers have become so bad, lack of maintenance, more predators, and too much 💩 being pumped in unregulated. And let’s not get started on shareholder dividends and huge salaries 🤬🎣🐟
Amd foreigners
Best they give river management money to anglers to clean up.
I do like Fridays 7pm because of TA fishing is on and I have the hole house to myself why the wife and kids are out couldn't ask for anything else
Surely you can shoot those cormorants on there Graeme? It's a private fishery, that's right isn't it? I fish the Kentish Stour, chalk stream, same problems 😪
I think you need some license or other...The Cormorants are so brazen now they must know they are safe.
@@TAFishing I remember an ex colleague and quite a famous angler who applied for a license to shoot cormorants on his lake, it took 3 years to come through and allowed him to shoot 1 a month, he "assumed" that his allocation was backdated and shot 30 of the buggers in a week.
the land is bournemouth waters. water and sewerage companies are so politically correct, they would not allow shooting incase you upset someone!! i know this after working many yrs for wessex water, but they never worried about the fish as always!!!
Graeme, I am honestly confused. I am not a fisherman. I just enjoy your show. In my coffee shop days, I had an old man say the new hotel on our river ruined the fishing because they took out all the grasses. I hear you complain about the growth in the river all the time. I don't understand.
river ecology is really sensitive, if you have a small pond you will know about weeds. My small pond, I grab a handful of pond weeds to remove and they are FULL of life, insects, eggs and snails etc
Graeme needs his own tv show !
I think I am unemployable..!..too many years of working on my own..I like to do what I want,when I want.
@TAFishing I get what you mean mate ! Thats what makes your channel so good. I stumbled across it probably 6 years ago. I never miss a video . Cracking channel matey
Well, I've fished spots from my younger days, even the land doesn't look the same. Nothing stands still, it's gg.
Even the posts holding my gates are moving ? Like the ground has moved and exposed the concrete footings...