It was a cold, bright start this morning with quite a heavy frost after rain and cold wind yesterday.  It's now warmed up appreciably to give a decent if rather cloudy afternoon.

The Tarn continues to fish very well and the stats fore last week give me no cause for concern at all.  Most visits have resulted in healthy catches and compliments continue to come in about the quality of the fish and their willingness to fight hard.  Do remember hat there are some blue trout amongst the rainbows.  If you land one just record it  in the register column for browns and put a note in the right hand margin.

Do be careful when crossing the wall beyond the hut.  The stile step here collapsed under one member on Friday prompting a impromptu working party by said member to replace the step.  It's a decent job, but the wall adjacent to the stile is collapsing and until I can get to rebuild it do treat the stile with extreme caution as 2 ton of stone on your foot will limit future mobility.

The Telegraph ran an article on 1 April claiming that scientists have discovered a way of generating electricity through the movement of fish in a river.  Experiments have allegedly shown that different species are capable of generating different amounts of power with chub at the lower end of the scale and salmonids at the top.  The process involves fish fining past receptors placed on the river bank and could lead to almost unlimited amounts of free energy.  Regrettably the date of this article dooms it as a spoof so it's back to the horse and windlass for us yokels!

The local forecast is for more rain tomorrow and a very wet day on Tuesday leading up to a wet Easter weekend.  The river should be in good water by Good Friday.

Ian