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River Frome - Wool 0800 - 1400 Mild, overcast and very windy! AT 11º-13ºC. River still very pacey with a little colour but well within its banks at last. 1.16m on the E Stoke gauge still higher than I would have liked but lowest since early autumn! 11 Grayling: 7 over 1lb - best: 1lb 10oz, 1lb 8oz, 1lb 7oz. 1 Trout - small. 6 Salmon parr. 2 trip of the season to Dorset - and looking at the forecast for the next week probably my last - heavy rain will stuff the river up for several weeks again. Wind made fishing a bit of a challenge at times, it was straight downstream in most swims - in fact actually standing up in the stronger gusts was a bit of a challenge at times!! Most grayling from one swim which I kept resting and returning to. Sign on Wool bridge - might amuse some of my readers - Martin?

Actually the name has more comedy value - it's T Fooks. Found guilty you would have been well and truly Fooked!

Thanks NI - can't quite think why I've neglected the Whitehouse stretch for so long - probably because it's a bit featureless and gets a lot of footfall on the towpath - but I reckon your right that this keeps the cormorants away at least and possibly the otters though the ones I've bumped up against on the Kennet seem pretty oblivious to humans - once had one swim right past me whilst I was wading mid river - I could have almost patted it on the head as it swam past! Only fished Padworth once this season - but never used to do very well in the winter there even when it was at its peak a couple of decades ago!

Hi Chris ,glad you are fishing the Thatcham stretch behind the "white house" ,it is my favourite haunt for the last couple of years. I knew with your methods you would catch nice chub ,there are huge shoals of roach/bream and perch also and am sure you will catch large perch there. Seen big pike also and caught brownies way bigger than 4.5lb one you caught. Maybe there is enough foot bike traffic to keep the otters away I look forward to your reports on Padworth ,also accessible on the Thatcham tickets. Though this abounds with otters and cormorants.