Someone once said (and I can't remember who) that all predictions are unreliable especially when they concern the future.  So it would also seem with fishing.  My confident prediction that the river would be in fine form today seemed pretty valid last evening and even this morning after a few showers overnight conditions here looked perfect with plenty of lightly tinged water, scattered cloud and even some sunshine.  Enter upon the scene our upper river expert and his guest both eager to tempt some wild brownies from their lurking places above Lodge Hall.  I asked them to report back when they returned the ticket stub this evening as I was confident of a really successful day.  I could see by the look on his face as I opened the door a little while ago that my confidence was ill founded.  He sayeth unto me "I wish you hadn't asked me to let you know how we got on.  I have just had my worst day on the river since the beginning of the season with just 1 fish of 12 inches and a couple of others just around eight inches.  My guest has had 2 decent fish and we have seen others, but it's been hard work"

I can think of some members who would be fairly happy with a return of  five fish for a few hours work, but since this particular member reckons on a good day being twenty odd fish I can understand his misery.

I will stick to predicting lottery wining numbers in future.  It's much easier!

Ian