Aaaah, the annual downstream mass migration. It is events like that that are almost unmissable for a hopeless river angler like myself.
After about a dozen biteless sessions on my local river, in the past two trips, I have been overjoyed at the sheer volume of activity in the river.. lots of twitches, and the occasional rod-wrencher - it's very exciting stuff!
There river is alive with "bits", last trip I was graced with a whole shoal of smallish sanitary items that kept me on my toes. I've managed to 'bank' several specimen logs and branches, which all put up a good fight in the flow. Also narrowly lost a decent looking car tyre (still on the wheel) at the net.
Although surely the best specatacle was watching in awe as a whole, seemingly intact portacabin floated downstream mid-channel... I could only dream that such a galant adversary would ever grace my net!