All went well yesterday with the procedure on my left eye and I can now see better that at any time in my life.  It's amazing what medical science is capable of now.  My problem stemmed from the thickness of the envelope that holds the lens in front of the eye.  Since my cataract operation I no longer have a front to this envelope, but at the rear of the new lens it is thick enough to cause significant blurring of sight.  Literally 3 minutes in front of a small laser removed the back of the envelope and I now have almost pin sharp focus.

What I can't fathom is how you target the laser to remove just the offending tissue.  One imagines that you would walk away with several small holes drilled right through your skull admitting daylight to those parts never intended to be illuminated.

As for conditions here.  The river continues to fish well in moderately high flow and today has seen less wind which has made casting less of a challenge.  I see from the club website that most of our recent visitors have had success using olive CDC dun, tan klinkhammer and bead headed nymph, but with such cold and windy conditions recently fly hatches have been sparse so what you use is really going to be a matter of trial and error.

Now that I can at long last see a fly on a leader I shall have to give the river a go myself.

Ian