Trent in flood

I havent been on the bank since before christmas so I snatched a quick session on the river Trent this week. The bad news was that it has been raining for nearly a week solid and the river was about 8 feet up and full of debris.
I set up a float road and a ledger rod with a lump of meat. I was gambling that the fish would be in the margins out of the main flow so I started off running a stick float through but the current was so quick that the float was dissapearing into the gathering evening gloom within seconds. The float rod was quickly sidelined in favour of the ledger rod wich I dropped more or less under the rod tip. The quiver tip kept giving what looked like big lunging bites but I failed to conect with any and decided it was just debris hitting the line.
Needless to say my confidence was completely gone and it wasnt long before the gear was back in the van.
I still reckon the fish were in the edge!