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First time on this beat for me. Hard work but enjoyable. Trotted maggot in several swims, river flowing at it's winter level. A good few hours spent on the river.

1 Trout, 2 Chub

One Grayling of around 14" hooked (red tag) but lost. One decent, 16", OOS Brown trout taken on a 'Holy Grail Hare's Ear Olive' which went ballistic when hooked!

1 Trout

Float fished and legered baits Saturday and Sunday. The original idea was to fish for grayling on the float but it rained overnight and consequently the river rose and colored up making it very difficult to find grayling. Fished beat 2 Saturday and beat 6 Sunday with only one grayling to show between 3 of us. Ended up fishing cheese paste and meat for the chub, who were more obliging than the grayling. Terry responded quickly to the E mail I sent and was helpful as regards what Beats would be best for grayling, just unfortunate about the rain.

1 Trout, 1 Grayling, 12 Chub

Lovely days fishing 4 chub to 5lb caught.

4 Chub

River had dropped to 0.6m overnight and looked perfect. However, 2 of us trotted our hearts out all day for a nil return. Not sure if we failed to locate fish or did not hit upon the correct presentation, but we tried running through, holding back, heavy and light floats, different shotting patterns etc. to no avail. Did not try the fly rods and maybe should have. Just one of those days perhaps, but after a previous more successful trip we will be back to this stunning beat.

3 Barbel, 13 Chub

River in flood, 0.9m on Cilmery gauge.

8 Barbel, 6 Chub

Blank. Air temperature in the low single figures, no sun, surrounding hills scarred with ice. The river very clear and almost low now. A lonely sort of day with a red kite mewing overhead. A grayling or two would have been company, but they didn't show up. Very difficult.

No Northern Volunteer Team working today so grabbed a couple of hours fishing as quite a bit of extra water expected after heavy rain forecast for Friday.
10" grayling on pink shrimp on third cast - and that was it. Nice to get out if a tad chilly.

1 Grayling