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River at a good level with clear visibility. Weather was overcast with periods of sunshine and light winds.
Fish caught between Abernant Stream and Lady Alexander's Catch on a variety of flies, such as Klinkhammer, Waterhen Bloa and Gold Ribbed Hare's Ear.

7 Trout, 1 Grayling

A cold and partly rainy day, no rises seen at all and no interest in any nymphs offered! Blank day sadly. Enjoyed the usual warm welcome at the Seven Stars.

Spey casting (both double and single) using various established types of salmon flies proved unsuccessful.
Bright sunny conditions prevailed and despite the lack of fish a most enjoyable time was had by all.

Some lovely water. Only had a few hours in the morning. Had one of the top it was nice to see a few fish rising. The rest were on nymphs though. Quite a few takes on the bottom of this beat. Would have love to have had more time.

3 Trout, 1 Grayling

Seth at WUF suggested Abernant as a good beat for high water and he was spot on. This is a beautiful stretch of water and almost all suitable to fly fishing. Sadly, no salmon seen but I fish through the tail of Abernant Catch where I caught four trout in quick succession - not much of a feat on the salmon rod I know but one of around 3lbs put up a great fight. An enjoyable day notwithstanding the 3 and half hour drive!

4 Trout

River conditions were good - slight colouring of the water. I was using a black and silver dry fly for sea trout and caught the brown trout on it late on in the day.

1 Trout

Typical spring day - bright, breezy and fresh. River at a really good height for this beat, water carrying a tinge of colour and predictably cold for March.
Apart from a dense, 5 minute flurry of March Browns at midday, little in the way of fly life. Just one rising fish in the 4 hours spent on the water.
Managed 2 pretty wbt of around 10" and one oos grayling of around 15". All caught on weighted nymphs.
As ever, good to be casting a fly after a long, wet winter.

2 Trout, 1 Grayling

With snow on the mountain tops as I drove up here and a strong downstream wind, this was always going to be a difficult day for flyfishing. I gave up trying conventional methods and resorted to wading to mid river and lobbing a shortline upstream in front of me czech nymph style. Eventually persistance paid off and I landed two small trout (1/2lb ish) with one other that came off. Later in the day an out of season Grayling of about a pound rounded off the session. All fish took a weighted GRHE.

2 Trout, 1 Grayling

Used Devon Minnow. Water coloured. Had one brown trout at one and a half pound and one sea trout at three pounds. No salmon.

1 Trout, 1 Sea Trout

NIL RETURN. Must have been wearing my anti Grayling aftershave again! River was still a tad high and VERY cold.
Only sign of a fish we saw was a ruck of Salmon Scales on the bank of Lady Alexander's Pool, Otter or Poaching?