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Arrived mid afternoon and fished for 3 hours. On and off drizzle during fishing. Caught 6 trout and a very small grayling. Some active risers, others by prospecting. Trout were all between 5 to 8 inches. All caught on dry flies. Sz18 para Adams and black klinkhammers.

6 Trout, 1 Grayling

Arrived for a session after work at 5pm. Sadly my time on the beat was cut short by heavy rain and only fished for about an hour. Caught 2 fish, both around 7 inches, just downstream from the road bridge at the top of the beat. 1 very active wild brown trout and a lovely grayling. Both caught on a sz16 tan klinkhammer.

1 Trout, 1 Grayling

Arrived at 2pm and met another wild stream fisherman who arrived at the same time. Both happy to share the beat and a few fish rising which turned out to be grayling. Lovely few hours fishing the river.

2 Grayling

As before on this beat I found consistently rising fish in just one pool, one of which succumbed to my mayfly. Otherwise a quiet (and perhaps too bright) afternoon until something large, agricultural and rather brutal arrived late in the day and set to clearing a strip along the banks. Stayed until sundown in the hope of more surface activity. There was a fall of small spinners and the occasional spent mayfly drifting past, but the temperature dropped and the trout stayed out of sight, except for a large one that nearly swam into my legs not far below the bridge.

1 Trout

A couple of hours in the afternoon with hatching olives and mayfly and rising trout in one pool that ignored everything I threw at them, probably fixated on olive emergers.

Great little beat, perfect for a quick session in the evening. Caught 1 very small trout parr on a pheasant tail nymph. Caught a rising 5" trout on an olive dun dry fly and a rising 5" out of season Grayling on a size18 black spider dry fly. Good amount of fly life.

2 Trout, 1 Grayling

Lovely looking stretch, good access to river and easy wading , plenty of hatching going on but no fish seen

River a good height and running clear. No fly life seen. Fished nymphs at various depths and spiders but no takers.
Will have to try again once the water warms up a wee bit…

2 Grayling