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Three caught, 17, 12 and 12 inches. First caught on a PTN below a dry fly. The other two caught on a dark olive dry fly. There was a sparse hatch late morning that lasted from about 11am till 1pm, with trout rising to these for about 30 mins. The river is in good form.

3 Trout

1 x small trout plus parr

1 Trout

Great hatch of March browns from 11 for about an hour which got many fish feeding. Most of the fish taken during this time to a cdc dun pattern in #12. Biggest fish of the day fell to a small nymph with measured in at about 16". Good day.

15 Trout

River it was dropping and clearing really well, it takes the fly in most of the pools now. I fished hard but not springers seen.
Nice spring day to be out.

1 Trout

Perfect fishing day sun with high cloud, river good height 2'1" and falling, good clarity but on the cold side 44 degrees. Expectations high but no Salmon caught or seen, some descent March Brown and Olive hatches and the surprise catch of a relatively silver 1 1/2 lb sea trout on the fly at the end of an enjoyable days fishing. Fishing the Chapel catch gutter was slightly tricky at this height as my brother and myself both have descent studded boots but at times were being slid along the bedrocks by the strength of current so caution needed in higher flows I'd say!

1 Trout, 1 Sea Trout

1 10" wbt on dry fly Adams pattern

1 Trout

4 wbt 3 on dry fly one on ghptn

4 Trout

Sunny day and river low, only saw one fish and despite decent hatches no rises seen between us.

Saturday was the first lovely day we have had this year, it was great to be out in such a nice area enjoying a bit of sun.
I've never fished any of the rivers round this area so was reliant on the description from the website to choose a location.
Unfortunately the river was in flood and virtually unfishable, the surrounding fields had standing water which was flowing in to the river and adding to the lovely brown colour. The current was so strong that wading was impossible except on the inside of 2 bends. Any fish in the river remain unbothered by our limited efforts!
Sadly the beat is in need of a lot of work to remove fallen and overgrown trees and quite big build ups of winter flood debris which in a couple of places looked like beaver dams.
We persisted for about 5 hours but never saw any sign of a fish.
The map indicates that a sign is at the top of the beat, I think we walked a long way past that point as there was nothing obvious but on the way back there is a sign on the BACK of a fence between the 2 weirs which is only about a third of the way up the beat.
A pleasant day for a yomp along a river bank, I would be interested to see the river in good condition one day when i'm back in the area.