Flood fining off. Clarity 3 feet downriver last night………

Conditions.

The Met Eireann 5 Day forecast is dry for the week. The 8 Day Magic Seaweed forecast has 2 depressions heading in from the Atlantic bringing rain next Sunday & Tuesday.
 
The upper river at Millstreet is dropping steadily.

Killavullen has dropped to 1.23m this morning at 06.00. Clarity was poor yesterday evening.


At Ballyduff, the river is also steadily dropping & is at 0.37m at 06.00. Clarity yesterday evening was about 3 feet.

Water temperature at Ballyduff: 12.6ºC / 54.7ºF.

Catches.

Two very fresh grilse caught yesterday for just 4 rod days.
72 caught so far for July. 192 for the season to date.

Prospects.

Should be very good as the latest flood fines off. Grilse & some larger double-figure fish running the lower river.

Availability.

No problem for rods & accommodation at the moment.

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Yesterday's 1½ foot dirty flood is just starting to fine off on the lower river………

Conditions.

Beautiful sunny day today. The forecast is dry for the week.
 

The upper river at Millstreet is dropping steadily.


Killavullen has dropped to 1.32m this morning at 09.00. Clarity is a dirty 1½ feet.


At Ballyduff, the river peaked at midnight last night at 0.60m. By 10.00 it has fallen back to 0.49m. Clarity is a very peaty 1½ feet.

Water temperature at Ballyduff: 12.6ºC / 54.7ºF.

Catches.

Just one very fresh grilse released on our very top beat yesterday morning before the dirty flood hit.

69 caught so far for July. 189 for the season so far.

Prospects.

Should be very good once this latest flood starts to fine off

Availability.

No problem for rods & accommodation at the moment.

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A 1½ foot flood is just starting to fine off

Conditions.

Dry today.
 

The upper river at Millstreet rose 50cm peaking at 08.00 Sunday 19^th. Dropping steadily all day. Clarity about 1 foot during the day.


Killavullen rose 36cm & peaked at 17.00 at 1.54m. Down to 1.43m at 23.30.


The lower river at Ballyduff has risen 27cm by 23.30 & is close to peaking at 0.59m. Clarity was about 1½ feet this evening

Water temperature at Ballyduff: 12.3ºC / 54.1ºF.

Catches.

Just one very fresh grilse released on our very top beat this morning before the dirty flood hit.
69 caught so far for July. 189 for the season so far.

Prospects.

Should be very good once this latest flood starts to fine off

Availability.

No problem for rods & accommodation at the moment.

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Coloured water hits our top beat!

For the last hour or so, debris has been coming down the river to as far a Killavullen. Just had a report that the clarity has now gone on our very top beat Ballygarrett - just below Mallow.

There was one very fresh 4lb. grilse released there on spinner just before the colour hit.

At Killavullen the river is now up 21cm to 1.40m & is still rising.
At Ballyduff, it rose 7cm to 0.39m & peaked at 11.00 & is now back down 1cm.

Lower river going out of order..............

Millstreet has peaked & is falling again.
Killavullen is up 7cm & still rising slowly. 1.25m at 11.00.
Clarity at Mallow & Killavullen is still 2½-3 feet at 11.00.
Ballyduff is up 7cm to 0.39m at 11.00. Clarity is now poor at Kilmurry due to dirty spate from Araglen. Lower river going out of order.

One fish lost on worms this morning.

Yesterday, there was just one grilse caught on the upper river. It was a first ever on the fly for Seamus Walsh on a single hand rod.

Upper river peaks up 50cm........

The upper river at Millstreet has peaked at 08.00 - up 50cm.

In the lower catchment, the upper Funshion is up 25cm & still rising.
The Araglen close to it's confluence with the Blackwater is also rising
& getting coloured & will affect the main river as the day goes on.
At Ballyduff, the river is just starting to rise & is up 3cm overnight.

The weather forecast for the week is dry.

A flood is on the way!

A band of heavy rain came through last night.
The radar picture shows the tail end passing easterly & just about to leave the catchment at 06.30 today.
I had 9mm rain during the night here at the Lodge.
The river at Millstreet (see graph) is already up 50cm & rising rapidly.