It's time to blow the cobwebs off the river gear, dust down the river flies and get fishing.  For the first time in eight weeks we have some decent water on the river and the fish are moving.  Water levels are a bit high this morning and it's still a little coloured, but with the rain now abated and the forecast set for showers and fairing up later there should be good conditions by this afternoon.

Just right as I am showing a prospective member around at 10 this morning so he will see the fishery in fairly good conditions.  Mind you, it's rather blustery at present with a strong and gusting north westerly breeze that's keeping temperatures on the chilly side.  This will undoubtedly irritate the Thursday boys who are fishing the Tarn.

Now here is something for all those of you untouched so far by the credit crunch and who have the odd few thousand to splash out just to keep the consumer economy nicely ticking over.  News reaches me that Carl Lagerfeld has just launched a range of fishing gear all marked with the famous double C logo of Chanel.  You too can look like a complete prat when you arrive at the river wearing your carefully co-ordinated waders, with fly rod and set of flies each with the logo.  What the trout will think of this, I can't imagine, but I doubt if they will be impressed.  The cost of this flummery? £9,170 to you sir!  Still, I suppose Coco Chanel was an angler at least during the time she spent with the late Duke of Windsor, but judging by the Duke's reputation I doubt if they did much fishing when buried in the bushes.

Ian