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No longer JM from Kingsland as have now retired to Devon. Back for a long weekend for a wedding so took the opportunity to have a day on Abernant.
The rain on Friday lifted the level by .25 of a metre and gave the river a bit of life.
Eight wbt between 8 and 12 inches on a variety of dry flies and now 12 inch grayling on a sedge late in the day.
Several large hatches of olives and a few mayflies but never many fish rising, otherwise would have expected a few more fish.
Several families playing in the river on the far bank restricted area fished to lower area of Lady Alexander’s Catch and wading to the middle of Abernant stream and fishing back towards the bank.
Back in Salcombe now - experimenting with fly fishing for mullet who will take a nymph and wiggly worms and give a good tussle on a four weight, and bass and pollock on lures.
Will be back for another session on the Wye in July.

8 Trout, 1 Grayling

1 Trout

Lovely session from 6pm to 9pm with many flies hatching and good surface activity. Trouts very most active at sunset, going after the (I believe) large may flies (Ephemera Danica) that very present in large number that afternoon. I fished the upper half of the beat, starting at the Tan house campsite where I was staying and wading upstream. Great stream with succession of pools and faster sections with plenty of good spots. I was lucky to catch all the fish my biggest deer based dry flies (hook 16 but I wished I had bigger versions). 8 fish caught, the biggest around 10'' but lively and energetic animals. I will come back!

8 Trout

A few salmon seen in the tail of Vanstones, but quite coloured fish and probably residents. One small shad caught and safely released.

1 Other

Three of us fished using the french nymph method and with success on the faster runs and tails into pools. The majority of fish were caught in and just downstream of the large pool on the main bend of the beat. The river clinches after the bend and provides a long run down the left bank which produced a large number of hard fighting brown tout and 2 salmon parr of about 15 to 20cm. Our largest brown trout was about 35cm and was very dark in colour. Caught from the deep section of the ledge below the bend.

32 Trout, 2 Other

A decent salmon followed my fly at Upper Heirag. Couple of nice trout on dry flies.
I left a landing net on the bank at Bridge Pool. If anyone finds it, could they contact the office. Thank you.

2 Trout

Another dull day, was hoping for some sun but got a rain shower and cloud, been a few times now and come home empty handed, very disappointed but will come back, hopefully the weather will be on my side next time as it's a 2 hr drive from where we live Enjoyed the day out tho thanks

3 Trout

fished from a few hors before dark until first light and caught only a few brownies in the fading light

3 Trout