Large trout seem to proliferating at present. After last week's large wild river brownie comes a report of to monster rainbows caught at the Tarn yesterday.  I was coming up the garden after collecting hens eggs yesterday afternoon when I spied a member and his guest advancing down the path towards me.  The guests ticket was handed back an I asked how much luck they had between the showers.  The answer was a near maximum take by our honoured member and two for his guest with a number of missed catches.  It seems that our member had been fishing well down in the water from the boat and got a strike which felt like a small dog on the end of the line as the fish was obviously rather large and was shaking its head violently to try to dislodge the tackle which it clearly objected to.  On drawing this beast to the side of the boat it became clear that it was well nigh longer than the boat net.  The conservative estimate is that this rainbow weighed in at around 4lb and was in very good condition.  Not content with this our member repeated the experience with another monster shortly after which he is sure was not the same fish.

Those members of slight build or frail constitution have been duly warned.

It's another showery day here, but with less rain overnight the river has now lost much of its colour and is in good fishing condition.  The forecast is for better weather over the bank holiday weekend.

Ian