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Fished for an hour withfly. Will not be fishing tomorrow and Sunday as river too high for fly.

Little showing, little hatching. River rising, rain falling. Very cool 5 degree C air temp. Only interest of the day was watching an otter along the bottom section of the beat.

4 Trout

Arrived in torrential rain, on a windy, overcast day, and after a very muddy hike through the field to the water, it was quite a tough start. However, this is a terrific stretch of river, and by mid-morning rain was much lighter, and the wind dropped. Water is mixed, access is very good for the whole beat, and there is very little (on the left bank) to hinder casting. Fish were in great condition and all safely returned.

5 Trout

Tough day, River still very coloured in the morning and flowing like a set of rapids in places, hairy wading tested our balance through the morning.... flow and colour settled down a bit through the afternoon..
4 trout to team of spiders, one to a HEN.No rises seen at all although some uprights seen hatching. Nice to get back to the river for first outing of the year.

5 Trout

Very quiet,bump off a trout,beautiful day though

River pushing through still, got lucky as I was to catch two brownies from the head of two pools.

2 Trout

A first time reccie out for us on this beat and definitely one to visit more !
The water was pushing through a fair bit , which came as no surprise , but running clear and if nothing else it was just good to go and stand in a river at last . Been a long winter and lousy start to spring for sure . A cold downstream wind today
The river up here has a surprising number of fairly deep pots and good runs and is very sinous and looks as though it could be fabulous below the weir when it's all calmed down and greened up . Mind you you can see it will be a bit of jungle when it does but thats the wild streams for you of course . All great fun .
We saw some elvers just above the weir.
The riverbed was littered with cased Caddis which bodes well and we had 5 fish between the two of us, 8 to 11 inch and a touch lean perhaps but in good nick otherwise and very pleased with that all things considered . Beautiful Arrow fish as always . A small bedhead pheasant tail and Holy Grail accounted for the fish , nothing rising today or any reason to suggest they would . Next time ....and looking forward much to that !
By the way we got on to the river by dropping down in to the river at the lower car park and did the short funny walk under the bridge.

5 Trout

Although the river level was near perfect a cold wind made fishing quite difficult. There was little sign of fly life and no sign at all of any rising fish. One tout of a little under a pound was caught on a GRHE nymph and safely returned. MP & RJ.

1 Trout