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2 Trout

Two anglers, with Mick's helpful guiding.. Water high but reasonably clear with some weed, but still fishable with a sink tip. Three shad caught on the fly, but no salmon seen.

3 Other

1 x 6 inch trout dry fly. Four school boy poachers spinning the water turned off the top end.

1 Trout

Fished 8am-1pm.
A very enjoyable morning surrounded by abundant fly life, including some May flies, once the day warmed up a bit and splashing salmon. Very few rising fish.
Just above 0.8 on the Erwood gauge and falling. Carrying some colour.
First time on this beat and there is certainly a lot of water to cover. With Water temperatures in the mid 16’s I focused on the faster water. 5 trout to the net all on nymphs. Many bumped which at least kept the concentration up. Excitingly also landed 4 Shad. They have some real power. The largest getting on 3lbs and put up an incredible fight on my 3wt nymph rod.

Fishing Passport Note: Please remember that Shad are a protected species, therefore you cannot specifically target them and if you come across a shoal, you should look at moving to another pool.

5 Trout, 4 Other

Warm partially cloudy day, with an occasional strong down stream breeze. River very low, but with a tinge of colour.
Mayfly on the wing pretty much all day, beautiful to see!
Stuck on dry all day, fishing various Klinkhammer colours, didn't seem to bother the fish they just took everything!
Sadly the size of most of the fish were in the 4 - 6 inch range, with the occasional larger specimen. I did however land a 13 inch beauty, which pretty much made my day.
Overall a lovely day out.

19 Trout, 1 Grayling

Short evening session, lots of fly life late on including large mayfly hatch but nothing rising.

Fished 2pm-5
A beautiful warm slightly overcast day. Fished duo, dry and nymph on long leader.
Loads of fly life and a steady hatch of Mayfly throughout. Interestingly I didn’t see any Mayfly taken of the surface with other upswings selected instead.
All fish taken in the first 200m of stream after that only a couple of rising fish seen and nothing on the nymph.
The blurb was right with the average size of fish being bigger than the norm for a small stream.
The nice 14 inch Grayling was sight-fished from a deep slow pool the trout from the heads of pools. One trout to a dry the others and the Grayling to a Maynymph.

4 Trout, 1 Grayling

Fished 530-730 the last of a three beat day. I tried to move pretty quickly covering the lower section of the beat up to the bridge with a long leader and single Mayfly nymph.
A beautiful warm slightly overcast day. With the river running low but carrying some colour. I have fished this section of river more than any other W&UF venue but have never seen it with fly life like today. Quite amazing, even the odd Mayfly.
I tried to count the fish under 5inches separately from those over but lost count after 15. In all about 25 fish with 6 over the 5/6 inch mark and one nice 13 incher on the last cast of the day.

25 Trout

4 trout all on drys

4 Trout

Quite a tough day, but found some in the end, most fish on small black dry's but a couple on diawal bach's.

8 Trout