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Great day, expertly guided by Oliver Burch, always fun. Weather fine, a little cool at lunchtime. Wet flies, red tag and treacle parkin both very effective. Very little surface activity, did try a Grayling Steel blue dry after lunch but no interest. River a little coloured, as expected given the recent rain, running quite high but plenty of easy access on this beat. One nice grayling to 14 inches, lost 3. 5 OoS trout.

5 Trout, 2 Grayling

3 Trout

River had decent flow, trout caught on partridge and orange spider on swing and grayling on flash PTN on French leader. One missed take

1 Trout, 1 Grayling

3 Trout, 3 Grayling

A dozen trout and 3 all grayling. All on various small nymphs. A few pale wateries and the odd stonefly. Didn't see a fish rise all day......

12 Trout, 3 Grayling

Have never fished here when the water is quite so low, with just 5" on the WUF gauge. Quite a lot of gravel has moved since last here as well. Water 15 degrees. The intermittent blustery downstream wind didn't help today, and the almost total absence of any insects made for hardly any rising fish. Had two trout on bugs and "caught" many more cased caddis! The rest of the fish came to Grayling Steel Blue, and size 18 HE emerger and HE and olive Duck's Duns. All bar three were non-risers, so at least some fish were looking up. Trout from 9 - 12" and the ladies 10- 13". A hard day for sure but not too bad given the conditions.

6 Trout, 8 Grayling

All caught on perdigon nymphs.

2 Trout, 3 Grayling

No luck yet !

Very low and bright. Couple of rises. Nothing caught.

Water coloured - little rising