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1 Trout

2 Trout

A cool day. The river looked in good condition and it certainly looks different in the Winter. Two nice barbel caught mid day in the swim below the power lines.

2 Barbel

Another blank day I'm afraid though weather better than last week but temperature 9deg and water 0.88m. No fly life visible and a keen east wind meant a difficult day. Went from above through Roch Pool for both salmon and trout with no takes though you felt you were in with a shout!!
Wood stream and below bridge too high.

4 x trout 10-13 inches, Waterhen Bloa and Dark Moorgame. Late afternoon session. Last of the dark olives just finishing for the day, but trout continued to come up to spiders for an hour or so. It's getting warmer at last.

4 Trout

2 Trout

River high coloured no fish for me tried pellet, maggot, meat.

First outing of the year & lovely to be on the river again. Caught & released 3 trout (best around 13") and lost two at the net. Fishing was hard going until 12.30 & all fish were hooked / caught between then & 2.30pm. A very brief hatch of olives (looked like LDO but my entomology is somewhat rusty these days!) at 1pm but not a single rise.

3 Trout

Two days fishing on this stretch. River very high and chocolate brown on the first day. Dropped at least 3 feet overnight and less colour. Also overnight frost, so conditions very much against us. We managed to land six barbel up to 8lb 9oz and lost three more. Also landed a couple of Chub. Lovely stretch previously fished this stretch in September totally different conditions.

6 Barbel, 2 Chub

Difficult day, not unfishable but the river was high & moving through very quickly due to the heavy rain from earlier in the week, tried several different swims, spending a few hours in each & trying the usual method & selection of baits for the Barbel which have worked for us previously, nothing caught which we put down to the low water temperature more than any of the other factors.