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I have just done the invertebrate check at New Inn this morning and what a surprise.  The river is now very low after a couple of weeks without rain so I was expecting a fairly meagre result.  This certainly proved true for heptagenia (yellow May dun), but the results for baetis was quite spectacular with well over 200 specimens covering a range of sizes and colours coming into the net.  This is a marked contrast to January when in high water I got mostly heptagenia and lots of them.

So the main information you need from this is that if you plan to fish around New Inn over the next few days small baetis patterns are likely to tempt most fish.  It would be worth trying something very small and bright yellow as a good number of nymphs in the sample were sulphur yellow about an eighth of an inch long.

I came upon a flock of about 20 geese up by the Tarn early yesterday.  Too far away for a positive identification, but they looked too white to be Canadas.  I plan to wander up there shortly for a more considered look if they are still there so more on this tomorrow.

Finally, it's another cracking day here with plenty of sun, but a rather chilly south east breeze blowing up the valley.  As I have said above the river is now pretty low so fishing some of the shallower runs will be difficult and the pools are the best bet until we get some rain.

Ian