A much colder, greyer and damp day.  Not enough rain to have any impact on the river, just enough to make fishing the Tarn a bit of a challenge.  Still, one member's guest seemed pleased with his day at the Tarn.  Three fish caught and returned.

Up at Ling Gill work is progressing well.  Fifteen minutes after arriving the breaches we put in the dams to preserve their integrity overnight were repaired and the beck drawn down.  The 2ft diameter pipes to form the flumes which will carry the beck through the dams arrived on site and by earl afternoon we had the beck below the top dam empty of boulders and gravel.  We also had a haul of well on 300 native crayfish rescued from the work area.  All these were measured and sexed before being released some distance further up Cam Beck.  We had a good number of volunteers from the Environment Agency with us today, all practical people well able to crack on with a task and use initiative to get the jobs done efficiently, safely and effectively.

Tomorrow we begin building the semi permanent dams that will be in place all summer so the graft will be shuttering, mixing and pouring bentonite and concrete and setting the flume in place.  By the end of the week I shall be a fully qualified navvy.

Ian