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Gorgeous day on the beat. Four fish caught on the dry (para adams) with the largest at two pounds. Then a number caught on the nymph (hares ear). All the fish were caught before 2pm.

7 Trout

Beautiful day, beautiful beat but no fish! Plenty of life around, mayfly and and hawthorne rising but very little movement at the surface. Saw a fine sized salmon around 10lb leap straight up out of the river as we arrived and then again as we came back after lunch! Wonder if this is a strategy from the WUF to keep us keen?
After only a couple of nibbles with single imitations on the surface we tried out the Kink and dink for the first time and within 10 mins I pulled in a baby brownie from the kink and a large 1.5 - 2lb grayling on the dink both successfully sent back for another day!
Otherwise, not a nibble, though this could have been caused by the over energetic first castings of my 8 year old son scaring all life away?

1 Trout, 1 Grayling

I did not see or touch any salmon, but the water looked good and I was certainly hopeful. It got a bit bright around midday so I decided to try for the trout instead, especially given the nice hatch that was taking place, including a few mayfly. The trout fishing was superb and I must have had 20+ between 10-15 inches, all returned, of course.

25 Trout

Downstream wind hampered upstream dry fly fishing a bit but still managed go get a few when olives hatched intermittently. Lovely water and great day out.

12 Trout

Great fishing - starting at 2 pm and olives hatching constantly until 8 pm. All fish caught on dries including Dogsbody, Rupert Bear,Tup's and Griffiths gnat. Very good quality fish up to 2lbs. A memorable day.

25 Trout

Cold downstream wind made things quite tricky at times however we had a good time. Ten trout to 38cm most on dries.

10 Trout

Arrived 9am, coldish with strong westerly wind, frequently gusty. No fly hatch, no fish rising. Pulled wets for 3 hours on the upper end of the lake close to the river mouth and down along the roadside bank. No offers at all, no fish seen and no sign of any other anglers. There is quite a lot of weed growth in the water which frequently mucks up the flies. Left just before noon.

We caught 3 trout, one about one and a half pounds to a nymph. River seemed strangley subdued very little rising could not catch on the dry fly.

3 Trout

Water extremely low which made things very challenging as very limited water movement. 1 nice trout caught and a number of other large ones disturbed including one of 3 to 4lb which I mistook for a salmon at first!

1 Trout

Water extremely low. Caught 3 nice trout and lost a leviathan for a stream like this (c. 2lb). Attractive stream.

3 Trout