River Lambourn - Newbury

0830 - 1300

Mild, overcast and breezy. AT 11/12ºC. River very high - 1.96m on the Shaw gauge (21cm above top of normal range) but crystal clear despite nearly (yet) another ½ inch of rain yesterday.

13 Grayling: 5 over a lb - best 3; 1lb 13oz and 2 @ 1lb 9oz. 2 Brownies - both around 1¼lb (and might have been the same fish!!).

Usual rest and return tactics - most fish from 3 swims and most fish on trotted red corn.

Not so much The lady of the Stream - more The Black Prince!