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Very hot but decided to pop down for a couple of hours in the afternoon. Not much moving and river very low and stale.
Drifted a small nymph through the faster (relative), deeper (relative) pools.
But a "red letter day" as I did catch my first every salmon - all be it a parr with delusions of grandure taking a 14 grhe (had gone up about 3 sizes to avoid the parr that were snatching at every cast).
Also a trout parr which took nymph as it was just touching water as I applied floatant to the klink - and having now caught both it is very easy to distinguish between the two species.
Were kingfishers aplenty which confirmed high level of fry and parr. Just no sign of anything above 4" - where do they all go when the water is so low?
Tributaries now desperate for water. Also had a look at the Lugg at Lyepole on way home and that was as low as I have ever seen it.

2 Other

Poor evening. The main problem is access to the river because of the bank side vegetation. This makes getting into the river and more importantly getting out of the river very tricky. Perhaps some access points could be made next winter?

Fished for a couple of hours until dusk. Plenty of fly life but hardly a fish rising. Tried tiny nymphs and a variety of dry flies to no avail.
Finally had one splashly rise to an iron blue dun in the gloom about 10pm, but that did not hold.
Gave up when too dark to tie on an even smaller offering.
Have fished a few of the Arrow beats this season and despite good fly life there has been very few fish showing.
I am definitely way down on catches to previous seasons - fish stocks do seem to be down.

Quiet, still evening. Not much surface action. One 8" WBT to a dry grey CDC.

1 Trout

Struggled tonight, didn't see so many big fish, but did catch 1 @ 10 ins. CAN SOMEONE DO A RAIN DANCE!

4 Trout

Evening. Little rising but one chubby 11 inch trout at 14oz persuaded to take a dry mayfly. Taken.

1 Trout

Very bright warm day with plenty of fly activity, including Mayfly but nil fish seen or caught.

Lovely warm bright day with plenty of fly life including regular Mayfly so was very deflated to blank. My day was truncated due to work commitments and with only a couple of hours I think I might have rushed things a bit searching likely spots with my usually trusty Grey Wulff and resorting to nymphs occasionally. Looking under a few stones revealed swarms of stone clingers which might have explained where the fish were (only saw one rise) though I expect it was just one of those middle of the day spells when the river had gone to sleep. Otherwise parking was very convenient, access to the water was easy and thankfully there was only the odd bit of farming plastic to spoil the view.

A beautiful warm day with a reasonable amount of cloud cover at times. Insect life was much more abundant than last week, with more Mayfly hatching than before, but still not a great quantity, plenty of Olives. The river was fairly cold and coloured and the amount of rising fish limited, maybe saw 6 rising fish all day. Managed to catch a couple of 12 inch fish on a size 14 Wulff, great fighters for their size.

2 Trout

A difficult day with very cold water and bright sun, there were a couple of hatches during the day with a reasonable amount of olives and sedges,very few mayfly. There was little in the way of rising fish.
The river has been quite scoured by flooding since last year and I found that previously wadeable areas were a bit too risky.
Fished with an F fly to catch the fish caught, tried a GRHE nymph but to no avail, will be back next week, hopefully to find the trout are feeding well.

2 Trout