South Cumbria Kingfishers

Kent

Following talks with Burneside Angling Association, or neighbours on the Kent, we have agreed to reciprocal rights between our adjacent fisheries on the Kent and Sprint. They own the rights on both banks above and below us, and the opposite bank, so they have us surrounded.

The reciprocal rights arrangement will create a double bank fishery of 2.5km on the Kent, from the Sprint junction up to Cowan Head; plus some more fishing on the Sprint.

In outline the agreement is :
  • There will be reciprocal rights between the members of Burneside Anglers and Penny Parrock for all their waters on the Kent and Sprint. i.e. Members of both organisations can fish all waters held by either organisation on the Kent or Sprint.
  • As the locals Burneside would take responsibility for managing the whole fishery. Penny Parrock members to abide by Burneside rules when fishing the Kent.
  • No change to documentation carried required, Burneside Anglers or Penny Parrock ticket equally valid as proof of identity and right to fish.
  • Agreement to be on a rolling one year basis, i.e. either party can pull out at the end of the year if they feel the agreement is not working fairly for them.

Please see this Map so see the extent of the fishing now available to us.

The rational behind this move is that we will still have the same number of people who can fish the same amount of water in total, but individually we will have more water to go at. So hopefully this will be a win-win for all concerned.

We have somewhat underutilised our Kent fishery. Hopefully this will encourage our members to use it more.

Groins and posts in place.

CRAKE

On June 28 and 29th 2005 the planned in river improvement work was carried out on our stretch of the Crake. Salmon spawn in this section every year, but results are always poor. The problem appears to be the sand sized finings in the gravel which reduce water flow through the gravel and hence oxygenation of the eggs, causing them to die.

The objective of the work was to try to change the water flow so that the river itself will do the work of providing better spawning gravel.

Above Bouthrey Bridge, and below the Lobster Pot there are now 2 triangular groins on the west bank, and two lines of posts on the East bank. Over time deposits will naturally build up behind the posts - it is hoped!



The new variable water flows (instead of the previous canal like section with very even flow) should change the nature of the river bed over time, making some deposits of clean loose gravel - at least that is the theory. This may take several years, we should not expect any dramatic improvements in the short term.

From a fishing point of view there may now be more interest in this section as there will be more pool - riffle - glide sequences. The work was not carried out to improve angling conditions on this stretch, but it will certainly not have make anything worse.

The Barge Hole and Lobster Pot remain as before. Access to the river was by the Barge Hole so there has been some disturbance of the banks here - this should quickly grow over again.

More pictures here

Created on 11/13/2004 03:44 PM by pennypar
Updated on 03/27/2006 09:24 AM by ppwebmaster 		 Printable Version
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South Cumbria Kingfishers