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Very quiet despite seemingly favourable weather and water conditions. Found a few fish rising in quarry pool and managed to hook and land one of these on an olive cdc, after which it went dead quiet again. Took the other at the inflow on ptn.

2 Trout

All fish in great condition.
Caught bag limit

4 Trout

Difficult day with sporadic oncers. One decent 17" fish that wrapped me in some re-bar on the river bed twice. Still a fun day as always.

1 Trout

16lb cock fish for James Tustin this morning.

1 Salmon

A fish lost in the Rock Pool this morning. On briefly after taking a German Snelda but didn’t stick
Grrrrrrr.

Spent a few hours here today, another beautiful location. Fished down from the footbridge this morning, and up in the afternoon but the fish were not playing.

The river is blocked by tree debris downstream from the bridge.

Note to WUF admin - please can you amend the directions to note that parking should be directly under the yew tree - the very nice lady who rents the cottage says to park on the grass triangle as close to the tree trunk as possible so her access is completely clear.

4 Trout

1 Trout

Two Brown trout taken on pheasant tail hot spot nymph in the faster glides. River conditions were lovely.

2 Trout

First time at Ashford House for some time and, although it’s still early spring, it looks like access to the river has been improved a little. The landowner needs congratulating as the first meadow is looking lovely being full of wild flowers, hopefully this is deliberate and will continue to improve.
Very few fish seen, the first rose during a brief hatch of March Browns and took my fly first time but I missed it. The second was spotted on a shallow glide rising intermittently and took a dry after a bit of stealthy positioning and casting. The resulting fish put up a good fight and was a good size but unfortunately was in terrible condition with sores to one side and a damaged dorsal fin.
Headed home not long after catching as despite being mostly warm and sunny a brisk downstream wind was making presentation difficult.

1 Trout