The state of the rivers

[Anderoo]

I don't know about you but around Oxford it's TERRIBLE! I was hoping to get out for a few hours over the weekend but it looks even worse than last weekend, which is saying something. The Thames and its tributaries are in a right state, full to bursting with muddy, turbulent, freezing cold water.

 

What's it like where you are?

[Jigotai]

I don't know about you but around Oxford it's TERRIBLE! I was hoping to get out for a few hours over the weekend but it looks even worse than last weekend, which is saying something. The Thames and its tributaries are in a right state, full to bursting with muddy, turbulent, freezing cold water.

 

What's it like where you are?

 

It's a bit grim here at the moment too.

[Nicepix]

It's a bit grim here at the moment too.

 

Checked the EA Riverline this morning and was all set to go for a spot of grayling fishing on the Wharfe. By the time I had walked the dog and made a flask it was pouring down. That was two hours since and it is still pouring down.

[Houseplant]

Water was slow paced and very clear on my local stretch. Perfect for a bit of spinning, but couldn't get the afternoon off work . Now it's 'orrible.

[mdgfishing]

I fished the Trent a couple of nights ago it was clear , cold and slower than this time of the year would normaly be.

 

I caught 1 chub aroud 4lb and No Barbel which was my aim, for 9 hours fishing that was my only bite.

 

MDG

[Waveney One]

Went for a bit of chubbing yesterday afternoon and ended up leaving the rods in the car and just going for a walk. River way up and full of rubbish. One angler hanging out a washing line with no bites since dawn.

[goosequill]

It is biblical in places.....the Cherwell below Banbury is horrendous and, well, we know how the Oxfordshire Thames is but may venture out for a couple of hours to night in a weirpool slack....

[Severn Wolf]

The Severn was 6ft up yesterday and bloody cold. Barbel responded accordingly and switched off.

 

Just had a look at the webcam and it seems to have risen even more! It`d be perfect if the water temperature was a couple of degrees higher but as for the weekend........no ta.

[Houseplant]

I've learnt the hard way not too bother when it's like this. No doubt some will disagree, but I just don't think it's worth the effort. Having said that, there's a mini-marina on my local stretch that I bet is stuffed full of pike right now. If things sort themselves out a little between now and Sunday I might just be tempted to toss a sardine in.

[david t]

my trip to the wye, which was supposed to happen 2 weeks ago has been put on hold, due to 2 weeks of welsh rain!!!

 

im glad its not just here!!!

severn wolf, the severn starts about 12 miles from me, and its bloooming wet around there, i was in the area yesterday night, walking, and all the streams are like flowing at a hell of a rate, there was a waterfall on one of the streams that was chucking water out at a near horizonal level, like a hose pipe. so for the moment expect no relief in the river levels unfortunately!!!