Pumpkinseed?

[Greenheart]

Anyone know where I can catch a Pumpkinseed in the south of England for the species hunt? Not heard of any being caught around the West Wilts area. No wise cracks about buying a pumpkin in my local fruit & veg shop please!!!

[baitmaster]

Pumpkinseed located in
southern England in the counties of West Sussex, East Sussex,
Surrey and Somerset (Fig. 1). These sites were selected because
they were known to contain pumpkinseeds, and all but one are
located in the catchments of the Sussex Ouse and Thames
rivers. Eighteen of the sites were either ponds or small lakes
and the nineteenth was a stream.
Although pumpkinseeds are present in a number of streams in
the Ouse catchment (only a 750m section
of the upper reaches of Batts Bridge Stream (Sussex Ouse
catchment), situated between two on-stream ponds, yielded a
sufficient number of pumpkinseeds to permit growth and lifehistory
analysis.

Site NGR
1. Boringwheel Trout Lake TQ455265
2. Batts Bridge Stream TQ456258
3. Powdermill Upper Pond TQ461232
4. Powdermill Side Pond TQ461231
5. Powdermill Lower Pond , TQ461229
6. Tanyards Lake 1 TQ410267
7. Tanyards Lake 2 TQ411266
8. Tanyards Lake 3 TQ412264
9. Tanyards Lake 4 TQ412263
10. Tanyards Lake 5 TQ411264
11. Tanyards Lake 6 TQ413262
12. Tanyards Lake 7 TQ414263
13. Milton Mount Pond TQ293383
14. Cottesmore School Pond TQ247335
15. Cottesmore Middle Pond TQ247337
16. Cottesmore Lower Pond TQ246338
17. Island Pond TQ245340
18. Douster Pond TQ244343
19. Dunwear Pond ST313360

i hope this is of help

tightlines
kevin

[baitmaster]

there are some in sway lakes the new forest hampshire

also the british record pumkinseed was caught from tanyards fishery 2003 14 oz 2 dr


tightlines
kevin

[pingu]

wow not only info but grid refs as well

greatinfo kev