High Ongar Roding Weir
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High Ongar Roding Weir
Apart from a slight increase in Oxygen I can't see the point. Top photo original weir and bottom new stepped weir. Any ideas? sorry photos from opposite sides
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Re: High Ongar Roding Weir
Another month or two and there'll be no flow and choked with weed... it was last year... shame as its a lovely little river... our section from Langford Bridge downstream has very few fish now
Just one more cast love, and I'll be on me way home
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Re: High Ongar Roding Weir
Probably to enable eel migration.
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Re: High Ongar Roding Weir
Definitely looks like a fish ladder but not for Eels, they are like long rectangular boxes filled with bristles
The old weir is similar in design to the counting weir on the Wally which has an Eel ladder attached and also in the last few years had spikes put in the centre to help Sea Trout get over it, I would imagine the stepped Roding weir is to aid coarse fish movement.
The old weir is similar in design to the counting weir on the Wally which has an Eel ladder attached and also in the last few years had spikes put in the centre to help Sea Trout get over it, I would imagine the stepped Roding weir is to aid coarse fish movement.
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Re: High Ongar Roding Weir
As Aitch says, the first ingredient it needs is some water and sadly that is scarce on the Roding in summer.
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Re: High Ongar Roding Weir
I can remember watching a programme with Jack Hargreaves in the 70's with him raising his concerns about water extraction and the lack of flow in our rivers leading to them silting up and covering the gravel beds used by fish for breeding.
I'm quite fortunate in that the river Blackwater that I fish is used to transfer water from the Ouse to Hanningfield Reservoir otherwise it would be in the same condition as the Roding I'm sure as it is the only fishable swims are a couple of deep corners and a weir pool.
I'm quite fortunate in that the river Blackwater that I fish is used to transfer water from the Ouse to Hanningfield Reservoir otherwise it would be in the same condition as the Roding I'm sure as it is the only fishable swims are a couple of deep corners and a weir pool.
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Re: High Ongar Roding Weir
Most of the Roding is heavily overgrown and abstraction had decimated its flow... sadly with Mink, Otters, Cormorants, and Pollution its a pale shadow of the lovely river from my youth
Just one more cast love, and I'll be on me way home
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Re: High Ongar Roding Weir
Hi All
I done a Eel survey with the zoological society at Bow on the river Lea about 12 years ago and we caught more Chinese Mitten Crabs than Eels in our trap.
I done a Eel survey with the zoological society at Bow on the river Lea about 12 years ago and we caught more Chinese Mitten Crabs than Eels in our trap.
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Re: High Ongar Roding Weir
This is what we need all year round
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