Finally it has stopped raining, the River Severn has fallen to a fishable level, the river level came down dramatically on Friday evening, I think there must have been quite a bit of dam compensation water in the river for it to drop so quickly.

So I managed a few hours on Saturday and an hour on Sunday morning, Saturday produced 10 - 12 fish mainly grayling and one trout, with the biggest fish around the 2 lb mark, on Sunday I tried a run I have fished many times, how it had changed after the floods, so much gravel has been washed down the river, instead of being to deep to fish in the winter it is now waist deep along nearly it’s whole length, This run produced one real good fish of 45 cms and a lot of small grayling and trout up to around ¾ lb, the grayling was one of the hardest fighting fish I have caught in a long time, he put up a very good account of his self.

I walked the river on Monday and it had fallen even further, and a strange milky tinge coloured the water, but nice to see the river back to a more fishable level after all the floods.