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My first fly fishing on river. No fish landed, but great experience. Extraordinary scenery and clean water today. Fishes start be active on surface only for 1 hour around 12:30. Tried everything: 2 nymphs / 1 dry + 1 nymph / ugly bugger on pulling…back soon.

River was at a nice level for fishing and there were signs of fly for most of the day but the sun stayed out for the majority of the time which slowed activity. A bit of cloud early afternoon gave me a chance to get a few on dries and a bonus couple of fish on streamers in my last pool of the day .

7 Trout

2 Trout

4 Perch, 2 Brownies and 1 Rainbow, all on worm. Pity about the group of paddle boarders making a racket.

3 Trout, 4 Other

Garnons 26lb very fresh salmon for Ricky Reno on a red f/c at 5.30pm today. Lovely plump fish.

1 Salmon

Hatches of LDO and MB between 12-2, short and frantic feeding spells. Half a dozen rises on a hatching olive dry and two fish landed, frustratingly the biggest ones came off! Pretty quiet in the afternoon, a few pulls on nymphs but nothing else.

2 Trout

River level within normal range and falling. A cold start to the day after an overnight frost. Little surface activity seen until a small hatch around midday. One of the trout was a healthy 16", caught on a generic sedge cdc emerger pattern (barbless), and returned. The other fish were between 6" and 8". A beautiful beat at this time of year - bluebells, primroses, wood anemone, and lots of cuckooflower which I ate happily with my cheese roll! And I saw a sandpiper flying low upriver. A lovely day (1000hrs to 1630hrs).

4 Trout, 2 Grayling

3 x trout to 12 inches, dries, Grunter and Williams Favourite. A brief rise to March browns and large dark olives early afternoon in fast water.

3 Trout

Dry duo method. 3 fish on hares ear nymph two on parachute Adams.

2 Trout, 3 Grayling