With all this rain the rivers are all up by many feet and have burst their banks . Fields look like Loughs . Little streams that I did not even know were here I can see now as they look like the Amazon !!!
Question is does it wash the fish out of the rivers ??? Does it stop the fish leaving the Loughs ?? I guess also that there is no way any spawning can take place , does this mean a lost year ????

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good question danny, I reckon immense flooding would make for a pretty bad year. I dont believe that the fish get flushed out, theres always slack water somewhere for them but I think it will 'push' them downstream slightly. I know of floods that have trapped fish in puddles in fields, and allowed fish from lakes to escape into rivers.

Sometimes,But not often.remember there are still fish waiting to spawn.some reds will be washed out .but the late spawners get the clean gravel.

Jim

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The answer is no. Nature is a wonderful thing, it protects itself from instances like the current bad weather, how? Well all trout dont spawn at the same time, some are late spawners, some very late, so trout will spawn well into next year, salmon are the same, there are many runs of salmonin the rivers, both early and late,

Thanks for the answers . It still amazes me that anything can put up with what is being thrown at them .

So ok not all fish will be washed out . Some fish from the Loughs will enter the rivers later and spawn later . Lets hope the rivers to come back to a state that will allow them to spawn this year .........

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As for lochs,
If the fish cant run up water then they will drop down.
If a lot of water is passing through a loch, fish will leave the loch to spawn.
I have witnessed this happening but i would not worry about it too much it is mother nature after all.

I went to a fly fishing club meating where the guest speaker was from the EA talking about improving river habitat.

He explained how fish do get washed out in floods in certain kinds of river - in stretches of river that have been canalised over previous decades to improve drainage and prevent flooding there is nothing to create back eddies and slack water areas. (For example fenland drains)

He was working on altering these stretches to add refuge areas for fish in times of flood and curves in the water course. The numbers of fish in these stretches increased dramatically after the work was done, from hardly any fish to an abundance of fish.

Natural river courses suffer less from this type of problem since they have many natural curves and obstacles (rocks, trees etc) that create refuge areas for fish in high water.

Urban and suburban stetches of river are quite often altered over time - the sides are walled up for example , so they aren't quite as ideal as entirely natural river courses but some artificial structures such as bridges offer their own haven.

Joel

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Does these huge floods cause a lack of brown trout in seasons following but an increase in sea trout. I would have thought many will find themselves in tidal waters whether by intention or not. If they can get to a back eddy I'm sure they will but throw yourself in and see how difficult it is to get to one. Only joking, don't really throw yourself in.

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