David Bradley

Fly fishing, fly tying and freshwater ecology. Rivers, streams and wild lakes. Director and Board of Trustees @severnrivers

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The Cheonggyecheon stream slap bang in the centre of downtown Seoul is a fantastic urban ecological restoration project, completed in 2005. Since then the local economy, public health and the natural environment have all measurably benefited 🏙️🐟🪳🌱🦆🏙️

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Sad news. Hugely underrated slide guitarist and songwriter. Britain’s answer to Ry Cooder. And what about that voice 😢 https://t.co/kLUhYrumCi

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Just 5 mins from home, but it’s been years since I last fished the Severn and caught a barbel. I’d forgotten the immense power and speed of these fish, even though they were just small ones tonight up to about 5 or 6lb

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@cerivthomas Fantastic, Ceri!

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@MerryAlbright @DaveThroup @Feargal_Sharkey The Onny (part of the Teme catchment) is the same. I’ve never seen it in this state before. I can’t imagine the grayling and trout surviving in this. Photo courtesy of Severn Rivers Trust

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I’ve never known the river this low and for so long. Lentic habitats are developing. This follows the biggest flood ever recorded in October 2024. I don’t know how the wonderful populations of trout and grayling can survive these conditions 😥 https://t.co/5URHY4R3i2

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I think we went to the only place in the UK that didn’t have a heatwave this weekend. Blaenau Ffestiniog was cold, wet and windy. Perfect weather for fishing the mountain llyns and many good fish were caught #fishinginwales #flyfishing #wildtrout

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It’s hard to believe that so soon after one of the wettest years on record, the UK is now staring into the face of drought. The weather over the next 2-3 weeks will determine how this plays out and we need to act now on important lessons learned in 2022

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Beautiful and slightly eerie on the river tonight as the mist descended, everything went quiet and the fish stopped rising, just before darkness #dryflies #wildtrout #flyfishing #shropshirehills

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@DireStraits77 Gifted to Jeff Healey who did a wonderful job 🎸

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Not the biggest, but one of the best conditioned and difficult to catch trout of the year from this little river. Good hatch of medium olives, swarms of black flies and a few large brook duns had the fish in feeding mode this afternoon #shropshirehills @flyfishing #wildtrout

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@the_river_nomad We do, but don’t know when we’re going to get them 🌧️🌧️🌧️🌧️🌧️🌧️🌧️🌧️🌧️

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@the_river_nomad The dream ��😎🍻

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@BIGBASSINTHESM1 For sure. Although it’s relatively warm and dry in the UK for this time of year. Lovely but a bit eerie too 🤔

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Back on home water with dry flies and jet lag, straight back from LAX 😎🎣 #shropshirehills #flyfishing #dryflyaddict

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@symeew13 Andy Powell

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@the_river_nomad Yep, all on a single nymph. A few LDOs fluttering, but nothing to get the fish to the surface

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The #wildtrout season has started on the #Shropshirehills rivers 🎉🎣

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@MattHayesfish Thanks Matt, I love exploring Shropshire rivers as I know you do. I fished the River Rea today in the first week of the new season. A river I know you also know and love 🥰 Plenty of good trout on nymphs 😉🎣

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@MattHayesfish Closer to home, the yellow mayfly, Potamanthus luteus, was extremely rare and in the past 5-10 years has really expanded in the middle Severn. These were on my car and in my bedroom one morning a couple of years ago in Bridgnorth

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@MattHayesfish Hi Matt, yes, it does seem completely counter-intuitive in the face of all the reports of river pollution in the UK. Here’s a link to the research for you to check out https://t.co/UKfAmMnpfV

Improving trends have slowed in the past decade though…..