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The River was up and coloured. It looked ideal but I couldn't track down the grayling. Fished the float and small feeder and ended up with 6 small brownies.

6 Trout

River dropped below 1.3m on Buith gauge and very clear . Late afternoon session and soon found the fish , feeding dead maggots and trotting a single fake red maggot . Finished with 13 grayling including a few in the 1.5lb bracket , but as is often the case lost one at the net which was a good 2lbs . Fair few cormorants and gosander about and a couple of grayling appeared to have had close encounters with these predators.

7 Trout, 13 Grayling

Fish caught trotting.

6 Trout, 10 Grayling

chub very obliging, caught from the off opposite the concrete wall.all fish came to meat feeder tactics,bonus barbel about 6 lb came later in the day.river low and clear.

1 Barbel, 11 Chub

Black & purple tungsten bead nymph & killer bugs Otter playing around in pool opposite fishery entrance

2 Trout, 2 Grayling

River was slightly on the rise with colour. An enjoyable day and nice of the beat owner to come and say hello, but unfortunately a NIL return. I'll be back though.

Lovely stretch of water, looks like it should be full of grayling and trout. River in great nick. Fished hard all day, walked the entire stretch and fed 6 pints of maggots without a bite. Then from 3pm i hooked all the fish and lost quite a few more, it was like someone flicked a switch. Kites and buzzards everywhere, Dippers and a pair of otters working upstream. The only down side were the 23 (intotal) cormorants working over 3 areas in the bottom 200yds of the stretch alone at 7.45am. One even popped up with a 1lb8oz grayling in its mouth which it wouldnt drop despite we catipulting pebbles at it!! There were more upstream aswell. Im used to these numbers on the wye but Im not sure a small river like this can deal with this amount of birds. Every fish i had was over a pound, 5 of the trout and and the grayling all showed signs of cormorant damage. A massive concern... the poor small grayling, trout and salmon? have no chance without these ruthless predators. Aside from this it was a fantastic day.

10 Trout, 1 Grayling

Brief feeding spell early afternoon led to 3 barbel caught on flavoured meat. Small chub at end of day .

3 Barbel, 1 Chub

Slow fishing but good result for the winter. Chub and barbel to feeder tactics.
Jack pike on sea dead baits close in.

1 Barbel, 1 Chub, 2 Pike

With the river now looking fishable after what has been almost biblical conditions for 6 weeks it was just a pleasure to be out on the banks, spent the day roving the beat with breadflake or meat as hookbait, 2 bite's and one chub, far from the best days winter chubbing but a real joy to get out again.

1 Chub