Isn't it always the way?  Just as the season comes to an end down comes the rain and the river is in super salmon fishing condition. Since Sunday we have had a series of spates and the fish have been coming up the Foss in droves.  I have had a number of calls from locals in raptures about the sight of leaping salmon down at Stainforth.  A guest staying in my holiday flat went home as pleased as punch with his first ever photo of a salmon in full flight.  Less welcome were the visitors captured in the photo below whose fishing methods were unorthodox in the extreme.



Seriously though,  we haven't yet to contend with this problem at Stainforth.  (Picture acknowledgements to Roman Gollubenko/Solent and the Daily Telegraph).

I'm switching now to a weekly Blog probably posted on Sundays.  The daily dose of rant will return in March.

Ian