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Great to be back out on the water again, but not much luck with the grayling.

1 Trout

Hard going today

3 Grayling

Best of 3 barbel 12lbs 3oz; best Chub 6lbs

26 x grayling 9-17 inches, 7 x out of season trout 10-14 inches. The river still high but reasonably clear so possible now to trot through those slacks and eddies which are not too turbulent. A full 11 degrees this afternoon. But the day ended in disaster, when I somehow left the top section of my beautiful Greys Bewick trotting rod across the bonnet of the car without putting it away in the bag. I drove away unknowing and of course it came off in the road - I screeched to a halt with the hazard lights on just in time to watch two trucks drive over it! Idiot! I wonder if Greys have a section?

26 Grayling, 7 Trout

My angling partner and I dead bait fished around 8 swims each on beats 1, 2 and 5 and only managed one run between us for the day, the river was running off and slightly coloured perfect conditions for a days pike fishing that said there was very little fish movement throughout the day we only noticed 6 fish break surface two of which being salmon/sea trout. The pike we caught was very thin for this time of year but with the river being in flood so much this season it was expected.

1 Pike

3 fished 2 blanked, 1 barbel lost in overhanging bush and 1 chub caught. River was dropping and looked promising but Hey Ho that's winter fishing.

1 Chub

River looked OK but only 1 Chub caught & 1 Barbel lost.

1 Chub

Tried again today, river was lower although clarity was about the same as yesterday. Managed two Grayling one at about
7oz the other maybe 12oz. Young fish, but good to see they are there again. Both fell to big pink nymphs and fished on a
nymphing line with coloured bite indicator markings.

2 Grayling

3 Grayling

1 Barbel, 8 Chub, 3 Pike