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Wonderful afternoons fishing - lots of fish rising : but not easy to catch. All fish returned

9 Trout

Beautiful hot day, but tricky conditions made fishing difficult (my excuse anyway!). Low water levels and a very warm day meant that locating and catching fish proved to be a problem. Did get sightings of two separate large'ish trout in one of the deeper very slow pools, but they were not interested in anything I put in front of them. Did catch one small Grayling on a nymph dropper with a Klinkhammer indicator in one of the faster shallow sections mid beat. Saw two herons (I'm sure one of them was pure white) and a cormorant early on. A great day but would have liked few more fish!
(WUF Note: the all white 'Heron' may well have been an Egret)

1 Grayling

Couple of Grilse showing but no contact on a difficult day.

Chose the yomp that is Cardiac Hill for a day in the wooded section, river looked in good condition with normal summer levels, conditions were warm with overcast clouds.
We fished a variety of methods from legered meat, pellet feeder and long trotting with fish coming regularly throughtout the day. Barbel to 9lb and chub to 5lb (the size of barbel was certainly higher than the previous year with many averaging 7lb).
A fantastic days sport in outstanding scenery.
Many thanks to the Foundation and the excellent work they undertake.

20 Barbel, 15 Chub

fished the margins as the weed was a bit of a problem at distance, I tried various swims round the lake, only had a couple of bites all day, resulting in a two wildies 2 lbs each.Stunning location and weather made up for the lack of fish

2 Other

Nice location water level low and clear no fish rising 2 trout and 4 others all small fish caught on nymph. Wading relatively easy but some deep shelving pools so caution needed.

2 Trout, 4 Other

1 Barbel, 1 Chub

no fish caught

Managed a quick session whilst out camping with the good lady at Tan house farm right next to the river. Hardly any flow in the pools but the fish are there, and quite a few too and some of good size. A very long fine leader and skulking around behind the undergrowth Vietnam style got some results. Nothing was hatching unsurprisingly but fish where topping here and there and a size 18 CDC F fly was the favoured fly. Biggest was a 12 incher. Lovely.
Incidentally the camp site here is great and highly recommended. Lovely people at the farm and good facilities with a loo and showers. The wife was happy.
Camping, river,trout, good pub & beer at the top of the field . What more does a man need!

3 Trout

Super low water, super summer weather, super beat and 3 trout to a great 16 inches. Hard but enjoyable yards. Made even better by a delightful plague of fishing kingfishers. Morning only fished. Many thanks.

3 Trout