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Subject: riveflies Sun Jul 29, 2012 2:35 pm

finally the roding has lowered so we could do our kick sampling at our 2 sites

johns stretch stanford rivers actual count 3 minute kick sample

6 mayfly
14. standard olive
5 caseless caddis
11 waterfleas

site 2 mitchells farm actual count 3 minute kick sample

29 mayfly
8 water fleas
1 caseless caddis
11 standard olives

bullheads , stoneloach and minnows caught.
lots of flies and creatures not on our list caught. no crayfish caught however under 40mm we return them as they are fish food when small

dave,do we have a report on our stretch for july?

bump.....????

Aragon and Silver sands still to do, may try tomorrow

Kingston. Category Estimated Number
Cased caddisfly. B. 60+
Caseless caddisfly. -
Mayfly. A. 0
Blue winged olive. A. 5
Flat bodied up wings. -
Olives (baetidae). A. 10
Stone flies. -
Gammarus. C. 70+

Hi

The first two photos are Andy at Mitchell's farm fly monitoring and the final two photos are my Stanford Rivers stretch on the Roding at the Irons swim.

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looks nice and peaceful john,away from it all Very Happy

Subject: riverfly Sat Aug 04, 2012 9:49 pm

yes will you can hardly hear the M25 from these stretches! more likely to see a deer, kingfisher before another angler this time of year.

Silversands Sunday 5th August

Cased caddis. 15. B
Mayfly. 18. B
Shrimps. About 70. B

Aragon today

Cased caddisfly - 11
Caseless caddisfly. - 1
Mayfly - 16
Blue winged olive - 1
Flat bodied up wings. -
Olives (baetidae) - 0
Stone flies. -
Gammarus 7

Sort of agrees with Colins sample, no Olives at all but Mayfly, low on shrimp Question

Mayfly

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The Jack and me will do Chertsey bridge this Satuday

Keith the next one is not for a few weeks, I will send an email mate.

ok Dave

25/8 river fly monitoring

I it happening this weekend ?

You had an email Col?

Yes it is, not heard from Paul but yes all on. I will email again.

the Jack and me are of to northampton for a weeks fishing with me dad today, castal asby lakes, me dads paying, so not around Saturday

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David Harvey wrote:: You had an email Col?

Yes it is, not heard from Paul but yes all on. I will email again.

Sorry, been a bit tied up.

I might not be around much this weekend, next weekend would suit me better (and looks like the same for Keith & Jack).

Thanks Paul

With my very limited weekends off will need to be this week, not a problem as will talk to Colin.

Cheers

Subject: Silversands Sat Aug 25, 2012 2:09 pm

We surveyed Silversands today

Cased cadis B
Grammarus. B
Mayfly. B

We didn't do Dumpsey meadow due to rain, will do tomorrow, weather permitting.

Cheers Col & Mike, good work chaps Smile

Myself, Willie, Will M, at Kingston first thing, Ed and Matthew came to see what was going on as well, thanks all

results:

Cased caddisfly - 70
Caseless caddisfly. - 0
Mayfly - 2
Blue winged olive - 0
Flat bodied up wings. - 0
Olives (baetidae) - 0
Stone flies. - 0
Gammarus 100+

Willie and me at Aragon

Cased caddisfly - 30
Caseless caddisfly. - 0
Mayfly - 4
Blue winged olive - 0
Flat bodied up wings. - 0
Olives (baetidae) - 0
Stone flies. - 0
Gammarus 40

No Baetidae or Blue Winged, must have been a big hatching and the Cased Caddis were biggest size yet.

Went to Dumsey Meadow today (sunday) full of fisherman all way down stretch so couldn't survey .

Thursday 30th August, finally got to Dumsey Meadow, no fishermen and no rain just VERY cold !

mayfly. B. 50-60
Cased caddis. B. 50
Shrimps. C. 200
Baetidae olives. B. 50

Silversands 22nd sept

Shrimp. B. 50
Mayfly. A. 9
Cased caddis. A. 7
Blue olive. A. 1

Dumsey meadow not done, full of fisherman all along that stretch.

Out this morning with Colin, Keith and Jack.

Managed to sample Chertsey and Silversands, will post the results up later.

I headed down to Hampton Court after but was not great due to the high turbid water. Didn't go to Kingston as the deepest spot we sample and not worth the risk.

Will try again next weekend.

Seems a long time since we were talking about the drought.

ere r some pics of todays epic advencher:

after braving the cold, cold wind from the north, on our hands and nees. trying to get to the river bank, (the wind waz pushing us back) we managed to get into position to do our monthly job,

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Paul and me done some kicking at sayes court, the river Bourne, Addlestone, 1100hrs,

the results are quite good

Shrimp. b

Mayfly. b

Cased caddis. b

caddis a

a = 1 -10 b = 11 - 100

the water was a bit high, mideum to fast, 18" deep, gravel, no weeds

we had 2 big mayfly

the shrimp were big, would have lokked nice on a size 18 semee barbed hook with a 6Ib chub on the end Wink

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Well done chaps.

Taking ownership of your river is brilliant, if you can find another spot as well even better, there may even be a CSO that's worth keeping an eye on.

I will keep a record along with the Thames sites Smile