Sorry about the silence from here yesterday.  I forgot to mention on Tuesday that we had to leave at the crack of dawn to go to a funeral in Ashton near Wigan.  Still, there was not much to report as fishing activity is fairly low at the moment and nothing much else of not happened on Tuesday.  

It's very cold this morning with a sharp frost, the first for nearly 12 months.  The day is showing signs of being bright and sunny so the frost should melt away quite quickly on the sunward side of the fells.  There is still a reasonable flow on the river.  Certainly enough to do a bankside check for October. So if I can get some work done early on this morning I may well take the kit down to New Inn later and see what a 3 minute sample shows up.  I might even get a sample done at Turn Dub which is the other spot I planned to do a monthly check.  There are one or two things that need attending to at the Tarn so a couple of hours up there this afternoon should be well spent.

With the Tarn closing on 31 October I think I will scale down the blog again this year to a weekly report interspersed with occasional observations and reports.  The daily diary will pick up again after the AGM next March.

Ian