I'm meeting Neil H from the EA later this morning at the Tarn.  We plan to dismantle the old fish feeder and use the scaffold poles that supported the feeding bins to form the framework for the net covers on the hatchery pond.  Once this is in place we can consider installing the jacuzzi box in which this years native ova will be put to hatch and grow on to swim up stage.  First, Neil plans to introduce the fry that are now rapidly outgrowing the tank in the School so once we do get some decent water and these little fish get fed up of the tank, we should see  a few hundred young brownies headed for the Ribble at New Inn.

Since we will need to cut the clips off the scaffold with an angle grinder and we will have the machine up at the Tarn I will see how feasible it is to remove the old bent stile at the lay-by.  This is useless and an eyesore.  I have been itching to get shot of it for years.  It makes the place look uncared for.

The long term forecast promises some rain for next week, but all could change between now and then.  So "fingers crossed" that we may be able to see the back of the rather stagnant ditch that is currently the Ribble at least in the short term.

It's breezier this morning, but bright and sunny and mercifully midge free. 

Ian