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Fished an evening ticket.
Which given the current low and clear conditions seemed like the best use of the day.
“On it’s bones” is probably a pretty fair description.
Had a few small trout, saw a couple of good risers but didn’t rise to the fly.
The larger fish seemed to be cruising around the pools occasionally taking spinners, and I wasn’t really feeling like playing the lottery waiting game.
A patient fisherman might do well.
A picturesque beat, but would certainly benefit from 6 inches of water on it.
Rain appears to be on the distant horizon so fingers crossed

3 Trout

Beautiful beat but difficult fishing. Huge hatch of flies around 2pm but no evidence of any interested fish and river seemed devoid of life until late afternoon when finally saw 2 fish rising on walk back to car. Managed to catch both, one about a pound and the other about a pound and a half.

2 Trout

The morning spent nymphing in various spots with no joy. Warmed up at lunchtime and plenty of fly life but no rises.
Changed to a speculative dry and landed a gorgeous feisty 17” grayling. What a start to the season on the most serene and varied of beats.

1 Grayling

Nice height (40cm) and milder that recent days. A lovely, diverse and very long beat. Missed a few chances, including a frustating loss when the dropper caught on a lump of wood whilst playing a big grayling. I saw the fish shake out the barbless hook before I had to break off which was a relief. Only one fish brought to hand, a lovely fish that was around the 2lb mark by Guy. All the activity was from 12-2 as a hatch of chironomids developed (a fish even rose!) Either side of that you wouldn't believe there was a fish in the river.

All the action was in the steadier 3-5ft deep bits with klink and dink; czech nymphing the holes and faster water produced nothing.

1 Grayling

1 Trout

Water low and clear sky to start. Most activity I’ve seen on this beat mainly by the Cledan and the cliffs. Numerous rises and knocks on dries but failed to connect. An evil downstream wind turned the air blue around lunchtime and failed to disappear for a few hours despite a power nap. Such a peaceful beat.

Nothing doing- water was low, very bright. Beautiful day out though.

Very low and extremely clear. Nice looking water, but no signs of life.

A really, really, beautiful stretch of river - some of the prettiest river I've seen on the WUF Passport, and maybe it's a good trout beat in the summer.
Two of us, both competent grayling anglers, fished hard from 11-3 today and didn't have so much as a tap, we didn't see a single fish. A quick look back through recent catch reports during grayling season suggests a low stock of fish.
Gorgeous water, I not sure I'd go back again though.

Blank for me today, I'm afraid. Lyn Davies fishing the other rod had two nice grayling. Incidentally, the allocated car parking here is a morass of mud at the moment.