I had to go out very early yesterday hence no blog, but the news would have been unchanging - rain!

It's actually stopped raining this morning, it's absolutely still and quite warm, but you can't see further than the other side of the lane due to thick fog. Still, it's better than the constant mizzle we have had for the past week.

I shall be interested to see how the President got on yesterday.  As we came home at about 7.15pm I saw him making his way down towards the weir pools below Newhouses clearly intent on persuading our elusive sea trout that his artificial was a fly they simply could not ignore.

We know that there are sea trout in the river and with the incredibly wet summer that we have they should be up at Horton in good numbers.  Members who have fished towards dark in the past have had some success with this peripatetic trout and conditions looked promising last night.

I am going to try to get the Turn Dub invertebrate check done at long last today now that the river has relented and dropped to a level where one can stand up in it in mid flow.

Ian