Took this off another forum

Heavy rain renders England’s practice useless.
After almost two weeks spent at the venue practicing, heavy rain has rendered Drennan Team England’s careful preparation useless. The hills feeding the River Morava, where the championship is set to take place have received prolonged and heavy rainfall, changing the usually docile river into a raging torrent.

Team member, Des Shipp said: “We might as well forget about information gleaned in practice up to now, when light floats and whips were order of the day. On a low river, the key to good results was catching bleak, but with the extra water in the system hardly any have been caught in todays practice – when 30g flat floats have been needed to hold bottom.”

Worryingly, it seems that worst may be yet to come, as sources suggest that the flow will increase from the 60 cubic metres of water that the river is carrying today, to over 300 tommorow. I am worried that even the mammoth 50g flat floats that I have tied up may not be heavy enough! To make matters worse, the temperature has dropped dramatically too, from 23 degrees centigrade earlier in the week, down to just nine degrees today.

As is normally the case when conditions change, it is going to come down to each individual angler to work out how best to cope with the conditions that they are faced with on the day.”

TEAM FOR THE FIRST DAY
1 WIL RAISIN
2 STEVE GARDENER
3 STU CONROY
4 SEAN ASHBY
5 DES SHIPP
Alan is sitting out of the first day, the conditions are better than first thought yet not long pole fish have been caught all bleak weights Sean was the top weight today with 2kg something but england’s sector was a faster length today the french in the next sector had a kg a man more than England in the steadier water still 2kg in 4hours of bleak ain’t bad fishing