After a very wet night that has put a good flow on the river this morning is much brighter and drier.  The forecast for the next few days is for building high pressure with clear skies and light winds so fishing conditions should be much better than of late.

I was up at the Tarn yesterday morning in a bitingly cold south east wind that was whipping up some sizeable waves on the water.  Nothing was moving and even the swans were keeping low in the nest on the reed bed.  I have put a note from Gavin P in the Lodge about laminating your EA license.  These are getting flimsy and by the end of the season most will probably have turned to mush unless protected.  Gavin will professionally laminate your license by return of post so that it will remain legible until October.

The new signs for the fishery have arrived and very smart they look.  Over the next week or so I will get these put up at selected and discrete points along the river.  They won't do much to deter four footed poachers, but they should help to reinforce our legal ownership for those two footed poachers that can read.

I spent last evening installing a new document library on the member's website.  This should be not only easier to use than the last version, but also has the advantage of enabling us to upload video and sound clips that can be played using the library's own built in player.  I will have a play with this when I next get time, but if any member has shot any video clips in MP3 or MP4 format that they would like to share then just email them to me and I shall upload them to the site.  The same applies to sound clips.

I have not yet checked that all the document links have been reset so if you find a link to a document in an article that's broken please let me know.

Ian