Neil Maidment
Moderator
Five months, July to December, separate these comparison images of the Dorset Stour (Throop) taken this season.
This is normal, at least as normal as it gets after many decades of flood management, river straightening and abstraction, for many parts of the Stour.
It's Mother Nature in action with floods and frosts making light work of natural river maintenance. The "now" images are still quite deceptive as the river bed is littered with stalks and the chub love them! Fortunately those stalks are rotting and usually come free when the inevitable happens with a hooked chub :wh
This is normal, at least as normal as it gets after many decades of flood management, river straightening and abstraction, for many parts of the Stour.
It's Mother Nature in action with floods and frosts making light work of natural river maintenance. The "now" images are still quite deceptive as the river bed is littered with stalks and the chub love them! Fortunately those stalks are rotting and usually come free when the inevitable happens with a hooked chub :wh