Spey casting is just fancy big boy roll casting. #flyfishing #speycasting #spey

Again looking at the USGS flow rate data for the Cheoah River at Bearpen Gap (https://waterdata.usgs.gov/monitoring-location/0351706800/#parameterCode=00060&period=P365D&showMedian=false), it looks like the power company "turned off" the ambient discharge rate from Santeetlah Dam at the end of May last year and the summer river levels are quite low.

There are only two weekends on the schedule between now and the end of May that are not planned for high release "flood events". I'm sure that I can fish with my tenkara or do overhead fly fishing at the super low summer levels, but I am interested in finding new rivers to spey cast and swing wet flies.

It looks like I will need to get back up there this coming weekend and the first weekend in May to explore the swinging opportunities.

#cheoahriver #fishing #flyfishing #hiking #nature #outdoors #tenkara #skagit #spey

Cheoah River NR Bearpen Gap NR Tapoco, NC

Monitoring location 0351706800 is associated with a Stream in Graham County, North Carolina. Current conditions of Discharge, Gage height, Precipitation, and more are available. Water data back to 1999 are available online.

Flood plain be flood plaining.

Normally there is a lochan way over there on one side, and the River Spey way over there on the other.

#Kinrara #Cairngorms #Spey #StormJocelyn #StormIsha

Nowhere near as bad as south and west Scotland, but the river Spey is reaching 2015 levels (when the Old Bridge Inn was flooded and closed for 5 months).
Pics from this morning, the water is higher now.
#Spey #Aviemore #Cairngorms
Found out my #Tomintoul granny threw dynamite over the side of the Grantown-on-Spey bridge 😳💣. Her dad had been a foreman on the roads and had some left-over dynamite in a shed. When he died she took it (sticks?) by car and threw it down into the river. Now have visions of a #BridgeOverTheRiverKwai ending scenario over the #Spey - bomber Bessie 🤣
#GrantownOnSpey.

Vanavond laat ik de leden van een personeelsvereniging uit Zwolle de volgende line-up proeven, natuurlijk vergezeld van de mooiste whiskyverhalen en een flinke dosis humor:
-#CopperDog blended (by the #CraigellachieHotel)
- #Bulleit Rye
- #Pogues Irish
- #Spey Tenné
- #Aberlour 16yo
- #theIleach peated Islay

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Come for a blether about #beavers 🦫🦫 - #Cairngorms National Park Authority

https://cairngorms.co.uk/come-for-a-blether-about-beavers/

This is exciting stuff:
“The Cairngorms National Park Authority is working closely with a range of partners to develop a carefully considered proposal to bring beavers back to the area… …habitat assessment work has determined that parts of the Upper #Spey catchment will be the main area of focus initially.”

Come for a blether about beavers - Cairngorms National Park Authority

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