It will be an evening posting here for the next few days whilst we are working at Ling Gill.  Today was a great success.  In glorious weather that is more like July than April we set up, built two temporary dams, drained down the beck and began clearing the bedrock substrate of boulders and gravel.  All larger life is being moved above the dams and we found a few bullhead, their eggs, frogs and frog spawn and a good number of healthy crayfish.

Work was fortified by a generous supply of bacon butties and mid afternoon a trip down to Settle gave us a chance to fortify this unhealthy menu with ice creams.

Tomorrow we should begin building the semi permanent dams that will be in place until the completion of the project.  We may also get in the flume pipes that will carry the beck past the dams and finish clearing down the substrate. 

This really is a wonderful place to work and we seem to have already worked out a regime that makes the job not only rewarding, but also thoroughly enjoyable.

Turning to the fishery.  The sun is tending to put the fish lower in the Tarn so early morning or late evening are probably the best times to fish until the weather breaks.  The forecast is for cloudier weather moving in tomorrow night with rain on Thursday so it's just possible that the river will be fishable again by the weekend.  I'll keep you posted.

Ian