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1 rainbow on floated worm, East Bank, taken. 1st ever fish for 7 year old son ????

1 Trout

1 Trout

Res, is very high, intention too fly fish it but too windy. Had our 4 each on a worm along with a couple of perch, all in bay below the tower. As we were leaving a number of youths passed us heading for the fly only bank, all possessing spinning rods.

8 Trout

Early start. River steady at 0.8m with nice colour. No sign of trout or salmon showing all day. Had a firm take and run from a salmon on Upper Rock at 10.30 a.m.. Probably came off as it ran towards me. Not a great advert for the crushed down barbs on the Feeler Cascade double. A very early catch and release and third in a row this season! Still great to be out on this beautiful beat and nice to enjoy some action.

2 Trout

Caught 2 rainbow and 1 brown trout, returned the brown trout.

3 Trout

Was so disappointing the first day we did not return. It is not rural fishing, nor idyllic.

Beautiful wild and secluded beat. Water crystal clear. Series of shallow pools, runs and riffles, including some spectacular low waterfalls. Wading is extremely difficult because the stones, boulders and rocks are as slippy as ice - no exaggeration. I wore rubber soles and could only stand very precariously, I went down numerous times on to knees and wrists, and it would be easy to get a full soaking (or worse)or damage rod/reel. I started fishing at 1000, which was too early given the conditions on the day, the river only really came to life in the afternoon. Until fish started rising I concentrated on running nymphs through riffles at the heads of pools, and hooked two fish on a heavily weighted pink tag, but the hook pulled out on both. From about 1800 fish, some of them big, were rising consistently in most pools, but they spooked very easily in the shallow, clear pools and I could not get them interested in the large variety of dries and emergers that I tried. I think I was probably lining fish, even with a 12 ft leader, I might have been better with something lighter than a 5 wt rod - but there are some good fish there. With hindsight I should have focused on tiny dries later on in the day, and ultra stealth. No fish landed, which seems crazy, but I am happy.

Unfortunately there was a camping party on the other side of the river towards the downstream end of the beat. They were fooling around in the river and making a lot of noise.
I gave up after an hour.

1 caught

1 Trout