THROWING 'EM OFF THE SCENT - DID WOLDALE HOLD "MONSTERS?"

This forum belongs to Woldale.
User avatar
Shaun Harrison
Zander
Posts: 3561
Joined: Wed Aug 08, 2012 4:34 pm
11
Location: Nottinghamshire/Derbyshire Border
Contact:

Re: THROWING 'EM OFF THE SCENT - DID WOLDALE HOLD "MONSTERS?

Post by Shaun Harrison »

Possibly when there is little left to eat but whilst food is there in a place hardly ever disturbed by man....

User avatar
Skeff
Crucian Carp
Posts: 908
Joined: Thu Jul 12, 2012 9:53 pm
11

Re: THROWING 'EM OFF THE SCENT - DID WOLDALE HOLD "MONSTERS?

Post by Skeff »

I agree Shaun. Pitt Pond, which I wrote about in my book, was so similar to Woldale. The otter kept returning until it had eaten every fish over the course of a winter. Lovely Leneys to upper thirties in weight. Even then it didn't move on but kept returning to feed on the crayfish. Piles of carp scales were replaced by piles of carapaces. Fencing is the only effective measure that's legal I'm afraid and that just isn't a practical proposition at Woldale, in the same way that it wasn't at Pitt...

User avatar
Snape
Bailiff
Posts: 9982
Joined: Sun Sep 04, 2011 11:52 am
12
Location: North Oxfordshire
Contact:

Re: THROWING 'EM OFF THE SCENT - DID WOLDALE HOLD "MONSTERS?

Post by Snape »

FarliesBirthday wrote:It's there any chance of the otters moving on eventually, - as they apparently did at Redmire and which they certainly did at a local pool I fish, without any human intervention?
For info Redmire does have a measure of otter fence which extends along the dam wall and prevents an otter moving up stream from below. I'm not sure whether is has made a difference but as there is also 'Little' Redmire below the main pool which holds lots of smaller fish so maybe the otter was happy to feed there and so avoid the fence.
“Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers,” Herbert Hoover.
`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸ ><((((º>

User avatar
Gary Bills
Rainbow Trout
Posts: 3070
Joined: Sun Sep 04, 2011 6:57 pm
12
Location: Herefordshire

Re: THROWING 'EM OFF THE SCENT - DID WOLDALE HOLD "MONSTERS?

Post by Gary Bills »

At Woldale, might it be possible to increase the human presence this winter, - a kind of temporary otter watch rota, to scare them off?
The farm pond near me, which had an otter problem, is surrounded by heavily worked farmland, and perhaps that saved most of the fish..?

GazTheAngler

Re: THROWING 'EM OFF THE SCENT - DID WOLDALE HOLD "MONSTERS?

Post by GazTheAngler »

12 bore with a silencer!! (Jasper Carrot and his moles).

what M'Lud, Mr Otter must have moved on or got run over!

Gaz

SensiDave

Re: THROWING 'EM OFF THE SCENT - DID WOLDALE HOLD "MONSTERS?"

Post by SensiDave »

I took a couple of walks around Woldale during July and August this year. Didn't see much sign of otters; mind you didn't see many carp either. Plenty of smaller fish around and the lakes looked great, silting up a little though.

Post Reply

Return to “Woldale”