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Disaster! Hoped to get 4-5 hours trotting before the river coloured and levels raised. After one hour the river was up 30 centimeters and was well coloured. In that hour three grayling 7-14 inches and three oos trout 6-9 inches were keen for maggots, then away they went sheltering from the amount of debris passing through the fishery. Did try a few slacker areas but nothing interested at all with my offerings.

3 Trout, 3 Grayling

Only ended up fishing for a couple of hours following a long drive and exploring the beat for the first time. Luke caught a pike just over 9lbs.

1 Pike

Challenging weather conditions....rained all day with strongish winds thankfully from the right direction. Fished from 10 till 3, firstly with nymphs but with no takes whatsoever.. changed to dry flies despite the rain and proceeded to take 7 voracious trout all on size 16 Adams Klinkhammer from 10-14". No sign of any grayling whatsoever despite all my efforts. I must have disturbed a massive tawny owl which flew from a hole in a tree surprisingly close to the water level.Only managed to fish two thirds of the beat.

7 Trout

Lost 2 fish had one barbel and a good chub
5lb 10 all on elips dumbells with a swim feeder

1 Barbel, 1 Chub

Weather and water still unseasonably warm, so brown trout still feeding voraciously. Unintentionally caught 2, both released. Despite fishing deep on the bottom (losing many flies in the process) no grayling caught.

2 Trout

River starting to rise and getting coloured. Only fished from 12 till 15:00. 2 trout on nymphs.

2 Trout

My first attempt at trotting for grayling. Quite a few fish caught though mainly small - largest fish just over a pound.

13 Grayling

Small rise in levels(6") but still running clear. Barbel between 6 and 8 lbs on boilies/pellets. Very mild weather.

4 Barbel

John & I fished this beautiful beat on a less than beautiful day. We got very wet and cold but had a lovely time never the less. We didn't see or catch any grayling - our target fish, but we got some activity from oos brownies, including a couple of reasonable size.
We took refuge in the open Church close to the river at the peak of the rain which was a pleasant respite.
There was one GREAT moment when I was casting a fly at what I thought was a rising grayling only 6 feet away, when a Salmon the length of my arm leaped out of the water, 5 times, as if it was having fun, then disappeared. Fifteen minutes later John, who had been trotting a maggot about 600 yards above me appeared and said a BIG fish had broke his line. He didn't know what it was as he never saw the fish!!! A salmon taking a maggot?
As 'Arnie' said " I'll be back"

9 Trout

We fished the Abernant beat in bad weather conditions...most of the time some 'mild to heavy' rain. We fished most of our time the Lady Alexanders pool. We enjoyed seeing a lot of salmon jumping about, but could only catch two moderate sized graylings on a weighted nymph in the main chanel. I had one bigger fish on the hook for about 20sec. but this fish came loose in the end. Probably a trout.
I also tried to wade the 'stone catch', but it felt to tricky to risk too much. The bank (left side) of the "Abernant stream" was difficult to walk, so I fished only the end of this part without any sign of a fish.
There was no surface activity the whole day so we only tried to have some luck by nymphing and a few times a wet fly.
Loved the day, but fishing was a challenge.

2 Grayling