with all this rain we are after having and its not over yet, will the floods wash away or damage the redds.
november/december been the main time for seatrout does it look bad for this years spawning?
macca76

Good question... We need Bugsy to answer...

this rain is just non stop here in Glasgow and with your question it brings many worries for my local if its the case ,,,i await bugsy's answer ,as he seems to be the man to answer your question.

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from what ive heard is most trout have now spawned in waterville
and it looks like most redds were destroyed this is bound to be the same all over ireland,wales,england and scotland

Nature usually finds a way, such as staggered spawning. Natural floods aren't the greatest peril that our sea trout are having to deal with. Floods they have dealt with for millennia.

Flooding on this scale is bound to have shifted gravel/redds of the fish that have already spawned.

It's usually lower water and the first frosts that set the spawning off.

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not actually all fact, water temperature, related to photo period ie daylight hours, is main trigger, trout and seatrout tend to be first, salmon second, but that depends on geographical distribution, however lower water will help, as fish will spawn in areas that are always underwater, therefore the lower the better at spawning time. in terms of flooding damaging the redds therefore the eggs, only a big problem if layers of silt are deposited on top of eggs, if eggs are washed out and settle on other gravel beds will hatch just the same.
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bert

If I remember right, the big Eden flood that hit Carlisle a few years ago didn't seem to do much damage to the juvenile salmon numbers the following summer, but the juvenile trout numbers were low - implication being that the shallower trout redds are more vulnerable than the deeper salmon redds.

No expert but I think fish have had to cope with this for hundreds of years and they are still here. Probably some damage but not a wipe out.

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I'm led to believe that sea trout wait for a couple of hard frosts before doing what nature intended. We've only had one here in Wales, about 3 weeks ago so hopefully it's all to come

Ian