Todays trip was a disaster

[wilbert]

Well I decided that it was time to venture out for the first time this year as I was desperate to wet a line and have a look at some new water on the Tyne that my club has access to. So yesterday I rang up to get the river height and the flow rate from kielder, 13" and falling and 10.5 m3 per second, just about perfect. So this morning I check the answer message for the water height which has not been updated since yesterday and then I set off with a friend at silly O clock and drive 140 miles to the Tyne. Oh Boll*cks the river has come up loads during the night and I am looking at a raging torrent of chocolate. So try to make the best of a bad situation and look at all the water in the area as a reference for next time. So now I am back home and have still not wet a line and the most frustrating thing is that I had planned to go yesterday but had to re arrange at the last minute, bugger.

[Fruin]

Wilbert,

I know that feeling.
I took a day off work last year as I thought that the rivers in our system would have been perfect. It rained, a lot, overnight. I spent the next day driving around all the way up to the headwaters of two of our spate rivers and still never found water worth fishing.

It was blowing a gale and I even had to stop at one point to assist in clearing a tree off the road

[johnmac]

hard luck! Its sod's law i suppose! there's always next time!

[Tyne Angler]

wilbert

Which part of the Tyne were/are you going to be fishing ?

[wilbert]

I was going to be fishing the TAS water at Wylam and Bywell. Will go back again but I was not too impressed with the water at first sight, it may look a little better at a normal height. Have not seen the water on the North Tyne yet but doubt this will be worth a go until May?? My club has only gained access to this water this year so I don't know what any of the other water on other rivers is like but will do my beast to find out over the year.