Grim

Cold, windy, raining. Horrible.

I can't ( or won't) work in this crappy weather and neither can I sit indoors all day, regardless of what I'm doing.

I decided to have another recce on The Suffolk Test. Before the recce, I checked out the roach stretch. It was up and coloured, you could almost say " in flood ", though it wasn't dirty and there was no floating detritus. 

Had to have a quick go didn't I ? First swim, the "hot peg", not a touch. Never mind, another place downstream offered steady water and I'd had several fish from the same spot on Tuesday.

It was hard, but I winkled out half a dozen decent fish to a pound or so in less than two hours, when I packed up, wet and freezing cold.

Sitting in the van with the heater on, my fingers slowly came back to life and after a bite to eat I donned the waterproofs and wellies and checked out another stretch upstream.

Difficult to say what it was like, as it was going through like a train. Let's just say I wasn't inspired.

Hopefully the rain will relent and we can hit the river in prime condition again soon.