I see from the local weather forecast that tomorrow promises to be a real pig of a day with very heavy rain due to fall during the afternoon.  A marked contrast to the glorious autumn day that we had today featuring wall to wall sunshine, a very light breeze and an almost balmy temperature. A pity the trout season has ended as conditions were just about perfect for trouting with plenty of water on the runs and riffles and a really good flow going down the refurbished fish pass at Settle weir helping to bring our migrating Salmo salar up to Horton.  If we get the rain that's promised for tomorrow then Wednesday should be a great salmon fishing day.

My babbling yesterday about runner ducks brought a response from a regular correspondent that had me laughing out loud.  It would seem that I'm not the first resident of Newhouses to keep runners.  They were kept by my much missed neighbour Mary many years ago and she used to take them together with her geese up to the Tarn.  It would seem that one of our illustrious past members was of the habit of shooting duck at the Tarn and one day, mistaking the resident domestic runners for pochard, terminated the egg laying career of two and went on his way rejoicing.  The rather stunned audience of fishing members who witnessed this execution repaired to Newhouses to quietly offer compensation for the crime.

Finally, to those two members who expressed some concern at the  absence of the swan family all last Tuesday, don't worry they were all safely feeding on the Tarn yesterday.

Ian