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No fish caught, very nice day though.

Really lovely afternoon of fishing...two small trout ( half pounders ) taken both on a gold nymph and both returned in good shape.

2 Trout

My bro and I only caught 1 fish each but this is our lack of river skills and nothing to do with the beat.
It's a very pretty beat in a lovely setting, plenty of fish rising, March browns and others coming off, mainly nyphing but also tried dries, we need to get some lessons in river craft.

2 Trout

Beautiful day with glorious sunshine but nothing was moving.

A very challenging days fishing, bright sunshine....
a nice hatch of March browns with a few LDO and brook duns thrown in. Biggest fish touching 15 inches. Mostly caught on dries.

12 Trout

A great day on a great beat. Nothing rising to a cdc olive so switched to the duo and caught some on the nymph.
The best places seem to be where it opens out about half way and the falls.

7 Trout

Fished with John Lewis from top run through to bridge. Fished sub surface spiders of grannom and March Brown pattern size14 with great success landing 12 fish each between 11 and 3". The fish were mainly small though contacted one in woodstream of around 3lb which tore line off at will and decided it was not going to play ball. Eventually lost it after about 10 mins on 3lb line which was disappointing.

24 Trout

Blue sky all day and surprisingly warm by the afternoon. My first visit and the river didn't appear to be running out of the ordinary. Wind was blowing from the east and down the river.
There was some fly action, but very little over the water, only saw one rise all day.
The only fish caught was caught on a nymph in the morning, a lovely brown trout of about 1.5lb in weight. I caught it on an LBJ (little brown jobbie).

1 Trout

Wall to wall sunshine today, and it's a bank holiday! A couple of flurries of March Browns, but few LDOs. Four good trout including a beautiful eighteen incher. All on nymph. All returned.

4 Trout

Warm at last and felt like trouting weather all be it a bit bright as the day went on. The wading is challenging here especially up through the wooded sections with a few heart in mouth moments if you want to switch banks. Well worth it however even if I do always seem to get a bit wet and bruised on this beat. Two trout to pheasant tail nymph in the morning fished as a duo on a long leader but the real excitement came at lunch time with about a 20 minute hatch of march browns. The two streamy runs I was in at the time had 3-4 large trout each rolling at the surface and flashing silver bellies. One of 1lb 12oz taken on a brown klinkhammer and a couple missed before it all went quite. Two more nice fish on GBGRHE in the afternoon capped a very satisfactory day.

5 Trout