Well the rain and some snow duly arrived overnight and the main river plus all the tributaries are on the rise in what looks like a decent spate and still raining in some areas so it looks like another best part of a week with very little prospect of any fishing once again.   That's even if we get no further rain though temperatures are set to rise apparently.
It's a muddy mess to be fair with plenty of Ithon water in.


With farmers under pressure to get their act together on all sorts of environmental issues I note on yesterdays Countryfile programme a piece on the big decline of hedgehogs, especially in the countryside.  Research suggested that farming practices were at fault turning much of the countryside into a sterile'desert'.  However the Powys NRW representative dismissed this and put the decline down to badgers, eating all the hedgehog food and indeed the hedgehogs themselves.  I wonder how they ever managed to co exist in the past.  Self denial is always the fall back situation for NFU and no one with any power  even wants to tackle them on any of the issues.  Likewise the slurry and poultry issues in many areas with a beach at New Quay in Wales having to be closed by a slurry spill in a stream running through the beach.

See another incident below.

An investigation has been launched to find out why hundreds of fish have been found dead in one of the main tributary streams leading to the Conwy River.

The devastating scenes were discovered yesterday by members of the Llanrwst Anglers Club.

A spokesman for the organisation said that after spotting the first batch of dead fish, they then followed the stream and found hundreds along the water.

Representatives from Natural Resources Wales (NRW) have visited the site and are treating it as a suspected pollution incident.

Simon Lees secretary of Llanrwst Anglers Club said: “NRW will be taking water samples and doing invertebrate surveys to see the full extent of the damage.

“Nant Cae Person is an important spawning tributary for salmon, sea trout and has recently suffered due to loss of spawning habitat.

Left, some of the dead fish and right, murky looking water at Nant Cae Person stream near Llanrwst

“We could be looking at a complete population loss on the stream which would be devastating and take up to five or six years to recover.”

Mr Lees said over the past few years, the club had taken a pro-active approach to keeping the River Conwy and its tributaries healthy by carrying out regular spot checks on the watercourses that lead to the main Conwy river.

He added: “We are suspecting it could be slurry because when the incident was first reported it was noted that the stream was discoloured and smelt of slurry, it could have got in accidentally through drains.

REA