The Weather oh the weather

July 31, 2009

Well I had hoped that the week before I went on holiday that I would able to catch up, and get back on schedule with the electro fishing surveys.  Seemingly the weather had other ideas!  Monday we managed to get out and got 6 electro fishing surveys done, our first on the Hodder of 2009.  Tuesday we did a quantitative survey on Greystonely Brook, which turned out great results, and a surprise Herling!  This was matched by the EA electro fishing team who also found a Herling the same day, but further up Greystonely.  A talk with Andy Croft confirmed what I have been hearing, that our Herling run (Sea trout of 0.5lb upto about 1.5lb) this year is one of the best in recent times.  However they seem to be making life hard for us anglers as there numbers do not match the willingness to take a fly!

Wednesday we had had the lovely over night showers that had pushed the Hodder and the main river up, and most of the side becks to an surveyable level.  This was really irritating, but it did mean that a few salmon were caught by anglers and we received another application for one our catch and release badges! I took Thursday off with the thought that it would be to high to survey but just right for fishing, what a mistake, the river looked to be running 2 foot 10 and very coloured.  However Friday (Today) when I’m back in the office, the river is perfect and my visit to West Bradford Bridge earlier meant that I had to watch many other anglers actually getting to wet their line!  So both wednesday and today have been spent shifting paper work, and as I type, the website is having a small update, with new info on Invasive species, commercial fisheries, and photos & videos going up.

I can’t complain about being stuck in the office though, as I have managed to wrangle a weeks holiday in scotland where I plan to fish as near as I can to 24 – 7!!  This means no Blog next week, and just a short blog the following week, hopefully making you jealous of the wonderful Holiday I have planned!!

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