I am sorry to creak the door again over last summer's floods, but when was the last time the Thames and its tributaries and relief channels were dredged?
I have been an angler for nearly 40 years and there isn't a part of the Thames that I haven't drowned a maggot.
I remember silt barges being towed down the river to empty their silty cargo.
I haven't seen that for years.
Recently, I came across a picture of me holding a perfect 8Ib tench in 1992 and in the background, you can clearly see a digger emptying a silt barge from the nearby Thames into a pit.
Apparently, that same year, a man sank up to his waist in the deposited silt while walking round the lake and I am led to believe that was when the dredging stopped.
The Environment Agency creams in a lot of cash over the year from rod licences - and that is not its only income.
So where's all the money going?
Europe, I suppose.
REID TUTTY Mortimer Drive Old Marston Oxford
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