Hello guys, excuse the back hit in the background, I'm back in Canesham town. Just outside Bristol on the River 2 fishing a public stretch Car park right behind me Still the depths of winter so I'm fishing an ultra light set up three pound line on real On a half pound line on the hook length and that's tied to a Cameras and to B540 ultra light wide hook to breadflake with a free running rotten bottom That's on the two pound line as well just some split shot and the only thing stopping that from coming down to the hook length Is the knot that's because it's so many snacks here You've got a duck pond just opposite Rats swimming around look lovely But that duck pond means there's always a steady Anount of feed going into the roach there are a few barbell in here perch trout We even had brailing here, so I'm not sure what's gonna to show up might be nothing at all just crystal clear I'm not gonna put any bait out because that could be a kiss of death because the sheer number of minos You really don't want them at home in on your bait Gillis win, so probably got a couple of hours of light. I'm gonna be fishing with I'll make just seeing who's you know a couple of pegs up that way. I think he's hoping for something a bit more sizable Yeah, for Sean let's take him to the other side of the river line. He wants that If that's a roach, it's a nice one Could be you know Clutch singing You might be a small chub. Let's see in a minute Could of course be a trout here those in here. It's quite funny because it just tames just in the Chub a few and far between now and here In the road slad Two and a half pound bottom two pound bottom. Oh, yes done. Yeah, whoops There you go. I'll give you a close look actually To be all seen a chub before for those that haven't that come down in this you get an awful lot of base on this river The chub They give the loans that in came in at the back there Okay, nice job So for Sean, it's not good for Sean that's not the snag Yes gone. Why is it that bit? This line in case it's a fish that's taking me into the snag It's It's that That's on there a bit of chopped pork I'm brand lunch and meat. Oh nice nice one I thought it was a big girl a big boat on the torch like I mean Big trekking here's no Do you say again or two pounds? Or bigger than that. Oh, yeah, yeah To not to not yeah, they're very nice It's been a few years since I fished Cancun Memorial Park It was nice to see the water flowing and it was nice to see chub re appearing so I'm seeing many of those for a while And I was actually getting quite concerned I got home to find an email from an old friend of mine Letting me know that about half a mile upstream. There's been a significant change in the river dynamics the flow Which has got alarm bells ringing so I'm now up at Chuteson Place about half a mile up river to go and have a look So downstream is is flowing nicely always good to see the water movement got the other side Wow The hatches raised fully Right, so what do I make of that? I'm absolutely shocked I imagine it's an intentional Conservation effort it could be because they need to do some engineering work on the banks, but I don't think so if you've watched my YouTube channel for a while you'll know that there's quite a few trout fishing videos of me and my ear and fishing on the river too Further up I'm gonna have to go up and investigate because if it's this low here I dread to think what it's like up river Here we've got a massive island of silks that's been deposited and captured by all the Woody debris That's presumably a fallen tree. Yeah, there's the root fallen tree and it's picks up all the silk and strangled the river and that's that gives you an idea of what the river is going to be reduced to If this This is the way it's going to be in the future the river is going to be shrunk Hi there, so I just have to chop off a camera away from you I'm doing a video on on the river. It's the river that means a lot to me I just want to see you knew anything about the the lowered water levels. Do you know anything about it? Brilliant, just a person to talk to there. Yes, I know. I'm not on camera. I can switch it off if you like that's fine Just had an interesting chat with the lady who has lived next to this river for a number of years and seen it go down hill in her words over the last 20 and in her words the river Management has focused purely on pollution in Replacement of everything else that needs to be done to a river that's so heavily Altered by by man. That's all falling in So my left that's falling in The walk around here a little bit further Where the water's whizzed around this corner You can see the bank stability here Bass gone that tree will be in the river by next year So will all that mud This river has just gone downhill rapidly Because no one wants to manage it. It's a river that needs managing you can't defeat the whole of Bristol their water supply Without managing that that water down stream The trees are falling in the banks are falling apart and The river is on its knees in the summer because of lack of flow Tube alie lake was drawn down to its lowest I've ever known it to be over the summer And there's not enough compensatory flow going into the river to keep the the wildlife going Looks like a beach It's just sand Sand everywhere Right on our uplands bridge Normally this is underwater you can see from the spit that's coming out that the waters dropped down here by at least talk Re and the floods in Canesham of 1968 that killed eight people Were caused by debris in floods hitting a bridge As you lower the water level down in the banks it reduces the stability of them and increases a number of trees falling into the river This is actually A flood issue and also could compromise the bridges The Canterman Gling Association have had fishing rights long this river for well over a hundred years. I think now Perhaps one of the most revealing things about this is the amount of pipes that I'm seeing that You didn't know were there All-politing putting road runoff and other potential pollutants into the river But as you can see the banks are really steep and that's because the river chew used to have About two-thirds more water in it. It's shrunk Leaving these great big steep sides either side But this is a managed river you can't you can't rewild something that's got a reservoir holding back water for an entire city So what's my conclusion firstly? It might be a temporary thing if it's an engineering The climate on that wall at down at Chuton Place I find it bizarre to think that they would And how the whole of this river stretch to be dropped just to do that little bit of work because what they could have done is put a Bunder cross and Diverted flow just to isolate that one little area If it's a wildlife conservation effort where was the consultation or public announcements? What a mess And it's increasingly starting to look like this throughout its course what you got to remember is that The tube antelake is at its capacity. It's overflowing the out spill is putting water into this river Most of the year it's not I'm gonna go and visit the former president of Canesha Mangling Association Just lived in Canesha Mollies life, I think I see if he can shed any light as to what's going on Wow, so gone and seen the ex-present at Canesha MAA We both exchanged our theories as to what the cause was of the river dropping both speculating that maybe it was Bristol Averson, Bristol Avers Trust or Conservation efforts in place Um after good chat. I went down back to Chuton Place, rang on the doorbell and just asked the owner Outright whether he was anything to do with dropping the river and his answer was yes The environment agency have given him full license to be in control of the sluice there And he can do as he pleases his dropped out so he can do some maintenance work on the elite and the wall that I showed you earlier He actually seems genuinely concerned when I started to tell him the consequences that that would have on the fish population Um and explain to him how it would present an even bigger issue in the summer when the river's not flowing From over spill on Chuvalli Lake and Chumagna reservoir Uh, yeah, I think you actually seem slightly concerned there My frustrations therefore are directed at the environment agency The environment agency have put in stocks of barbel in that stretch We looked at confediculatively for 2011 2012 2013 Stocking the river with barbel will all those fish now have been flushed out because that bloke living at Chuton Place is entitled just to lift the hatches and empty the river It just blows my mind that environmental management could be placed in the hands of a wealthy landowner um Who happens to have a sluice on his property Just blows my mind You