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Bit of a tough day with the river up 0.5mtr and coloured so spinning was the order for the day; didn't help that I left the waders in the kitchen either!
The usual suspects put in an appearance, chub and shad, (the Pulpit was full of kippers), but after lunch a solid take on Black/Gold FC was followed by a 20lb+ fish clearing the water and heading upstream..... My line however was going downstream!
After a short but spirited tussle I netted a 6lb cock fish which took almost 15 minutes to recover... Swam away strongly enough though, eventually. Didn't see the 20 again unfortunately as shortly after the river coloured even more and began to rise again.
For any coarse anglers smart enough to read this, the second and last pegs on left bank are looking very good ( but snags under willow) and first peg under willow on right bank is full of chub but shelves up quickly; no more than three rod lengths down... Tight lines.

1 Salmon, 1 Chub, 1 Other

River very high, fished for half an hour. Will come back.

1 Trout

River up but running clear. Fish taken on a variety of methods.

5 Trout, 5 Grayling

Great beat, caught one and had three takes which managed to wriggle off my barbless fly.

1 Trout

1 Trout

Water high and coloured. Fished weighted nymphs for four fish to 1.5 lbs

4 Trout

not much happening at surface so opted to nymph. wind was very strong and played havoc with tip of fly line. so with utter disgust stuck on a bite indicator. this helped no end keeping the flies moving through the feeding lanes. water up a little and slightly coloured all trout between 7-16 inches and the grayling between 6-14 inches. all taking size 16 3mm tungsten bead baetis nymph. nice few hours on the lugg

16 Trout, 6 Grayling

River is still slightly coloured. The extra water improved the fishing with most trout taking the nymph. Nice fish up to 13" caught. Only fished the first few pools from the bridge upwards over lunch time.

10 Trout