Saturday 1 February 2014

Opening Day on the Blackwater River / Lake 2014

Ok its official i need to get myself evaluated, anybody that goes out with the intention of going fishing on a day like today with serious storm force 10 warnings on a river that one cannot find due to the fact that it is so badly flooded one cannot see or find the banks, needs to be locked up for their own safety and the safety of others. To my credit after talking to Ian at the Blackwater Lodge Fishery who did try to talk some sense into me by telling me to go home and leave the river to the surfers ( due to the size of some of the waves coming down the lake / river ) i said that i would have one look at Ballyhooly Bridge on the way home and maybe have a cast .... So here are some of the photo's of the river from Ballyduff bribge up to Ballyhooly bridge, we had to be very careful while stopping to take photo's due to the conditions and narrow road so its only a small sample of the floods trust me it was a lot worse the photo's don't do the conditions justice. In some areas it looked like Lough Corrib on a very rough stormy day with big waves.

                                          view from the Blackwater Lodge Fishery
                                        
                                          looking downstream from Ballyduff Bridge
                                            
                                           upstream view from Ballyduff Bridge


The next few photo's were taken just above Ballyduff village showing the fields because you can't see the river or banks but they are there.



                                          The Funshion river looking upstream 1 of 2

                                         The Funshion River looking downstream 1of 2
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                                           Ballyhooly Bridge looking downstream 1 of 3
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                                          Ballyhooley Bridge looking upstream 1 of 2
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                                         Fermoy Bridge looking downstream 1 of 3
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                                          Fermoy Bridge looking upstream 1 of 3
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The water was just starting to drop off as we were leaving and it had reached almost 3 meters on the guage so the photo's give you an idea what this level of water can do to the river. Just incase anybody was going to make a phone call or send an email to some medical / psychiatric services with my interests at heart there is no need, i didn't take the fishing rods out and i did get home safe and reasonably sound. I might be slightly mad at times and that has to do with having the proper fishing gear for the conditions but i'm not stupid and know my limits and today was the limit, too dangerious for fishing.

2 comments:

  1. Hi Paul, i was looking at the video that you uploaded on youtube, where you were catching brown trout on klinkhammers in March. I was wondering where you were fishing? as it seems like a stillwater. Rgds Kieran.

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    1. Hi Kieran,
      that was a private fishery in Waterford. Paul.

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