I'd like to get photos but sod going out in that ;D
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Get your waders on and get out there :-)
I'm in Belfast at the minute and it looks like most of it missed us. Amazing how places that are really quite close can have such different conditions.
Just in after a day in the trees at Garynahine working the dogs. Not a dry stitch on me by finishing time. Big numbers of woodcock made it over the North Sea this year.
We have had easterly gales for days, probably helped the woodcock on their way
River still in the fields and on the roads but seems it have peaked at 25mm below the record set on 23/12/2012. It really is quite incredible to see such a small, placid trout stream turn into a raging monster. I guess a lot of trout redds will have been destroyed, the salmon should be OK as they spawn much later.
A huge water like that will more than likely alter the river as well Fred.
For sure Alan. The soil here is very sandy and floods readily cut through the banks.
It's still raining albeit lighter now. I heard on the radio that a woman is missing after being swept away in The Don.
The peak levels are one thing but the real damage is in the overall energy that you see in the area under the curve.
This is it now.
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The river's been there a long time Fred, my guess is that it won't go away any time soon. I always remember going to Dulsie on the Findhorn and noting that the river came up to the bridge during the Muckle Spate. I guess maybe it created a few new pools, and maybe a few old ones vanished, but that just turns the fishing into more of an adventure.
The biggest damage these massive spates do seems to be washing out the invertebrates. I'd expect fly hatches will be sparse next season as happened in 2013 after the massive December 2012 spate.
Does this mean that hundreds of Tayside beaver dams have failed to prevent major spate flows ... !? The effect of flood prevention with beavers only happens up to the point of when you get a proper flood, before that they only "dampen down" small spates. Wee joke there.
I think most of the Tayside beaver dams will now be somewhere around the area of the Bellrock Lighthouse. ;D