My local river in flood.

sam vimes · Mar 16, 2019

I'm often amused to see what people think a river in flood, or a fast pacy river looks like. More often than not, lowland rivers, even in flood, don't live up to my idea of either. The following pics might give others some insight (there's about two metres of extra water).

rich66 · Mar 16, 2019

Waters an amazing and powerful thing. The Soar, while full near me looks positively meandering compared to that. Nice pictures I like old stone work bridges.

tigger · Mar 16, 2019

I take it your not going trotting a worm then Chris

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sam vimes · Mar 16, 2019

tigger said:
I take it your not going trotting a worm then Chris .

No, but the trout season doesn't open until the 25th anyway.

tigger · Mar 16, 2019

sam vimes said:
No, but the trout season doesn't open until the 25th anyway.

Alll these different closed seasons.....

mg:

Just looked at my usual spot and the river is about 16ft up !

seth49 · Mar 16, 2019

Ribble at Ribchester
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108831 · Mar 16, 2019

Just a smidgen then Ian???

mikench · Mar 16, 2019

I just hope the forecast for next week is accurate with benign dry weather allowing soaked land to dry out a little and rivers in spate to subside.

The ribble looks spectacular Keith in your pic.

peter crabtree · Mar 16, 2019

Reminds me of the Bristol Avon FM fish-in back in 2009...

Have you any pics of the river in normal conditions which we can compare SV..

sam vimes · Mar 16, 2019

sam vimes said:
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Here are a selection of similar downstream views taken within 50 yards or so of the one above.

Richmond Falls on the River Swale. Richmond is a market town and the Stock Photo: 89164478 - Alamy

Richmond Falls on the River Swale. Richmond is a market town and the...
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Richmond falls on the River Swale (C) Steve Fareham :: Geograph Britain and Ireland

Richmond Falls on the River Swale. Richmond is a market town and the... News Photo | Getty Images

tigger · Mar 16, 2019

whitty said:
Just a smidgen then Ian???

Just a smidge lol.

Much worse further downstream!

flightliner · Mar 16, 2019

seth49 said:
Ribble at Ribchester
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Fished their-- well, Ribchester area back in '71 Keith, deepest bit of river I think I've ever fished ?

tigger · Mar 16, 2019

flightliner said:
Fished their-- well, Ribchester area back in '71 Keith, deepest bit of river I think I've ever fished ?

It's deep in those pic's but not in normal conditions Mick.

seth49 · Mar 17, 2019

Finished up with a total rainfall here of two and a half inches in my gauge yesterday, the ribble nr here reached four metres in height, not a record but fairly high.

Up at locks weir at settle it reached the highest level recorded, might even have passed it a bit.
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Hugh Bailey · Mar 17, 2019

sam vimes said:
I'm often amused to see what people think a river in flood, or a fast pacy river looks like. More often than not, lowland rivers, even in flood, don't live up to my idea of either. The following pics might give others some insight (there's about two metres of extra water).View attachment 6490
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Is that the car park at the bottom of the hill? Looks like it but the falls seem to have disappeared

Edit. Seen the later photos - thought it was there.

sam vimes · Mar 17, 2019

Hugh Bailey said:
Is that the car park at the bottom of the hill? Looks like it but the falls seem to have disappeared

Edit. Seen the later photos - thought it was there.

Yes, just behind the low wall that's on the river side of the car park. I've seen the river a fair bit higher, I went to the school between the falls and Station bridge (downstream). I've seen the falls become a barely discernible drop and the water ver the school wall that borders the Batts (grassed area downstream of the falls).

flightliner · Mar 17, 2019

tigger said:
It's deep in those pic's but not in normal conditions Mick.

Ian, I was living in Bolton that year and a local suggested fishing it one Wednesday afternoon.
We shot up in my car and he said we were near Ribchester.
A big bend comes to mind and I was ledgering maggots in a swim
Where the arlesey bomb seemed to take ages before it hit bottom.
We may have been close or far from Ribchester but it was forty eight years ago .
Are there any areas near the town that are deeper than most others???
Ps, I forgot to mention that I was traumatised at the time, being the only Yorky for miles around My day was one of constantly being reminded by all the guys on the job of my county of origin so I may have been a little confused

mg:

tigger · Mar 17, 2019

flightliner said:
Neil, I was living in Bolton that year and a local suggested fishing it one Wednesday afternoon.
We shot up in my car and he said we were near Ribchester.
A big bend comes to mind and I was ledgering maggots in a swim
Where the arlesey bomb seemed to take ages before it hit bottom.
We may have been close or far from Ribchester but it was forty eight years ago .
Are there any areas near the town that are deeper than most others???

Neil here

, maybe you fished upstream of Ribby on dinkley pools. Those are seriously deep!

The bad one · Mar 18, 2019

Just to put some perception on the Ribble from Saturday at 4 00 pm, it was 4.83 m up. Today Sunday it had dropped to 1.8 m at 3 00 pm. By 4.00 pm today it was most likely down to 1.4 m at the rate of dropping taking place. Eminently fishable had the season been open.
Just shows how rapidly a Northern spate can rise and fall. In 7 1/2 hours Saturday it rose more or less straight up between 5 am to 12 30 pm from 1.16 to 4.47.

seth49 · Mar 18, 2019

You can blame all the land drainage for that, when I was younger the older salmon fishermen, all said that the river would be high for a week, after a good spell of rain.

Now it starts to drop almost as soon as it stops raining, it very soon runs off nowadays, when I salmon fished there would be a certain height when it fished well, if you wasn’t fishing then you more or less missed the best of the fishing, it was only a matter of hours when it was right, one good pool on the hodder there was a stone in the run, if it was just covered with water it was perfect, drop three inches from that and you’d missed the best of the fishing, there is talk of stopping some of the drains, to slow this down.

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