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Spill probe as beauty spot lake reopens
THE CHASE beauty spot where thousands of rare fish died after a sewage leak has been reopened as investigators continue inquiries into the cause and long-term effects of the spill. The spill - in the form of a grey fungus -covered large areas of water in the 250-acre National Trust-owned beauty spot at Woolton Hill, near Newbury last month. A walker reported the spill after seeing dead fish including brown trout and endangered bullhead and lamprey floating on the surface. The Environment Agency estimated more than 2,000 fish had died along with other marine life in the chalk stream and an adjoining lake. An agency spokesman said this week: "The National Trust has reopened the area but is warning people not to swim or let their pets go in the water. .
Chubs making a comeback at Strawberry
During the C.A.S.T. (Catch a Special Thrill) event held on Strawberry this past Saturday, I had the opportunity to take a look at the chub population in the Soldier Creek portion -- and the picture wasn't a pretty one. "We've been catching fish right and left," said George Sommer, current president of the TBF Bass Federation, "but all we've caught are adult chubs." It was a fact that the area Sommer and his C.A.S.T. participants were fishing showed a water column littered with adult chubs, that swarmed each bait as it fell towards the bottom. "We thought the cuts (cutthroats) would be biting," continued Sommer, "but we can't seem to get through all the chubs." The same story was repeated several times Saturday. Each time I approached a boat, my fish finder came alive with schools of chubs, which were confirmed as I moved slowly through the shallows so that the chubs became visible to the naked eye.
The mad science of lake fishing
Many anglers cut their fishing teeth in lakes with their first tiny spinning rod and trusty red and white bobber. Out comes the cottage cheese container to hold worms dug from the garden. Then off to the lake novice anglers fly, hoping to catch their first, and as the years go by, second and subsequent fish.
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