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Leaping Sea Trout heading upstream to spawn
Pleased I could donate one of my leaping sea trout photos to help publicise Professor Jonny Grey of the Aire Rivers Trust and WTT's Tim Jacklin's fundraising paddle up the River Aire following the fish's migration route from the sea 50 miles up river.
Have a look at the full story on the Wild Trout Trust website by clicking here...
Sea trout like their cousins the salmon make their way upstream to spawn.
I was very pleased to be able to help out the Institute of Fisheries Management with their need for a sea trout image to grace the Spring 2016 cover of FISH, their very interesting members magazine.
Visiting likely locations to view and photograph leaping sea trout the last 3 years takes a lot of time and patience and there are plenty more occasions where nothing is seen than the few where I timed it just right. Still, having the chance to witness such a spectacular sight local to me in Sussex even just once a season makes all the cold muddy hikes across the countryside in the dead of winter worth it.
A sea trout leaps up a fish ladder on the River Ouse in the heart of Sussex
This recent image I took of a sea trout leaping up a fish ladder in Sussex this season has been published in the annual Winter newsletter of the Environment Agency's Fisheries, Biodiversity and Geomorphology team from the Solent and South Downs area.
The Winter 2015 newsletter contains lots of interesting news and information on all the main projects the Environment Agency team has been working on in the Solent and South Downs area over the last year and is well worth a read, with plenty of good photography to help illustrate the various projects.
You can read the newsletter online via the Wild Trout Trust website where it is being hosted by CLICKING HERE to view it.
