Thank you for that Rod. Wintersett and the surrounding area is a wonderful area for wildlife and an area that I have visited all my life.Rod Fisher wrote: ↑Thu Feb 22, 2024 7:54 amJonathan Haigh was a subscriber to Silk's 1882 endeavour and presented his share of the bass to Wintersett Angling Club. I don't know for certain which of the reservoirs the fish were stocked into, it just says "a portion [of Silk's fish] being intended for... the public reservoir near Wakefield".Wanderer wrote: ↑Thu Feb 22, 2024 2:41 am Interesting stuff, Rod. I had no knowledge that Black Bass had been stocked in Wintersett reservoir. A water that is close to me and that I have fished in the past.
Wintersett reservoir and the adjacent Cold Heindly reservoir were built as compensation reservoirs for the Barnsley canal and they are both large expanses of water.
Do you have any further information on the Wintersett stockings ?
As a boy I lived close by and my Dad used to take me walking around the area.
Incidentally, Charles Waterton, a well-known early naturalist, lived in the nearby Walton Hall and created his own nature reserve on the estate.
An area of water known locally as Botany Bay, which is the other side of the road to Wintersett, is the place where my Dad first took me to fish with tackle that I had been given.
I caught "nowt", as we say in Yorkshire, but it didn't put me off......