It's a change to much cooler weather this morning with a lot of cloud and the threat of rain to come.  However, there is little or no wind so fishing should be quite good on both a replenished river and restocked Tarn.

I finished reading "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen" yesterday and what an absorbing book it turned out to be.  I suppose that the underlying message is the importance of belief and that it's quite possible to achieve the impossible against all received wisdom, common sense and the nay sayers if you simply have faith in your convictions and believe totally in ultimate success. 

I guess that there is a message here for fishermen.  One must go to the river in the firm belief that fish will be caught.  To do otherwise is to court failure even though the omens be not good.  When I taught management theory we called this the power of positive thought and impressed upon our students the importance of approaching any task or project with the firm belief that it would succeed totally.  We seem to be surrounded by negative influences and cynicism, its a national pastime to be cynical and it does prevent the rush to over exuberance that seems to engulf our transatlantic cousins far too often.  But being too cynical too often can rob us of that genuine childlike conviction that miracles are possible and success is ours to grasp.  So next time you stand by the river and it seems devoid of fish or you sit in the boat at the Tarn and all seems dead just believe that you will catch a fish and who knows?

Ian