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Caught on a spinner, reservoir was a beautiful spot to fish

1 Trout

Blustery day. Very sparoxic hatches. When hatch on a fish rose here and there. Water dead by 15.30.

9 Trout, 1 Grayling

River dropping after a wee bit of rain, didn't do the fishing any good, nothing caught or seen

Nice height of water and good colour, fished fly first and caught the first shad of the season, down to the rectory pool and nothing, back to spin the Mill pool and bang into a shad about 2lb , no salmon though

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First time on this lovely beat.
In it's short space (400 yds) it had every feature on which to show a 'newbie' how to river fish - long slow glide, fast riffle, deep pool, shallows etc.. and was therefore a perfect choice.Easy and safe wading too, though all of the water can be accessd without getting your feet wet!
Plenty of bird life to observe - Buzzards, Swans etc.. no Kingfisher today though ...and no insect activity or fish rising during our half day 10am - 2pm. Tried nymphing and wets to no avail. Back tomorrow , without the student, hopefully for some fish.

See today's other return.

Managed around 2/3rds of the beat today, starting from the bottom, where most of the decent pools seem to be located. Fished klink-n-dink as nothing rising despite decent hatches of olives and mayfly. Once above the footbridge, the middle section is quite hard work in stronger flow, and it wasn't until I reached the Rising Sun camping area that some more likely pools were evident. There are a couple of easy exit points about half way up the next field, and that was enough for me. Five fish around 10" and one at 14", all taking the nymph.

6 Trout