I was out early yesterday and spent a thoroughly enjoyable morning giving a new member a conducted tour of the fishery.  We first went down to Helwith Bridge then proceeded up the river calling at all the best beats as far up as Lodge Hall.  The river looked in fine form with good clear water and a lot of hatching fly.  We saw few rises and little sign of fish stirring, but the weather was a bit oppressive and thundery which may have kept them down.

We finished up at the Tarn where two members were enjoying considerable success tempered only by the presence of the RAF who seemed to be trying to find out how low they could get a Tornado at full throttle without "failing to maintain ground clearance" as I once saw in a USAF crash report.  We stood on the board walk round the hut watching a couple of perfectly formed rainbows cruising in and out of the weed in the gin clear water.  All in all a reasonable introduction to the delights of the fishery I hope.

It's once again cloudy and showery here this morning with very little breeze.  It feels less oppressive than yesterday and if we do get some sunny breaks then the fish may well rise a bit more freely today.

Ian