We had a surprisingly wet night with quite a lot of rain driven on by a strong southerly wind.  Consequently the river is up a bit this morning, probably not enough to make a good salmon water but the last couple of days of trout fishing should be good.  This morning is bright with broken cloud and patchy sunshine.  It's warm and the wind has dropped.  All in all, ideal conditions.

Yesterday I posted up a couple of pictures of Phil's  latest work at the Hatchery.  Look in the Hatchery folder.  All the recent rain has started to fill the crayfish pond so it's obvious that, at least, is watertight.

Received wisdom suggests that I should reduce these postings to once a week during the closed season so from Monday I will begin to wind things down a bit and post updates each Sunday from !5 October.  If we get the money to carry out the project at Nanny Carr's then there will be quite a bit to report so postings may be more frequent as work progresses.  Let's wait and see.

I recently had a contact from a trout conservation body in Toronto, Canada who had found us on the web.  This may lead to an interesting opportunity so watch this space.

Ian