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Fishing for grayling, polish nymph style. No fish seen rise. Water was difficult for fishing. I will back to fish for wild trout in summer time.

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

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

3 Barbel, 13 Chub

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

An enjoyable day on this prolific stretch. We quickly landed 6 chub to 4.5lb on breadflake. Every move yielded a bite. With a bit more finesse we could have landed many more.... Fished for approx 5 hours.

6 Chub

Water very cold. Two chub of about 4lb each, both on meat. One barbel lost, gave trotting a go but not much depth to the swims on this stretch of water.

2 Chub