The Traditional Fisherman's Forum

I am trying to avoid giving a running commentary as the project is complicated and stressful enough already without dealing with the inevitable barrage of comment and speculation on social media but I will let everyone know what's happening as each stage of the project is completed. I know many here will have a particular interest in the work.

After two exceptionally hard days work by the netting team this week, we have successfully removed all of the fish and sorted those that are to be returned from those that may have ghost carp genes in them, which will be sold and removed from Bernithan. That in itself is a major step forwards and restores the "pure" provenance of the Redmire stock. We will return only fifty hand picked carp to give them room to thrive, grow and reproduce. The carp and gudgeon removed are being kept in safety on the estate.

De-silting starts tomorrow.

Thank you for the update Skeff it is appreciated as I am sure some of the other chaps will confirm.

Well done to all those concerned with this project.

Thankyou Skeff, for this update - and for posting future stage completions as and when appropriate.

PP

Nice to hear how things are going I may have seen an image earlier of the water drained .

Well done Skeff.
Will the 50 returnees all be over 20lb?

Snape wrote: ↑Thu Sep 27, 2018 9:38 pm Well done Skeff.
Will the 50 returnees all be over 20lb?

I'm not at liberty to talk about the size of the fish Snape (already lots of speculation social media!) but they have been selected carefully on the basis of good evidence to ensure that the ghost carp gene pool from the inadvertent stocking of about twelve years ago has been eliminated. We found a number of ghost carp during the work.

Cheers for the update.

There is obviously going to be a lot of interest on this project so hearing an update”from the horses mouth” ( no offence meant ) keeps misinformation or even disinformation at bay.

Mark - sincere thanks to you for your passion and energy and expertise. Personally, I shan't be commentating on each update you post but wish you to know that the work you are doing is indeed very much appreciated by a number of us who believe and value history and what it can offer the present and future.
Kind regards
Matthew

Great to hear it's all going well

Skeff wrote: ↑Thu Sep 27, 2018 9:54 pm

Snape wrote: ↑Thu Sep 27, 2018 9:38 pm Well done Skeff.
Will the 50 returnees all be over 20lb?

I'm not at liberty to talk about the size of the fish Snape (already lots of speculation social media!) but they have been selected carefully on the basis of good evidence to ensure that the ghost carp gene pool from the inadvertent stocking of about twelve years ago has been eliminated. We found a number of ghost carp during the work.

Glad to hear it. I have noticed a bit of speculation on t'net.

More importantly though, is how big were the gudgeon?!