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Fished the woodland beats for an evening. Access ok but limited, difficult casting with tree canopy so close. 2 eels sum of the efforts. Kingfisher flying past and salmon jumping being the highlights....

2 Other

Hard day

1 Trout, 1 Chub

A quiet start at the bottom end of the beat with a few fish rising, some takes, but nothing caught. Three fish caught early pm at the start of the flats just over half way up the beat, then nothing for a couple of hours. The remainder caught late afternoon, again in the flats. All fish caught on emergers.
Only the first 30 meteres or so of the flats are fishable, the remainder being inaccessible due to excessive undergrowth. In short, only just over half of the beat can be fished.

10 Grayling

River in reasonable order. Caught the fish on a GRQ, Black Pennell and Greenwell's Glory and dry sedges towards the end of the evening.

3 Trout, 4 Grayling

1 eel and a few nice chub

8 Chub, 1 Other

2 trout caught on float and worm.

2 Trout

1 Trout

1 Trout, 2 Grayling, 1 Chub

Great day out. We enjoyed it thoroughly thank you Darlington Angling Club for giving us the opportunity to visit. We will be back.

4 Trout, 3 Grayling

River pretty low at about 1m on a generally calm, cloudy, not too windy day until rained off, with some fish still rising at 4.45p.m. Nothing on bugs, a couple on spiders, but virtually all fish taken, risers and non-risers, on a size 16 and 18 pale HE Duck's Dun. Catch returns from a number of outings over recent months indicates a major year class of 9-10" grayling, the first of this significance for some years and doubtless good spawning news from a few years back. Let's hope that the cormorants (three seen yesterday) leave enough to grow on again. Had several 12-13" ladies too, as well as a lovely 17" two pounder. Some stonefly in the morning and some sedges later on plus a few small olives, which is what I suspect the fish were taking in the afternoon.

3 Trout, 14 Grayling