This run of glorious autumn weather continues with another blue sky morning and plenty of warm sunshine.  I stood at New Inn yesterday afternoon and watched a sizable hatch of sedge coming off the water prompting a reasonable number of rises in the pool above the bridge.  I was down there following a visit from the Hon Sec who brought a guest up to Horton to fish.  As he arrived at the Crown he happened to be doing what I did later and stood by the wall watching rises when into his field of view sailed a red float followed by a flotilla of sweet corn.  It seems that a laddo camped on New Inn flats had decided to try his luck and was promptly  'spoken to' and his licence examined.  This turned out to be out of date so a call from my place to the EA followed which revealed that the nearest EA enforcement officer was at Carnforth and no action could be taken.  It must be acutely frustrating for the EA officers on the ground to be so under resourced and one really wonders why we pay such a high (and rising) price for our rod licences only to see enforcement given such a low priority by EA managers.

My further visits to New Inn later on found our friend in his tent presumably having been persuaded that fishing at Horton would be less that rewarding.

Although the river is dropping off quickly now there is still sufficient water for good trout fishing.  It's far to low for salmon although one was seen jumping in the Marker Pool yesterday.

Ian