Be very careful what everyone wishes for in terms of restrictions to angling on the Wear. Once the freedom we currently enjoy has gone, it definitely will not come back.
The summer / autumn run is cyclical. Should the autumn run come back after an October ban(the autumn run will return), we'd be watching tide fresh fish run through Durham every October with never a hope in hell to fish for them. Poachers heaven.
C&R will never be reversed. C&R is not a stock management tool, if it was there would be an ounce of logic behind it, it is a political / ecomentalist direction which will never be reversed.
If you looked at this thread, you'd think all fish in the upper river are black and gravid right now. The fact is they are not. The blackest fish I've seen on the Wear this season are those two from this thread. I've seen many photos of much cleaner fish, not tide fresh, but nowhere near as black as those fish, which makes their capture and death even more shameful.
So don't tar every fisherman and every fish with the same brush. Salmon fishing in October is fine along the whole river.
The summer / autumn run is cyclical. Should the autumn run come back after an October ban(the autumn run will return), we'd be watching tide fresh fish run through Durham every October with never a hope in hell to fish for them. Poachers heaven.
C&R will never be reversed. C&R is not a stock management tool, if it was there would be an ounce of logic behind it, it is a political / ecomentalist direction which will never be reversed.
If you looked at this thread, you'd think all fish in the upper river are black and gravid right now. The fact is they are not. The blackest fish I've seen on the Wear this season are those two from this thread. I've seen many photos of much cleaner fish, not tide fresh, but nowhere near as black as those fish, which makes their capture and death even more shameful.
So don't tar every fisherman and every fish with the same brush. Salmon fishing in October is fine along the whole river.