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20lb fresh fish

1 Salmon

0.21m on the gauge and running at a steady pace. Coldish Easterly wind not best for this beat. Good hatch of LDO at about 3.30pm, however, not a riser to be seen. Only caught in deeper water, the trout on a PTN and the rather small grayling on an olive Klink, that came up out of pity ! Good to meet up with S.C. yesterday who is a regular here, while I was out walking, and have a natter about fishing in general.

1 Trout, 1 Grayling

14 x trout 10-15 inches, Waterhen Bloa, Dark Moorgame, Woodcock and Hare's Lug, Grannom spider, Olive Jingler. The river was in fine condition as the level came down, but this trip was actually very hard work. A cold night was followed by a day of low cloud cover and a very chilly east wind. And I suppose nobody told the trout that the clocks had changed. So I waited and waited, fishing spiders for the odd fish until, quite late in the day, a hatch of large dark olives began and I was able to make up the rest of the bag with a dry fly on the surface. I have it on (several) good authorities that a couple of days ago, when it was warmer, a large hatch of grannom appeared in this part of the river.

14 Trout

A couple of hours at the bottom of the beat. Briefly hooked two, and then lost them.

Nothing caught but very enjoyable day on lovely beat. Hatch of large dark olives and March Browns mid afternoon.

Cloudy cold day with a slight breeze. Water clarity was excellent with a strong flow. 3 WBT on deep fished nymphs in fast water and 3 on small dries in a sparse hatch.

6 Trout

1 Trout

Excellent conditions, high water level. 4 fat rainbows around 2 lbs each caught on spinner. Great day of fishing.

4 Trout

Started on flats but no rises and fish not responding to nymphs or spiders. Around midday found few rising fish but on farside of unwadeable pool and in slack water on farside of current. Unable to cover properly. Party of 7 canooists wandered through, claimed they were kayakers not canooists and didnt respond to my requests but continued theirway through beat.