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Dry fly and wet fly.

5 Trout

Fish were to be found around the beach/rapids area. We caught them both levering and trotting. Lots of small barbel which is really promising for the future.

25 Barbel, 3 Chub

1 Trout

Fly fished morning til 12pm. 1 chunky 3-4lb brown caught on a leech booby and some surface activity but it ended as soon as the sun came out.

1 Trout

The reservoir had hardly any water, never the less had a lovely day and did catch something.

3 Trout

Few hectic bits on today , so was nice to feed everything early , top up the hens water , and get going …. Initially where to was a decision I wasn’t sure on ….. wanted some where easy wading , no real effort and not toooooo far . So opted for my old favourite , Edw , Hundred House , again !!!!!

I did initially think of Hindwell at Knill , but dry fly sport isn’t fun there , and although if flows well and stays lovely and clear , I’m not sure what’s happened with the trout population there the last couple of years , it’s really dwindling ….. looking at the stream it should be bouncing with fish !!!!! Anyway , I parked up at half five in my usual spot , and opted for a tiny cdc and elk , as there were plenty of sedges raving just above the surface , and in fact loads of insect activity come half six , lots of dancing upwings and others at the party …..

Fishing was fun again , and brought to the net seven brownies in the two hour window I was there , sizes from six to nine inches , and also three parr . They always hammer the dry hard too !!!!! It seems like they have favoured pools too , and one after another smashing it …. I left the one pool , as I think I quickly released four salmon parr in rapid time ….. bodes well though I guess ……..

Saw my buddy the kingfisher , I looked at him as if to say I saw you yesterday , and he kind of did the same at me too … lots of grey squirrels , on the go , feeding heavily , well , it’s that time again isn’t it , everything starting to slowly wind down now for the cooler months ahead ….

A fun couple of hours , beats watching holiday rubbish on the box , a pleasant drive back home and nice to get out in the garden , with a cuppa and the pooch , and reflect on a fun couple of hours , always love these wild streams …. Peace and quiet on a bank holiday weekend , bliss !!!!!!!

7 Trout

Found the steps down from the railway tracks on the North side, but thereafter it was impossible to find a path in any direction

Lovely stretch of water fishing was hard due to low levels of water and not helped by our inability to move as it seems this is not just a fishery but a public beach with scores of people and there dogs swimming nearly into my swim making a lot of noise it was like heaven on Earth in the morning then descended into fishing hell from about 10am till at least 4.30pm a bit of a joke as we Piaf the high ticket price for peace and quiet not to go to Jerry carneys circus we were informed by the owner in morning that we should tell all these people to **** off her words if I had done this would have done so all day and would have been more stressful than putting up with all the racket all said and done will never return here in summer months hopefully people will read this and save themselves the same hassle we had bit of a joke

2 Barbel, 4 Chub

River very low and clear. Mixture of feeder/pellet tactics and trotting luncheon meat.

1 Barbel, 10 Chub

1 Barbel, 6 Chub