Having had a huge amount of steady rain in the months leading up to Christmas, a grand amount of gravel washing completed by November, a fish pass now into its second winter, no legal netting of Salmon in Poole harbour and a catch and return policy on the Frome, fingers crossed we could (should) be in for a record Salmon Redd count!
Today we headed far far up stream of Dorchester as far as the River Hooke, no Salmon redds but plenty of Trout redds, the furthest up stream Salmon redd we found was at Maiden Newton, but unfortunately this was a one off.
The next one was at Southover on some cleaned gravel that we helped the Dorset Wildlife Trust work on last year.
We covered quiet a few miles today, and we did find a few more redds, and watched some cracking Salmon doing their stuff, and Elliot still had the energy to skate back to the truck.....better add that one to our risk assessment!
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