Arrived for my short session to be told by an angler on the car park bank that he'd had nothing all day, so walked round to my usual spot on the south bank.

Though a warmish, bright day, and conditions still, virtually no fish activity on the surface apart from the occasional tiddler. With nothing happening on leger, I set up a light float rod and missed several bites before landing two roach, one as big as three ounces. Ah well, at least it wasn't a blank.

The only other highlight was the Chinook that flew over. There's not been a rock record made that wouldn't be improved with the thud-thud-thud of a Chinook in flight as the back beat. While certainly my favourite twin-rotored helicopter, I worry that  it must be pretty easy a target in a combat scenario, it being large, slow and you hear them coming from miles off.