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Busy days fishing, 1 fish in the morning , 9 in the afternoon and lost another 4 and had another 3 bites. Busy but all sub 9”, future is looking bright!

10 Trout

The weather was certainly better than the day before at Penpont still a bit of a breeze but not to much of an issue down on the river bed. Very sunny so that took the chill off.

First time back here for a few years , and it seems a lot less of the beat is accessible. A lot of severe bank erosion on the rh side in the middle section, where I thought discretion was the better part of valour, and the left hand is very overgrown in places.

Beautiful day but no fish, no hatch and no visible activity.

Super day at The Rectory despite nil return. The refurbished fishing hut and decking are really lovely to relax in.

Great day all caught on scruffy olive nymphs - euronymphing. Most small but four or five better fish to 1lb. Very windy made bottom part of beat impossible.

15 Trout

All fish returned.
River was fast flowing with a gusty wind blowing from down stream.
Grayling was caught on an olive emerger and the small brook trout on a hares ear nymph.

1 Trout, 1 Grayling

It felt like December rather than April with ant wind to add to the pain

Fished for 3 hours. No action at all

Another odd sort of day weather wise !!! Cool, with an easterly breeze .....Dire for thr big lakes in the Cwm Elan !! Thr sun put in sn appearance ftom.11 ish today...... Again cool till about two .
The Ithons sitting at a nice level ...0.182 was the last time I looked at it ... Perfect tbh !!@
Dry fly sport was fun between 1:45 and 2:30, with s good flurry of olives between that window. The trout quickly switched on , with splashy activity on most of the decent pools.....
Five trout to the net, another long range released one also, and, one really decent grayling. The trout were the usual stamp, seven to eleven inches, with the fighting fit, quickly released lady, being about 16 or 17 inches ...All, took a dry, three to risers, the remainder, tight at the pool heads, in the creases.....The Grayling certainly put a good bend in my six foot two weght rod, cracking stuff !!!
A fun session here, but a frustrating down stream wind. When it picked up, I packed up, and mooched back across the fields to my truck....A perfect early season dry fly sortie !!!! Lovely job .....

5 Trout, 1 Grayling

6 Trout

Access at the top of the beat was restricted by padlocked access gate- I spoke to Alyson in the office about this.
The beat map shows a clear foot access path from the top going downstream- I could not find it as it appears to be completely overgrown? Somewhat spoiled the days fishing

1 Trout

2 Trout