The Tarn has been stocked this week which should lift catches this back end and compensate for the end of brown trout fishing and the recent high water conditions.  We only put in 100 fish, but these were mixed sizes from just under two pounds to over three pounds.

Still no sign of cormorants so I hope that these less wise fish will have a chance to settle in without being disturbed.

I'm off out this morning with the RCCT fisheries scientist who is coming up to do some electrofishing in the side becks above Horton.  This has been long planned and is part of a much bigger programme that has seen many of the becks and feeders on the Ribble sampled all the way up from Preston.  It will be enlightening to see just what the populations of brown trout are like in our becks since no work like this has been done for many years.  It will help to inform decisions we take about how we continue to manage the fishery and promote the recruitment of our wild fish stocks.  Conditions this morning are near perfect with a river about 4 inches above normal, a clearing water, quite a bit of autumn sunshine and no wind.

I will let you know how we get on especially as this is my first experience of electrofishing.

Ian