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Caught a 5 lb chub on a feeder.

1 Chub

1 Trout

1 Trout

2 Barbel, 5 Chub

Not a bite

3 Trout

Fished from 4pm to 9pm only had 3 chub couldn’t seem to get in to the barbel. River very low

3 Chub

2 Trout

Not a sausage. River very low.

A much more benign river that on my last visit a fortnight ago. Pleasant day weather-wise too. Determined to get to grips with French Nymphing, I had the 10 ft 3wt rod in the car but, with the bottom of the beat needing a longer cast, started off with a 4wt and a conventional upstream nymph. I caught Grayling, and good Grayling - with the exception of a couple of smaller fish, and a couple of larger fish, all of my fish today were in the 12-14" bracket - right from the off (so much so that the 3wt was to remain in the car). 3 or 4 fish from the bottom of the beat, followed by another half a dozen from the broken water at the top of the first meadow. Picked of a few skittish fish in The Gutter, before finding a shoal of fish in the broken water at the top of the bottom of the beat (if you get my drift). Probably should have stayed on this shoal but, after half a dozen fish, my stomach told me it was time for lunch

Up to the top of the beat in the afternoon. Less prolific that the morning; the top of the beat is more open and, as such, catches the wind - which I had not noticed in the morning. Very bright by then as well. Lower numbers maybe, but my afternoon catch included fish of 17" and 18" (which would be close on 2.5 lbs in old money). Bizarrely, other than one fish (a good one too), that took the nymph, jumped three feet into the air, and threw the nymph, in less time than it takes to tell the tale, I did not see a Trout all day

A very good day. Let's call it 20 shall we. Home to my lovely wife's delicious chicken in a cider, tarragon, mustard and cream sauce. Tres bonne

20 Grayling