Four foot flood helps us smash Best Day of Season record............

A Well-needed Flood

A dirty 4 foot flood hit the river on Friday, August 2nd. peaking at 1.28m.
This was just what we needed to bring the huge numbers of fish waiting in the tidal reaches
up into the main river. This resulted in our only blank day in the 16 days to August 5th.

The Day Record is Smashed!
By Saturday evening, it had dropped to 0.51m but was still coloured.
There were 4 fish caught that day.
The river fined down to good order on Sunday, and we smashed our record
for the Best Day of 2013 with 20 fish to 11lb.caught for just 12 rod days.
The previous best day was eight fish. Two anglers each had four for the day, one of which had both his first & second ever fly-caught salmon. The other had fish of 11,10, 7 & 3lb.
Nine fell to fly & 11 to spinner. Fourteen were caught on the upper river & six on the lower beats.

Mat Burbridge with his First Ever Fly Caught Salmon which he released.


We now have 60 fish caught for just 70 rod days in the last 16 days.

There was very heavy rain in the middle catchment for a couple of hours on Sunday evening which gave another 1½ foot flood yesterday morning

 This is the picture of rainfall & Ballyduff gauge height for the last month.
It has been very unsettled for the last fortnight, but is now settling.

This was the picture of the river below the Lodge this morning after the two recent floods.
Ballyduff gauge height 0.43m. 
Clarity 1-1½ feet early this morning improving to ~2 feet by lunchtime.

Prospects
With a river fining down rapidly, a dry forecast for the week & large numbers of fish running,
we look set to have fabulous sport in the coming week.