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Spent the day dry fly fishing for trout, unfortunately nothing caught. Saw very few rises and there wasn't much insect activity. Still had a lovely day next to the river.

Arrived for an afternoon and evening session but sudden and rapid rise of over 2' put paid to any fishing effort!

We fished from 6am till 6.30pm with feeders and pellets it was tough, one barbel only was caught the river was quite muddy and fast.

1 Barbel

Good morning, two nice trout.

2 Trout

2 Trout

Water level at Ross was approx 0.4m. Fished feeder and pellets / meat. We fished upstream of the car park, we enjoyed the day but were disappointed with lack of swims downstream. Also don't appreciate the one rod only rule, it makes no sense to me, rod licence allows 2!!!!

5 Barbel, 10 Chub

Very skinny water with little flow. started from road bridge and finished at sewage plant, so fished roughly half of beat.fished the first couple of pools size 18 midge with no success so switched to size 22 nymph with 1.5mm gold bead and was instantly into fish. First cast one of twelve inches and second cast one of 4 inches lol. It was then a case of crawling on knees to get into position casting into any fast water. I picked up a further nine between 6-12 inches before stopping. There were a fair few trout in sight but sadly the slightest wake in the slow water scattered them instantly.

11 Trout

One of our favourite beats. Plenty of swims to choose so we did a bit of roving around. We caught barbel from five different swims with four of them coming from where we spotted a few barbel turning out past the middle of the river.
Nice to catch some on the centrepin too today with a bit of Wallis casting which needs a little work on yet. Good fun though. Today's wildlife included more than enough swans, kingfisher busy in the margins, tawny owls out and about early evening.

8 Barbel, 1 Chub

Fished the beat this morning til 9am seen several fish showing 2 showed In the Maddox. Quite a few showing in the Vanstone & couple showed in the lines. Had small pike from the Vanstone. No luck with the salmon. Popped back this evening went down through the Maddox caught 16lb salmon on flying C only fished for 20 mins then packed up. Lovely beat well maintained easy access to pools. Enjoyable fishing.

1 Salmon, 1 Pike

10lb salmon caught at 1300hrs on fly 1/2" shrimpy tube Little Kitty. River at 2'6" brown spate.

1 Salmon