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A very quiet evening

1 Chub

What looked like a promising day turned into one where, apparently, fish were strangely quiet. GR enjoyed his first day fly fishing and had sufficient taps to tell him fish were present and he was presenting his weighted nymph properly. He also briefly hooked what looked like a decent fish. Otherwise JD’s small grayling and even smaller trout was all we could muster.

1 Trout, 1 Grayling

Everyone caught fish afternoon & evening.Had peregrine falcon fly directly over us & then stoop on some poor bird the far side of the field. Kingfishers kept us entertained. River still up a little bit but very clear. Pellet & spam did the trick again. All barbel pretty much the same size bracket of 5-7lbsish. Do they shoal up by age group? Why don't the smaller & bigger fish take during a session? Need to find out more about the natural history of the barbel; Any good references WUF?

Had a pleasant chat with the Himalayan balsam squad going about their job. Whatever you say about the balsam if you spend a few minutes next to a patch the insect life they attract is quite spectacular..particularly the white bodies bees & hover flies (and personally I think the balsam looks & smells pleasant ). I know it's an invasive species , but isn't everything if you go back far enough...even us!

Wonderful day again ; What more could a man want? Thanks to all concerned that make these magic days possible.

8 Barbel, 10 Chub

As above.

8 Barbel, 10 Chub

18 Barbel, 4 Chub

4 Trout

Hard days fishing, both of us had gook ups on rainbow trout but fish came off. We were fishing quite far up the reservoir, tower side about two thirds of the way up. Very little fish rising, I only saw three or four fish rise all day. Tried several different methods, the only thing that worked was a black snake booby. But couldn't land anything apart from one perch!

1 Other

7 Barbel

Lovely water

3 Chub

8 small trout caught in the fast water another windy day

8 Trout