Well, it looks as if that's it for the 2009 season.  The river has fallen quickly today and is now too low for decent salmon fishing.  With no real rain forecast for the next few days it's unlikely that we will get another spate before Friday.

I got a call this evening from a friend who has lived all her long life in the village and had taken a relative down to Stainforth to see if there were any salmon coming up the Foss.  She was beside herself with excitement having spent an hour by the falls during which time she thinks that she saw dozens of fish leaping.  Many were quite large, but she was intrigued by the small (she believes about 2lb) fish that were jumping also.  these seem too small to be returning salmon and my thought was that these were sea trout, but I would welcome any ideas.  Coincidentally Alan M dropped by at lunchtime having caught the last of the good water this morning and also caught and returned an eight pound very coloured fish.  Alan said that he was just leaving the pool below Whit (Monkey) Beck when a shoal of five trout passed him going up stream.  Received wisdom tells us that trout don't shoal, but could these also be migrating sea trout?

Finally, here is a photo of the discharge entering the river yesterday.