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Guiding the WUF auction lot winners during the day. Commiserations to John who lost a belter in the Chain and to Dudley who tried hard and fished well, but the fish were just too flighty in the low water and bright sun, but congrats to Paul for his 5 nice fish to just over the pound. During the day we spooked a number of notably large fish and despite trying to get them to stay for the evening, they had to leave at 7 to drive north. I decided to stay and fish the spinner fall.

First fish started mopping spinners around 20.30. I eased into the Salmon pool and ignored several mid sized fish and targetted a large fish moving around the overhanging willow. When I finally got my jingler to intersect with its feeding route it was taken. substaintial mid river sloshing was followed but a powerful run up the pool and a jump showing a fish comfortably over 4lb! It then turned and headed for the willows and there was nothing I could do. The pool was now dead, so I headed up to the Run. Fish were feeding hard along the inside seam. after a couple of 12oz fish I saw a better one move and cast to it. It took and i missed the strike, but it continued feeding! On the third attempt I connected and a butter fat 16" fish of just over 2lb was the result.
Headed back to the salmon pool and a couple of good fish where moving on the inside. The one that took the jingler was a skinny 22"er that could quite pull the scales to the 3lb line. The fish kept on feedind and there was a good one tracking up the shingle on the far side. It took the jingler first cast and the first slosh showed it was substaintial. A good scrap followed and I was far enough away from the snags that it never made them and a superbly conditioned 20.5" 3lb 1oz fish was the result. It was almost 21.45 now and despite several other good fish moving I was sated and didn't cast again. This is why you have to fish late at this time of year.

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2 Trout

Water as expected very low given conditions. Significant mayfly hatch, with march browns and olive duns.
1lb fish caught in the gloaming at upper beat in the ripple mid-stream.

1 Trout

Great day however no fish to the net. Battled to match the hatch. Lovely venue, will be back.

6 Trout

Interesting session. Promising start lost 3 sizeable fish on a dry around 10am once the air temp rose and the hatches began. From there on in it became very frustrating with lots of fish rising throughout the beat but unwilling to take anything I was throwing at them. Stopped about 3pm with just a tiddler to my name caught on a nymph. Enjoyed it all the same very nice water to fish. I wouldn't recommend it for anyone unsteady on their feet as steep banks and accessing the water is quite tricky.

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1 Trout

Great day, arrived at the river around midday to find a steady hatch of olives and LDOs with trout rising. This continued throughout the afternoon with some added yellow may duns. Fishing not easy with the river low and clear and bright sunshine all day, but fish were willing to take an olive Emerger pattern. 10 in total with 5 missed/lost along the way. The highlight being a clonker of 21 inches, taken in skinny water which raised a few sketchy moments on the 3wt and 6x tippet. Epic evening rise in the last hour of daylight but struggled to tempt them amongst all the activity.

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