Highest River Height at Ballyduff since mid-April !

I am known (or perhaps rather infamous) for a scientific approach to analysing data.
Sometimes it is well worth the effort in order to better understand what is happening on the river.

The graphs below show the height & flow (in cubic metres) of the river at Ballyduff for the last year to date.
Due to the scale of the graphs, today's event can just be seen on the far right of each graph.
Today the Ballyduff gauge reached a height of 1.46 metres which is a highly significant event this year.
This is the highest it has been in the four months since mid-April, & is much higher than it has been all summer so far.

One would expect that these low water flows over the most significant part of the season should explain the poor runs of fish to date.
If this is the case, then we should be able to expect goods runs of fish to come in, and good sport for the coming weeks.

From

Ian Powell