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3 Grayling

Trotting this afternoon. Blank for grayling - couldn't find them - 1 x 15 inch out of season trout.

Arrived at 09:30 just as the sun was breaking through following a cold start. Disaster struck as I broke the tip of my new 10ft float rod I had bought specially for this beat while tackling up, fortunately had my 12ft rod with me. Trotted maggot taking 5 good grayling between 10 and 14 inches. Fish appeared to be spread out and not shoaled up. As I contemplated packing up at 16:00 a barn owl fly directly over head.

5 Grayling

9 Grayling

Lovely day but nothing moving and no hatch. Tried every method known to man but nothing, must be losing my touch! Still,lovely to be out on such beautiful river.

Apologies for this return being late, I thought it was done.

I only had time to fish upstream of the bridge and this was a very cold day. It took a while to find any grayling, my first 4 fish were OOS trout. Eventually I tried fishing light weight nymphs upstream and managed 6 grayling before the cold got to me and I had to warm up in the car. A great location.

4 Trout, 6 Grayling

another tough day,river low and clear very cold rain for the first 2 hour's.both fish came from the top of the beat both fell to feeder tactics[hemp and caster].

2 Chub

Tough day with the cold weather and the pace of the water. Spent most of the day on the float and picked off a few (lost more than I care to remember), and moved across to the feeder for the afternoon/evening. Brief feeding spell around 5pm meant we had a few bites in quick succession.

Best Chub 3lb 9oz, and another similar. Rest around a pound or so. One trout of maybe 3lb (fantastic looking fish) but rest about a pound.

7 Trout, 9 Chub

Very cold and rainy with the river low and crystal clear. Managed to take a beautiful grayling on the pink shrimp, but my technique was pretty poor all day to be honest. Better anglers than me would have had a cracking day I think, fish shoaled up and more difficult to find, perhaps spooky with the clear water too.

1 Grayling

Despite the cold and occasional flurries of snow and sleet, the Lyepole grayling were very obliging today. The fish seemed to be spread out and covering the water paid dividends. Nothing huge today with the biggest around the pound mark.
Most were caught on nymph and heavy bug but a hatch of what looked like LDOs started a small rise at about midday and a few came to a dry. Another surprise was a large salmon parr, around 7".
A great day in what is always a beautiful valley, whatever the time of year. The hot soup at lunchtime was a lifesaver!

5 Trout, 15 Grayling, 1 Other