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First time ever fly fishing, beautiful stretch of river, beautiful weather. Loads of small fry, only a few decent size trout seen topping, none caught but had a few small chubb on the fly. Absolutely loved the wading as used to bank and boat fishing.

3 Chub

No fish caught. River very low. Saw 3 fish. One was very big. Will return when we have had some rain.

Lovely day. Hooked a decent fish but broke off on a small dry with badger hackle. Saw a number of larger fish in the central section. Lots of swans around which needed to be negotiated around. at least 5 cygnets at present, possibly 6.
A reasonable number of trout rising at various times. Weather got very bright and sunny around 2pm and couldn't stay till later for the evening, so left around 2:30pm. lovely place.

Fishing on old Clytha today. Started at 8 in the morning till 12.,nice whether and fish is rising. Hooked one trout but lost it while landing. Nice beat whit plenty of fish and stunning wildlife. Looks like heatrow airport whit all the kingfisher flying around. When its possible i’ll go fish here again.

River seemed much lower than on previous visit, but with plenty of fish still rising

A chilly day with occasionally a stiff, cool breeze, despite the sunshine. A short but lovely and varied beat. A consistent hatch especially of yellow mayflies, but the fish didn't seem to be that interested in the duns and most of the sporadic rises looked to be to emergers and the occasional mayfly spinner. Fish were taken to a mayfly spinner and downstream nymph, with a good number of additional takes on the surface missed. This is definitely a beat to fish again.

3 Trout

Saw several fish rise, but sadly no bites. River looked on good condition, with several fly hatches throughout the day.

Nothing doing - just some dimpling rises. Fell in - but (this) phone still seems to be working...

First outing of the season, plenty of flies hatching and few fish rising though difficult to tempt. First trout of season caught on a beadhead hares ear nymph and was 16" so well pleased with that, missed a rise to a Jingler. Nice beat.

1 Trout

Our first day out this season. A fantastic days fishing on the old Clytha beat. Euro nymphing, dry fly, and spider tactics were used. Lost the first fish of the day which was an absolute cracker. Really gutted! The second fish was caught on a small olive dry fly and expected to be around a pound in weight. Lunchtime seemed the best time to fish. A few rises and a decent hatch of MBs. We had around 4 misses too. For a small beat it was fairly productive. I think there will be a decent lunch/evening dry fly session to come from this beat and I will be returning when the weather improves (it was very cold). Overall the river fished well for this time of year.

1 Trout