Hi I'm a new poster on here but not new to carping or traditional angling..
I grew up in Boscastle, fishing the Valency for small brownies up as far Biscombes farm where there was a lovely area where you could even run a small float down the river.and on one side of my family 16 generations are buried near to the head waters of the Valency river.
The Valency has always flooded ,in 1958 it was really bad as a local man was killed,in 2004 no one was killed...you can see the height of where the water level hit in my brothers cottage ,near the harbour ..he's put a plague in the level ..my brother was also in the cliff rescue based in the village,but now at Camelford Station.. The National Trust, has made a natural phenomenon much worse by raising Cobweb carpark and straightening all the river from Emma Giffords pool to the new bridge ..My family live in the old part ,the proper part of the village, and the Jordan and Paradise streams destroyed our cottage, it ran under and out through the front door ..it ruined my mother's mental state ..
As far as Otters go ,there is not one single water in the county that's not been predated ..places I've loved and grown up on..Beavers well,they obviously don't eat fish,however the legislation involved to remove them is immense ,I have seen at first hand damage caused by Beavers that have been let go on purpose ,potentially Beaver release could be as bad as the otter releases in the future..
I think it was well over 130 different waters that have been collated in the county...
