A GIANT pike has been peeping through a window at one of the city's most popular beauty spots.

The curious fish was filmed by Canal and River Trust staff at the Diglis Fish Pass viewing window.

It wqs swimming up to the glass close enough to see its patterned scales.

According to the Canal and River Trust, pike are common in our waters, with all canals, reservoirs and rivers containing pike.

Two cameras are always stationed in the viewing room, which monitors every fish which passes through.

The viewing window is illuminated with a backlight so that the cameras can detect fish at all times of the day.

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What is a Fish Pass?

The purpose of a fish pass is to allow fish to move past manmade blockages in water.

In Diglis, the weir means that many fish looking to travel upstream struggle due to the two-metre separation.

The weir was installed in the 1840s to create a deeper, more reliable pool of water upstream for boats.

Stronger fish like salmon are occasionally able to get past the weir by jumping, but many species do not possess the required strength.

The pass consists of 11 small pools, each just 20 cm higher than the last, making it more manageable for the fish to swim through.

The fish detect the stream of water in the river and can travel upwards, with walls in each pool relieving some of the force created by the water. 

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