For some obscure reason my last couple of blogs have not posted to the site.  Odd.  Still, not much has happened this week so far, but we did plan to introduce the gammarus to the nursery at the hatchery a couple of  days ago.  This has been delayed due to my shrimp supplier being busy with work so the plan now is to get them in sometime this weekend.  It will be interesting to see how well they survive and whether they recruit well.  If the experiment works then the plan is to use the nursery as a constant supply of shrimp which can be seeded into other nurseries, brought on in the hatchery and transferred in a waterproof bag to other sites when the population is recruiting well.  We shall see.

Its been a rather wet week with a mix of sunshine and showers so the river has been up and down like a brides nightie.  We had a lot of rain last night so the river is now just coming of the flood and clearing.  I guess that by this afternoon it should be fishing well provided that we don't get a lot more rain.  Fly hatch is another matter.  Despite evidence of plenty of invertebrate larvae hatches have been sparse on the river.  What we need is a lot more sun to warm thing up a bit and get the hatches moving.  It's a different matter on the Tarn where we have had colossal hatches of damsel flies and clouds of caenis.  We have also seen very substantial hatches of olives in the past few weeks and dry fly fishing has been very good for a lot of members.

It looks like a busy day at the Tarn with three members already in residence and at least another two known to be on their way up.  If it goes on like this we may Have to instigate a queueing system.

Ian