Category Archives: CALPAC Work Party Blog

I have spent two short sessions at the Speringbrook Sewer fishery recently, to start the swim preparations for the glorious 16th. This fishery is always a little daunting when no work has been done until June, because of the rate the vegetation grows at this time of year. I have managed to create clear accessContinue reading “Speringbrook Sewer Fishery Snargate”

I have always thought that it is a good thing to save the best to last, which is why the main work party at Padworth is always the final one on the calendar. The reason for this being the help I have always been given by members of Thatcham Angling Association. From the moment weContinue reading “Padworth Fishery River Kennet”

This was my final visit to our Yalding Two Fishery, so I could finish the preparations for the ‘Glorious 16th’. It looked very different from my last visit in March, when everything was looking very bare with the lack of vegetation. Both the River Medway and River Beult looked resplendent in the evening sun, andContinue reading “Yalding Two Fishery”

This was the first official work party of the year since the lockdown started. It was very easy to social distance when you’re working on a stretch of river that’s 1500m long, and there’s only three of you. The work mainly comprised of fallen tree clearance, because of the very windy winter we experienced. TheContinue reading “River Mole Fishery”

Continuing with the solo work party theme, I was to be found this week preparing the Bulls Lock Fishery for the opening of the river season on the 16th June. Like any natural river fishery, the vegetation had grown significantly since the warmer weather had arrived. Not to be deterred, I highlighted the five availableContinue reading “Bulls Lock Fishery River Kennet”

With the announcement that angling was able to resume on Wednesday 13th May, I decided that I would pay a visit on Saturday 16th May to the CALPAC fishery at Padworth, to carry out some bank side work along the river. It has been my intention to take advantage of the increase in the BrownContinue reading “Padworth Fishery River Kennet”

Whilst the rest of the angling community were either wetting a line, or dreaming about it now that angling is back on the agenda, I took the opportunity to visit the River Mole fishery at Cobham. Not to fish I must say at this point, but to carry out some fishery work in readiness forContinue reading “River Mole Fishery”

This is obviously a lonely time to be a Fisheries Officer carrying out essential fishery work, but I managed to get a great deal of work completed at the Yalding Two fishery on Saturday 28th March. Flood damage to the fishery was very minimal, which was very helpful. I managed to create better access toContinue reading “Yalding Two Fishery”