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Rain…

Alan Palmer

Alan Palmer

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About time, and plenty coming down tomorrow. The Ouse valley had a flood warning for weekend….and still very mild out, surely gonna be some big girls coming out - anyone braving the weather and venturing out?
 
A mate of mine was on the upper B Avon today and at 4pm they started running off the river to make more room for the forecast rain overnight and tomorrow. It is already chucking it down (9pm).
 
Out yesterday, 14° and little wind, so felt really comfortable sitting by the river. Out this morning walking the dog, 7° strong north easterly and raining. Like being on a different planet !
 
Yeah, work all week looking at brilliant conditions, come Friday it's as it is and flooding in. Tomorrow is looking like a washout... but will see..
 
I’m going tomorrow, fishing for anything that’s hungry, but as it’s the upper Lea I’m not sure it counts as it never seems to flood. The Ouse and ouzel are rising insanely quickly though.
 
Already in the fields in the Ouse valley…I was expecting it to come up some but not this much/this quick so I got that wrong 🤷‍♂️
 
Here in North Yorkshire it has been holing it down , all the spate rivers are rising fast but to be fair that's pretty normal for this time of year . It will be a brave angler who tries his luck for Barbel in the next day or two , cold water and tons of leaves , branches , trees , dead sheep, floating downstream will make it a little challenging
 
Wye is coming well up. But around Monmouth horrific due the river Monnow trying to get into the Wye

Happens when smaller rivers can't force their way into the larger ones.

Use to be great fishing on the bank high Loddon held back due the Thames force.
 
I gather Monmouth was hit by the same type of flood last year, almost in the same week a year apart.

So we have have gone from a year with the wettest 365 days on record, to one of the driest springs and summers on record them straight back to flooding. It is looking like all the predictions about climate change in the UK are largely correct thus far, so it is highly concerning that the climatologists are saying that things will become even more extreme in the future.
 
Yep, Barton on W.Avon been low and clear and now it's unfishable.

I was hoping to get out in the morning too since I had a day off.

Anything like last year and that's it now till June 16th for me.
 
Its finding a spot to fish, I would guess a 1.5lb rod and a 2oz lead are not gonna cut it.

Then there's trying to get the car back out of Barton car park without it getting stuck in the mud 🤣
 
🤣 I think I've bought enough rods for a life time, and to me even a current 1.75 rods feels like I could go Shark fishing with one, I much prefer lighter, more finesse feeling rods.

I'm still heading out this morning, but I don't feel confident by using just a single piece of meat but that's all I have ready.
 
Mark Evans 2 said:
🤣 I think I've bought enough rods for a life time, and to me even a current 1.75 rods feels like I could go Shark fishing with one, I much prefer lighter, more finesse feeling rods.

I'm still heading out this morning, but I don't feel confident by using just a single piece of meat but that's all I have ready.
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I understand .. however finesse and floodwater don't go together .. it's more agricultural🤣🤣

Good luck old chap ... hope you catch
 
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