It's a very dour start to the day here with heavy grey cloud and a light mizzle settling on the hills and fells.  The forecast is for more rain later which will run off the saturated ground quickly bringing the river into spate in short order.  We had a lot of rain yesterday which brought a spate by evening.  The salmon will be running, but in a very high and coloured water.

They say that a picture is worth a thousand words so what better way to sum up our Ribble salmon than this amazing photo of what looks to be a hen fish on Stainforth Foss on Thursday.  My grateful thanks to Andy Rushforth who took the shot for permission to post it.


Ian