Tuesday 2nd November

 Franca took pictures on her early morning walk in the estate.

I had a meeting with Jim Smail at the Town Hall to have a look at a Hardy Perfect 4 inch reel that was lying in his cupboard for a good many years. Unfortunately it was a right hand retrieve non changeable.
Moreover the price range he indicated was 600-800 pounds. It looked as if it was hardly used.

Late in the morning we parked at the side of the road where our beat for the day was situated across the field. Mike was already there and preparing his new Shakespeare Scandi rod, 14 ft 9" #10.
After Mike had flattened the prickly vegetation across the road we jumped a fence and went down to the river. More brambles were hit by Mike, I just stepped on them.
The river was a good height, we could get in and wade along the bank. Some parts of the bank had collapsed into the river in the recent flood.

Mike is the man of the day with two fish, a 40+ grayling and a decent trout. We saw a few salmon jumping.

It was a lovely, dry and partly sunny day with a modest temperature.

We hope to fish our regular beats tomorrow if the gauge will touch under the 1 metre mark, as expected.