So far the foul weather that was forecast for this weekend has failed to materialise and in fact we have a good deal of sunshine right now.  There is still a nasty cold south east breeze blowing up river, but aside from this fishing conditions are rather good.  I was up at the Tarn at "cock leeat" just to check around and see if the pen had hatched her eggs yet.  It was pleasant sitting in the hut watching life on the water with just the calling of the lambs and piping of the oyster catchers to disturb the quiet.  NO sign of cygnets yet.

I mentioned last week that one of our regular fishers had scored a success at the pipe pool.  I shall let Andrew tell the tale in his own words.

Have just been catching up with your past weeks blogs.and noticed that someone(possibly Gavin P and Son) had told you about "The Tuesday Boys" success with a big wild brownie.
To date , this year ,Quin and I have only fished the river on 4 Tuesday mornings and neither of us have caught or even seen a fish  -  that is ,until last Tuesday.
We were fishing the Walker/Thompson run, just downstream of Cragghill farm and I was casting a single Partridge and Orange fly with a new light 5 piece traveller rod that my two sons had bought me for my 75th birthday.
Casting downstream I suddenly got pulled up with a jerk as a, nigh on, 3lb brown trout took the fly and stripped line from the reel.

Quin ,who was fishing about 100metres upstream of me saw the tussle I was having and came galloping downstream   (He was a renowned sprinter in his younger days)   and was on hand with net and camera to capture the event before I returned the beautiful ,fully finned fish back to the water. A photo of my hands holding the fish is attached- Quin thought it better to keep my face out of it so as not to spoil a good picture.   Pah! Typical!
Regards
Andrew

Here is Quin's picture of the best wild brownie I have seen on the river for some time.



Well done Andrew.  A fish to be proud of.

Ian