VERY VERY sad news - The Mere

Hiya chaps

Was just having a browse around various carping sites, and it looks as if everything in the Mere, including other species, has died on Sunday/Monday of this week, due to an algae bloom/oxygen crash. Very very sad news for the carp fishing fraternity, given that particular lake includes the Black Mirror, possibly THE best looking, and sought after carp in the country.

Mike Wilmott's Essential Baits site statement here http://www.essentialproducts.co.uk/#/the-mere/4543346301

I'm not really one for getting upset about specific fish. Of course, it's very sad etc, but this fish is different. I've read Terry Hearn, Dave Lane, Steve Pagulatos and Jason Hayward's accounts of their guesting at the Mere, and it really does fire the imagination and get the hair on the back of your neck standing to attention.

RIP

http://www.that-aint-no-bream.co.uk/photo.php?pNo=158

Its been a bad year for loosing big fish. So far there been Two Tone, The BM, Heather, Ringo from Cleverly Mere to my knowledge

It's sad to say but the old super stars of the carp world are slowly going one by one to the big lake in the sky but lakes like the res are bringing on the new blood that will have their own stories told one day

just read the story that Mike has wrote very very sad

Exactly the same thing happened at Adams pool the catfish water i was running for the CCG a few years ago, even the crayfish were crawling out of the water to try and get oxygen. Its not a very pleasent experience burning piles of dead fish, so i know how the guys down there are feeling. Unfortunately its a freak occurance of nature and there is nothing that can be done to prevent it !!!!

Keith how weird is that after me you mark and martin were talking about the mere Saturday evening ,strange to think while we were talking about it , it was going through those sad events !!

Terrible news! Isnt that the water where people used to have to fish on the sly because fishing was banned or something like that?

No mike no body every wet a line in the mere