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A lovely day fishing the dry fly. I must try and contain my excitement whenever a trout rises to my fly. A lot more fish would have come to the net. Various olives hatching on and off most of the afternoon. Despite best efforts only landed 2. Thankyou to the owners for their kind gesture of goodwill on the day and allowing fishing on this scenic stretch of river.

2 Trout

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1 Trout

It fished really well - 12 brown trout all on dry flies. Some scattered mayfly hatches at various times, including a lot of yellow mayfly but strangely those were ignored - mostly caught on smaller size 16 ad 18s of three classic patterns: Lunn's Particular, Grey Duster and a Greenwell's Glory variant. However for much of the day most of the fish weren't on the mayflies - there were large numbers of tiny black flies, probably reed smuts and they were hitting those hard. Caught four of them on a size 20 Black Gnat at those times, fished on a very long and fine leader. Downside of that was that I lost one bigger fish on the take, probably had a wind knot in the line as it was quite windy and they often needed long casts with trees around - checked the tippet occasionally but obviously not often enough! Still a great day's fishing and they were a good stamp of fish - all between 9 and 14" and in great condition, two thirds of them in the 12-14" range. Thanks for a lovely day out - great fishing on a beautiful stretch of river.

12 Trout

A tough day fishing with heavy rain and wind at times and water colouring up and then clearing several times. 2 beautiful brownies to show for the day though.

2 Trout

No salmon seen. 1 small trout, returned.

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