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Another lovely day on my favourite little beat. The weather gods shone on me as this was the warmest day for weeks. No rising fish but a constant stream of takes from smallish grayling of around the 9 to 12 inch mark.

9 Grayling

16 x grayling 6-16 inches, 1 x out of season trout 10 inches, trotting. One big grayling, but the majority in the 10-11 inch class, so a healthy population here I would say. Some sunny spells in the morning, but falling temperatures and rising winds in the afternoon seemed to slow down bites.

16 Grayling

River running at a nice level and clear. Trotted red maggot and found it surprisingly tricky with a long rod tangling in the overhead branches, I would probably have done better with a fly rod and Euro nymphing from the bank. Nevertheless I caught some nice grayling and a couple of OOS trout.

2 Trout, 5 Grayling

1 Trout, 4 Grayling

River at 0.4 and falling on the Byton gauge, still a bit coloured after the small rise earlier in the week.
Managed 6 grayling between 6 and 8 inches, and landed my p.b. of 15 inches.
All taken on a ptn under a klinkhammer.
Fantastic day.
The small fish which were everywhere last week seem to have disappeared.

7 Grayling

The river was very turbid and high today and I doubted whether it was worth fishing, but I managed one trout on the French leader, and no grayling at all.

1 Trout

A good day on this lovely beat. The first few fish were taken on a heavy pink tagged nymph but on seeing fish rising in the afternoon I switched to dries. These moved several fish but I failed to connect so I scaled down to a size 18 Griffith's Gnat and was then able to take a few more. Some of the fish were a good size so all in all a very satisfying day.

6 Grayling

2 Trout, 6 Grayling

River at 0.37 falling slowly on the Byton gauge. Water slightly coloured.
Overcast but the sun broke through after midday.
Grayling all between 8 to 12 inches, trout both 12 inches, the other was a minnow. All on a size 18 ptn fished below a klinkhammer.
Also had a lot (20+) 3 inch grayling. River seemed to be alive with them. These mostly taken on the dry. How do they get their mouths on to a 14 hook is a mystery.

2 Trout, 13 Grayling, 1 Other

Warm and overcast pretty much all day, and with the water low and slightly coloured we were able to wade throughout the beat. We took fish all day, and from both fast riffles and deeper pools, managing to find a couple of shoals that provided great sport. We totalled 34 Grayling between us, most caught with small weighted PTNs or Pink Shrimps. All fish looked in great condition, and were safely returned.
Many Thanks !

34 Grayling