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Had the most wonderful day's fishing but it was so hot during the heat of the day and all fish to early morning and late afternoon/early evening. Persisted with pellet (probably for too long), eventually giving up and trying rolling meat to no avail. Then tried rolling cheese and caught all fish on this method even the barbel. Biggest chub 5lb, and biggest barbel 11lb.

2 Barbel, 10 Chub

7 Barbel

2 Trout

River with s little colour. 1 x fish on at Aldees Pool on FC but lost it! Plenty of fish rising early am.

The wind is getting to be a pain now! Straight in my face today so it was nymphs again. Fished 11:00hrs 'til 15:30hrs. Saw a couple of splashy rises that's all. Fish came from the deep ' blue ' holes. Lovely valley and a magical place. Saw lots of fresh footprints in the likely spots so I think the residents of the cottage may have been out before me? It's been said before by others and I'll add my comments - there's a couple of cracking runs which are completely unfishable now with overhanging branches. Desperately needs cutting back in a few places. Lots of BWO's and Sherry Spinners about but too windy to fish dries.

I didn't fish above the bridge as the fish had switched off by the time I'd got there so I drew stumps.

It's like a forgotten valley up there. On the way home I was stuck behind a large dairy herd which was making their way up the road to the farm. Lovely to see and I haven't seen that for years. Made my day.

5 Trout, 4 Grayling

water getting low ,no fish seen or taken

Fished from 2.30 to 7.45pm. Almost no sign of any fish at all. Only saw two small rises. Water seemed a bit murky. I did see two kingfishers and a robin

4 Trout

My first time on The Rectory beat and following all the water last week my hopes were high. Gauge was at 1'2" with good clarity. Quite breezy at times. Alas it was not to be. Fished Island, Rock, Tail, Bridge, Mill, Rectory neck with not even a fish showing. Went back to Rock at 7.30pm to see if an evening session might change things. Unfortunately not although a big fish, twenty pounds ?, jumped about 10 yards from me as I worked down the tail. Salmon fishing huh? On to Penpont now to hopefully have more success.