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Again no joy. No salmon seen or touched.
Water maybe a bit low but by no means bare bones and maybe still to early in the season. Starting to lose faith in this beat, looks like lovely water. But even when fish are being taken on nearby beats I've not had any luck here. Probably need to persevere. But every time a spend a day here I finish thinking I probably would have been better going somewhere else.

A wonderful stretch of river with easy access for wading.

2 Trout

Lovely day on superb stretch of water. Arrived at 11am. 3 wbt caught in first half hour then they went off the boil!

3 Trout, 2 Grayling

The river started quite cloudy with silt and didn't get much better during the day but I did have a few pulls - that might have been brownies - and a beautifully spotted 15 inch brown trout that I returned.

1 Trout

Early start due to forecast rain for later. Great beat. At least 7 fish rising just in top pool by lodge. Tricky wading in parts. One 5 inch wbt caught & safely released, One 11 inch wbt kept. Both on nymphs. (If only I could reliably fish the dry...) Torrential rain by 2pm saw us rained off not long after.

2 Trout

A beautiful day, warm and bright. No great hatch but some flies drifting off throughout the day. Fished from 11 to 5 when I had to leave: I guess the evening would have been tremendous had I been able to stay. No sign of trout during the day, not a rise in sight, but the grayling were in evidence. Four caught on a parachute Adams, one nice one at 14 inches and three more around 12 ins. This is a lovely beat with accessible wadeable stretches for the no longer young.

4 Grayling

A beautiful day with plenty of sun and light winds. Water was clear and low with wading fairly straightforward for the most part.
Fished from 11am - 7pm. A reasonable trickle of fly life carried on all day but perhaps it was too bright for most of the trout? Grayling were certainly active and sipping on the surface. We had eight between us, the smallest at 6 inches (on a size 12 sedge) and the largest at 15 inches (on a size 20 cdc olive). This was the first time either of us had seen grayling so, unused to the rather delicate takes, we missed at least another dozen. No success on the nymph until we tried it New Zealand stlye, then we saw the takes. Didn't feel a single one, but certainly saw the dry fly dunked.
One lovely 8 inch wbt was caught around 2pm on a cdc olive dun in the margins.
Surface activity died off around 5.30pm but the water seemed to come alive with rises just after 7pm as soon as I'd removed my waders...
All fish caught on cdc olives, cdc sedge, cillabaetis comparadun, soft hackle PTN with and without beadhead, fished upstream.
A lovely day.

1 Trout, 8 Grayling

Abundance of fly life on glorious day. Good hatches of olives late morning produced rising fish all day - most taken on CDC emergers on bottom beat. Mainly juvenile WBT but splattering of grayling as well (prize catch near 2 pounds).

10 Trout, 6 Grayling

River low and clear with bright sunshine, only the occasional rising fish. Had a couple of other fish drop off. Also had a number of parr. All fish returned.

6 Trout, 1 Grayling

2 Trout, 2 Grayling