After a dampish start it's turned bright and sunny with a moderate westerly breeze and the local forecast is for much of the same over the next few days.

The Tarn has been hard work again this week with fish seeming reluctant to take and few visible rises.  There could be a number of reasons for this lack of piscine cooperation.  Cormorants have been present so fish may have been spooked by predation, We stocked just over a week ago and the new residents may not yet have dispersed, or it may just be the weather and an exceptionally heavy hatch of sedge that is providing enough sub surface food to make rising not worth the effort.  Much has been written about the mind of fishes, but until we learn how to interpret behaviour with total accuracy (or learn how to communicate in fluent trout) your guess is as good as mine.

We may be a little short of water for the invertebrate check this coming Sunday unless it turns wet later in the week which seems unlikely, but my plan is to go ahead and do the check whatever the prevailing conditions.  The team is a little short on members this time due to absence on fishing trips etc (no sense of priorities some people!) so if any member fancies a couple of hours at Horton on Sunday morning catching and classifying bugs then do come along to the pavilion at 10.30.

Ian