A small rise, a couple of fish & more rain to come..........

Yesterday's rain affected the lower catchment rather more than the upper.
The graph above shows rainfall & river height at Ballyduff for the last month.
This is the highest the river has been at Ballyduff since August 31.




The graph above show the Millstreet (80km upstream) gauge for the last week. The river peaked at 08.00 this morning - up 8cm.

The next graph above show the Ballyduff gauge for the last week.
The river peaked at 12.00 this morning - up 13cm.

This was the river below the Lodge a couple of days ago
when the gauge was on 0.05m.

 This was the river below the Lodge @ 16.00 today - gauge height 0.17m.

There were just 4 rods out today - 2 on the upper river & 2 on the lower.
The upper river had good clarity @ ~5 feet with just a touch of cloudy sedimentary particles & no weed coming down.
Two fish of 6 & 10lb. were taken on the top but one beat, where a good number of fish were showing & some moving to flies presented to them.  

Conditions were not so good on the lower river where the clarity was only about 2 1/2 feet & a lot of weed was coming down the river & hooking up on flies.      

 

The Five Day Met Eireann forecast is still showing heavy rain right across the catchment for tomorrow night so we should get a good rise in the river on Monday. Hopefully this will clear quickly and we will get some good fishing from mid-week to the close of the season on Sunday October 12.

There is no problem for availability for fishing & accommodation
for this last week of our season.