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Post by salmonscotty16lb on Dec 6, 2006 23:01:06 GMT
hi all just been thinking about about how this rain is effecting salmon spawning?
with some rivers 10ft+ my thought were with redds being washed out silted over ect? fair play most spawning fish are well up these rivers or in burns and tribs where the effect is less but i have watched spanning fish at kinkell bridge on earn this time of year and what affect will 8ft flood have there?
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Post by Sloggi on Dec 7, 2006 16:51:19 GMT
Interesting question.
I saw fish spawning in the Dee in late September - will the fertilized eggs be washed away too?
I would guess the fish have a way of protecting eggs but 10' is pretty extreme.
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Post by wilbert on Dec 15, 2006 8:45:28 GMT
I was talking to one of the EA bailiffs the other day and he said that most of the salmon round have not spawned yet due to the very mild temperature for this time of year, lets hope this is the case all over the UK. I am worried about fish spawning in high water which could leave the redds high and dry when the water levels get back to normal. Mother nature has strange ways of maintaining a balance. If half the redds are lost in a spawning beck does that mean that the ones that survive will have twice the survival rate because they will have extra food and more space??
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Post by kercock on Dec 15, 2006 15:44:39 GMT
There were certainly fish spawning on Lower Kercock above the Ist Croy late Nov.and eary Dec also in the cottage stream,will that lot survive? Difficult to say because the river flow can be and is very different in flood conditions,all we can do really is wait and see. Aweek past Monday it was very close to flood conditions and yesterday it most certainly was flood conditions. This morning the river had dropped back about three feet at Kercock and the area I had cleared of debris over the previous 10 days had been covered by about twice as much rubbish, leaving one hellova mess on the road and all of the right bank from the upper to the lower hut. Ah well , here we go again ,but I'd rather be cleaning it off the river bank than the people who are having to sweep it out of their houses,poor sods!
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Post by salmonscotty16lb on Jan 12, 2007 0:18:04 GMT
speaking to sandy from kinkell bridge he told me that the salmon hadn't spawned on the reds above the bridge yet due to high water? now not knowing the hight there after all this rain (frightened to check after seeing my local river) there cant be long left until they start absorbing the eggs and become baggots? on a plus side there was less salmon than normal for this time of year so some hope must be with the salmon running tribs and burns? remember there is lots of water after the bridge  |
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Post by altmor on Jan 12, 2007 18:44:26 GMT
Drove over the Earn on the A9 today on way to Montrose. The whole basin of fields lying to the south of the road was awash to the extent you couldn't make out where the river was.
Was going to drop in to see if Sandy was there, but ran out of time.
Did however have a glance at the South Esk at Bridge of Dunn - big but nowhere near the levels on the west. Rivers everywhere seem to be flooding up due to saturation.
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Post by jaypee on Jan 14, 2007 22:52:19 GMT
It might interest Kercock that the flood on the 15th was the third highest in over 60 years record at Ballathie.
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Post by kercock on Jan 14, 2007 23:02:01 GMT
It does'nt surprise me,thanks for that.I went down this morning to do some final touches,noticed a job I had'nt done on one of the boats,then the rain came on and on and on. The water was runnin oot o ma erchie by the time the job was done,day off too.The joys of angling,.
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