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Arrived early afternoon post rain and 20minutes in found myself in the middle of a rise all around me. Couldn't tie a dry fly on quick enough! 3rd cast and I had a lovely brown trout with a good fight jumping clear of the water numerous times. They seemed to cotton on to me and after that they went completely quiet. Caught down the bottom end. Two trout evaded me all day up the top end. constantly feeding off the surface. Missed one of them twice through the course of the day on a klinkhammer. Several more misses through the early evening. Just as I was considering calling it a day the middle section woke up and the klink worked. 2 caught in the next 20minutes as a nice mist rolled down onto the river. A thoroughly enjoyable afternoon and evening. 3 netted, several missed.

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Rain the whole day, not very warm but very wet. River in good condition but not a lot of activity. Been warm for the last few days and then a fair bit cooler, might have had an effect. Caught two WBT on nymph. One short rise in mid afternoon but nothing taken. Enjoyed the day.

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Hot, sunny, windless day. Water very clear, odd fish rising but otherwise no general rise to speak of, lovely location.
Like a previous angler I encountered a large mink (with an attitude) it looked at me and then walked past literally at my feet completely unconcerned. reminder not to leave any fish unattended.
Did observe a Lamprey from the bank digging mid river in the gravel

3 trout caught on dries within the first 10 minutes of arriving at the beat - nothing thereafter all day. Strange day - lots of fish rising between 11:00 and 13:00 with very little thereafter. I spent a good hour trying to catch one fish at the bottom of the beat that was rising in a single location every few minutes. I failed on about half a dozen times to connect despite the fish rising to my fly - I think my strike action needs a bit of work. Enjoyable day anyway.

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One 12” brown trout caught on nymph and a small 6” trout caught on a spider. Very little fishing fish until it picked up slightly at dusk, and those fish were uninterested in any dry flies I casted. Good to meet Jim from Carolina USA who was fishing this beat today.

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Second visit to this lovely stretch and were encouraged to see fish feeding on the surface from late morning and then frustrated not to contact any despite multiple nerve jangling swirls at dry flies.

Saw three mink during the course of the day including a couple that ran along the field edge so close to me I could have nearly got them with my wading stick! On the subject of pests also had a double canoe come through the stretch during the day!