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Broke one nice fish off on a wet fly. A good amount of late morning surface activity but no obvious hatch at least to my eyes. I could not get a rise to a dry fly of any kind. A bit breezy and cool.

Trout: No 14 Hare’s ear wet, WF6F line with sinking leader. Grayling: No14 beaded pink shrimp nymph, same rig

3 Trout, 1 Grayling

Firstly many thanks to Mick the gillie who availed his services for the morning and was immensely helpful in showing me the main pools and lies and much sound advice, I highly recommend any rods contact him especially if fishing the beat for the first time.

Some stunning fly water in a delightful setting spoiled only by the armadas of canoes which I didn’t expect midweek and not at 6:30am !

Fished through all main pools with fly and then spinner but no fish seen or contacted other than a brace of chub which caused fleeting excitement

Water was steady at about 0.6 on the Ross gauge - Mick advised fishes better with warmer , lower water (0.5 and below)so will return when such conditions prevail !

2 Chub

No salmon today

3 Trout

2 Trout

1 Trout

A good place to start would be at right at the main river bridge, but we found more fish rising from the upper end of the beat. After you cross the small metal pedestrian bridge at the end of the first field on the right bank, there are some deeper holes here with large fish crashing though sadly none were caught this time. Slightly further upstream there are good shallow runs with trout activity.

The only action was from about 12.30 to 2.30, when I caught two modest fish, and lost two, on spiders and nymph. (A warning to spider anglers, which I should have heeded myself, is that a fish on one of the droppers, if not netted, can wriggle strongly and cause another of the droppers to become embedded in one's finger. Fortunately it came out after a bit of work...) Just a few yellow mays(?) hatching, little rising except once to my Klinkhamer, where I struck too soon after programming myself to strike fast for the nymph trailing beneath on the duo. Bad fishing, as I told myself.

2 Trout

6 Trout

2 Trout