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Another Springer today 19lb in the big McLean's weighnet. Arrived late 10.30 no sleep, 3rd cast beat 1 3" rubber shad, result! Fished 3 and 5 with fly big Springer showing on 3.

1 Salmon

Two hours on a lovely warm Friday afternoon was better spent on this little brook in the Forest than at work - very glad I bunked off. I've never fished these streams so early in the season but was encouraged by the warmth and reports of others. It was still a bit early for dries and almost everything came to a small PTN, but I was treated to a small trout leaping bodily out of the water to take a small olive dry about half-way down the beat.
Most of the runs in the narrower parts were full of fish and I must have had thirty or more pulls and brief struggles; while the wider (all relative, of course) sections seemed to be empty. Six trout made it into my hand, from 5-7" - I did see a couple of much nicer looking fish in the flat above the weir, but they were pretty quickly spooked.

6 Trout

3 Trout

14 Trout

Great day on this lovely beat. Some superb fish caught with both Grayling and Trout to 2lbs.
All fish were caught using a team of Czech nymphs on a Euro line.

10 Trout, 6 Grayling

River crystal clear and good level. Warm day with very little westerly breeze and sunny. LDO trickle hatch from 11:30 but fish did not rise to them. From 12 till 13:30 there was a fantastic hatch of MB and the trout were hammering them on the surface. Between the 2 of us we had 22, the smallest 3/4lb and the largest 2.5lb. Fantastic day’s fishing!

22 Trout

Weather unseasonably warm and river very low. Good hatches but very little showing. 1 Graying on nymph about 1lb.

1 Grayling

4 Trout