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Windy day made it hard for the fly.
Not very good for fly fishing with the trees so close to the water. Could only fish the shallow end and wade out a few meters.
Zero fish, non rising or showing

Didn’t fish
Looked like a wash off on the webcam.

Fished the morning until lunchtime. 9 chub to a respectable weight. 1 barbel for my mate.

1 Barbel, 9 Chub

Very weedy and very busy with river traffic being Sunday. The only place to get some consistent fishing was the far channel on the island swim. Two small chublets on the float. Will be back though

2 Chub

The river, as we all know is incredibly low but after walking this stretch we found some nice, fast moving swims around three feet deep which looked very fishy. Unfortunately the weed is really bad and every cast returned with green weed all over the bait. Once the sun got a bit higher I walked the full stretch with my Polaroids on and never saw one fish even though I could see the bottom pretty much all the way across. Gave it until around 10.30am and gave up. Pretty place but no fish Unfortunately.

3 Grayling caught on nymphs, all from below the bridge. Biggest about 14". Rose a few trout, but did not land any.
Very blustery wind, which stopped any hatches.

3 Grayling

The beat is VAST! There was a lot of algae making things quite slippery underfoot. River is in pretty good condition and gin clear in the shallower sections. Access to the river itself is generally ok although caution should be taken as sone of the banks are slightly steep but easily doable if done slowly.
Saw three pretty decent sized fish when I first arrived but sadly everything I offered wasn’t even sniffed at! The insect life wasn’t as abundant as I expected and very little rising. I left just after 7pm.

Three of us fished for the day. When we found the fish, they were obliging. Lovely to see the small barbel coming through. Biggest chub was around 3lb.

4 Barbel, 52 Chub

Fished in the morning only and roamed the whole stretch trying to find the fish. Challenging conditions but a lovely beat.

2 Chub

Very very low and clear it desperately needs a lot of rain.

5 Chub