A busy day yesterday.  In the morning the Hon sec and I showed three prospective members around the fishery.  These visits seemed to go well especially as we saw a few fish rising on the river and our first guest was rewarded on arrival at the Tarn with the sight of a member striking a fine rainbow.  The remark was "Gosh, it's a bar of silver".  All three guests seemed very keen to join us.

The late afternoon was spent arranging to deal with a mink problem that has arisen at Selside.  The Hon sec spotted one possibly two of these invaders whilst he was fishing at Coppy Gill.  It or they seemed totally unconcerned by his presence and carried on nosing around the holes and roots in the bank whilst he stood open mouthed watching.  Visits last night to the two farmers with land here has now opened the way to dealing with the problem today.

The river is now quite low after a good few days of dry weather and we could do with a little rain to provide some decent fishing water.  It's a colder, cloudier day today with a fairly stiff east wind.  The sun is breaking through now and then and the forecast is for unsettled weather up to the weekend, but we may not get much in the way of rain this far north.

The Tarn continues to fish as well as it has all month with retained fish being full of sedge.  One I cleaned yesterday had a stomach full to bursting.

Work is due to start tomorrow on the crayfish project and Paul has offered to write a note for members about the objectives and methods so expect more on this shortly.

Ian