So, August comes in with a bang!  It's been a pretty noisy night here with thunder rumbling round the hills and torrential rain.  Consequently the river is currently in full spate.  It looks angry and is full of colour so fishing is a non starter until the levels drop off which will take a little time as the riverside meadows are all under water and the becks are brim full.  It has brightened a bit just now and we even have some patches of blue sky and a little watery sunshine so prospects for later in the day are quite good.

The rather better news is that salmon have been found making their way up the river Nene at Peterborough.  This is the first sighting of salmon on this river for many years.  It's a river I know quite well from my time in North Bedfordshire and it never struck me as ideal salmon territory being muddy and sluggish, but if salmon are in the Thames I suppose that there is no good reason why they should not find the rather cleaner Nene to their liking.  How long before salmon are seen at Bedford on the Great Ouse.  It would have really been something to have seen them jumping the weir at Great Barford close by my old house.

Ian