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Cold and very windy, gave up after about 1 hour

8 x trout 6-8 inches, Gold Bead Hare's Ear nymph. Some fairly heavy showers this morning and the water had coloured up before I reached the top end.

8 Trout

Strange evening session - I see O.B beat me to it so makes a little more sense now! Picked off a couple of 6/7" wbt on GRHE fished duo, no rises to the klink. Fish not rising as such in the pools, but jumping clean out of the water - no obvious hatch so have no idea what they were up to?! Must have seen half a dozen doing it. As all was quiet despite fish clearly being there, I tied on a black streamer tied on a #14 jig hook, swung it through a riffle and first cast had an energetic 9" wbt...then all quiet again

3 Trout

Another excellent day with Mick Sutton who knows every inch of the water. Started with a Flying C but fished mostly with a weighted fly on a fast sinking tip, all to no avail. The river rose about 4" during the day and was high to start with (arguably a wash-off) but, going fishing is not only about catching fish. Will be back in May.

River a bit higher than expected and a large spring tide put it up a further foot for an hour. Will try this beat again when much lower as some water looks good for fly. Flying C and Devons this time though.

unable to fish due to river hight and colour

River in flood so did not fish

Crayfish a major pain on our bait

1 Trout