Rain livens the river up a bit.................................................

At Ballyduff, 3mm rain fell on the 23rd. & 20mm on the 24th.
The Ballyduff gauge rose 15cm to 0.35m, peaking @ 06.45 on the 25th.
as can be seen more clearly from the graph below.

Rain fell in the upper catchment, where the level also rose ~15cm.
It also peaked once again again this morning at mid-day at Killavullen
with a total rise of 20cm at that time.

After a week without fish (though with very few rods out) we have had 8 grilse
caught in 5 days for just 23 rod days which is a reasonable result.
Five were caught by Peter Berger from Germany in 3 days.
 

Bizarrely, a club beat on the upper river which is situated amongst our upper beats
recorded well over 20 caught between Wednesday evening & Thursday mid-day,
whilst other beats in the area are not even seeing fish!

The forecast predicts very broken weather for the next 5 days
with quite a lot more rain due especially from Monday to Wednesday.