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Wind and squally showers, difficult days fly fishing with little activity. No fish caught.

5 Barbel 2 Chub 1 Eel on pellet and meat. Biggest Barbel 9 lb smallest 1 lb

5 Barbel, 2 Chub, 1 Other

At dawn on spinner -
1 x 1/2 lbs Brown Trout - released 2 x 1 - 1.5 lbs Rainbow Trout. Beer drinkers (who left many-many empty cans strewn across the bank)stopped play!
Dusk on spinner -
1 x 1 lbs Rainbow Trout
Plus two very big bags full of crushed beer cans!
Show some respect to the environment you idiots!!

5 Trout

River high and very coloured - looked like Bisto. Practiced some various nymphing techniques but gave up after a while.
Not much hope of catching anything at all. Shame, my last trout outing of the year was a disappointment.

Fished for a couple of hours from dawn and managed to find a three good rainbow trout that took a spinner on very light tackle (I missed at least a couple more), we left to pursue other autumnal activities in the area (thus avoiding a profusion of bait fisherman who descended and surrounded us at about 9am) and returned for the evening bite, when I took one more for myself and saw my friends fill their bag limit too. Lovely fishing, helped by a slight temperature drop and rain the night before. We had to remove a carrier bags worth of rubbish thoughlessly dropped by the days anglers, which was rather sad.

4 Trout

5 Barbel, 3 Chub

The fish wasn't caught on the Caradoc beat, but opposite the Caradoc beat(private beat) 10 lbs

1 Salmon

Very slow day two: the fish were caught at the end of the day I am aware of the swim access debate, however, its dissapointing that the bank below the island which the best swims on the river are only available to mountain goats or the very foolish.

4 Chub

Last Trout trip of the season unfortunately so decided on Cregrina. Water was a little low and very clear and the Trout were mainly in the slow glides which made approach tricky. 9 Trout all around 6 inches took a size 16 F fly about the same amount lost.
Lovely day on the Edw, roll on spring.
Also spotted some Japanese knot weed towards the bottom of the beat.

9 Trout

First time on this beat and only fished from the mill stream down a couple of pools. All trout came from the fast pacey water and most of the grayling from the heads of pools. 3 biggest grayling 14 16 and 17 inches, the others caught were salmon parr. What I fished was very nice water but cannot comment on what's below as didn't fish it. All took point fly on team of nymphs.

8 Trout, 12 Grayling, 12 Other