You know, when I wrote last week about the delights of Autumn little did I realise that the club had its own shaman with the power to shape the weather here at Horton.  If I had known this I would have summoned his services much earlier this summer and certainly invoked his powers to lift the drought last year.  As I said last week, on reading my ode Alan M immediately emailed me to ruefully reflect that whilst the Autumn was indeed a good one what we really wanted was a lot of overnight rain before the close of the season.  I don't know to which rain God Alan pays homage but strange to relate that since Sunday overnight rain is exactly what we have had here - consistently!  For the past 3 days we have had bright, sunny mornings and early afternoons with the cloud building by late pm to produce rain just as it turns dark. It did so last evening so that the river remains in good shape and certainly fit for salmon fishing.

I think we owe a debt of gratitude to Alan for his remarkable intervention.  I only hope that he can get up here to enjoy the fruits of his labours. 

As you can tell from the above it's another stunning morning here with plenty of sun, blue sky and virtually no wind.  I haven't been to look at the river yet but my guess is that the rain we had last night which had stopped by the early hours will have lifted the level a bit without putting too much colour into the water. 

Ian