Longhorse Bridge

[Tracey Lacey]

At present we have no photographs of the demolition in 2003 – this was carried out by British Waterways who had barges beneath the sections as they were removed so very little went into the river – all major sections were taken away as it would not be in BW interest to have large sections of the bridge in the river and liable to damage passing boat traffic- after all its BW who is responsible for the safe navigation on this river.
I don’t think they would be concerned about anglers though ?

[kelvin booth]

Thankyou Alan, there does appear to be a lot of snags under the route the concrete bridge took from when the POD held matches along the stretch.
I wondered if it was due to concrete debris, that the water appears shallower than I recalled in the half dozen pegs downstream of the Derwent mouth. Like the flow has been altered in some way and a sand bank is forming.

[Tracey Lacey]

Of course we cannot guarantee no debris went into the river from the demolition of the Long Horse bridge but we did see the bridge taken down by British Waterways in a controlled manner.

The river features though change every year and every flood causes changes to the features under the water – you note that the river is shallower on the pegs downstream of the Derwent – but i fished from the concrete apron on Wednesday of this week and found the opposite – the river depth at my rod end was approximately 5 feet deep and clear of weed – the previous year it was shallow and very weedy for a distance out. So the floods early this year have scoured out the silt bottom of the river – these pegs are now great stick float pegs with plenty of roach to be caught.

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