It's currently dry here for a change and has been all night so the spate conditions on the river that plagued us yesterday will be abating and the colour should begin to drop out (always providing that it remains dry!).

As many of you will know, I keep a running check on fishing returns at the Tarn so that stocking levels can be adjusted to take account of activity.  For some time now I have said that fishing has been good here, but the statistics really back up this assertion.  For the week between 4 and 11 August eighteen visits were made to the Tarn and these resulted in 69 fish caught of which 28 fish were returned.  This represents a catch to visit ratio of 3.83 fish (presumably one fish was minus its tail).  the previous week was even better.  There were fewer visits but more fish were caught per visit giving a ratio of 5.  Considering that the catch limit is 6 per visit that's an incredible ratio and suggests that almost all visits resulted in maximum catch.

I have received a report from Paul Bradley on the state of our native crayfish in the Tarn.  It's fairly long so rather than paste it into the blog I will post it up as a word document attachment to tomorrows blog.  It makes encouraging reading and is very complementary about the club's management of the Tarn.

Ian