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Bulletin Board and Fish Counter figures
The Bulletin Board page is a place to offer news and announcements about members, and also to let members communicate with each other.
 
And talking of communication if anyone has a good photo of the River or a fish they've caught, have them scanned and email them along and I'll see if we can put them on the Photo page.
 
Talking of Fish and decent Fish here a link to the British Freshwater fish records http://www.anglerstimes.co.uk/recordsfreshwater.htm
Nice to think some-one could get a British record from our water.
Announcements
Updates
In the 2008 Season the Club will again stocked with Triploid Brown Trout. That's Trout that are sexless - neither male or female. The advantage of this is the fish are reportedly less territorial, don't breed and once released don't swim very far looking for a mate or new feeding grounds. First impressions from the Club members is the Brown Trout fishing was reasonably successful in past seasons so we'll be repeating the stocking of Triploids this season. There is some thought that perhaps Triploids aren't as good for a River as first thought. Because they are sexless and don't breed they stay put in a river throughout the year instead of moving upstream into smaller streams to breed but stay and feed on the insect life and other food in that particular stretch of the river and, so it is thought, in the spring there is less food for the small fry and parr and returning trout to feed on.  
     
We now have a map, courtesy of the Ordnance Survey, showing the extent of our waters.

There are talks afoot to amalgamate the Salmon & Trout association with the ACA, NAFAC & the NFA to create a more powerful fishing lobby.


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The Month in Review
and Durham fish Pass Counter Figures

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First Salmon of the 2006 season goes to Grant Lowery who was spinning in the Park area and hooked and landed an 8lb Salmon on Thursday 23rd March 2006. 
First salmon of the 2005 season goes to Jimmy Readhead who caught and returned a lovely 20lb salmon from just below Bog Wood
The First Salmon of the 2004 season was caught by Kevin Birkett from Sunderland, he caught a 5.5lb Salmon at Cocken.
 The First Salmon of the 2003 season was caught by Terry Palfryman who caught a 9.5lb cock Salmon at Cocken on Friday 9th May.  
If anyone is fishing in the area above the Bishop's Pool at Cocken could you please keep an eye out for Anglers that shouldn't be there and ask them or anyone you see for their membership card. We have had reports of Anglers spinning for and killing a good deal of our Brown Trout from this area. These are your fish that you've paid for so just politely ask anyone you don't know to see their Membership Card and show them yours too.
Monthly Fish Count figures for River Wear at Durham

On 15th March 2007 the counter at Framwellgate was restored to fully operational with the major technical problems of 2006 rectified.  On inspection extensive damage to the cables and electrode arrays in the channels had occured and work has now been completed to repair the faults. Further improvements to the Framwellgate site are planned for 2007 these are to include installation of under water cameras to assist in the validation process.

Figures are now in and they are:
It would appear that there are no figures available for any month after May 2007.
May          2007           214
January     2006           69*
December 2005           70
November 2005          69*
October 2005          2358*
September 2005      2459* Figs with a * are a "guesstimate" as the Fish counter was not giving correct readings apparently.
August       2005      2547
July            2005     6,301
June           2005     1,472
May           2005        130 
No data available between Sept 04 and April 05.
September 2004     3,931
August       2004     4,958
July           2004      6,142
June           2004     4,362
May           2004        238
April          2004        175
March        2004          24
Feb            2004            0
Jan             2004          15 
If any Member has a an Email address then please sent me it so I can Email you all as soon as any News breaks! Also I can send Newsletters out to members alot quicker and best of all there is no postage to pay!! saving the club a bob or two!
Membership continues to rise with new members as well as old members or "fisherpersons!!" re-joining after a period of a no. of years.

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