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Just a short afternoon on the river, broke new grounds with a small Dace on a salmon rod. Didn't give to much of a fight, rain tonight?

1 Other

Fished until about 4.30pm. Water the lowest ever experienced at CLG with only 0.23m on the Cilmery gauge. Pools pretty stagnant. A few olives around in the morning but little fly on the water all day, even with the considerable leaf fall that the wind brought down either side of midday. Quite a lot of sipping small fish but relatively few grayling tempted to the top. Had six trout the best of 12" and 14" and seven grayling, all but two of 8"-10", the others being 14" and a nice 16" one and half pounder. Fish taken on small hare's ear emergers, Grayling Steel Blue and a tiny greenfly pattern.
A word of warning to anyone wanting to park in the middle car park by the "Grandstand" part of the beat: there is an ongoing tree-felling operation with much work still to be done and the car park area is log-jammed, inaccessible and very muddy. Having driven down, it took some time to get out and park elsewhere! If you plan to fish the top half of the beat it will probably be wiser to park right at the top (ref the map) or by the house and then walk rather than drive down the track.

6 Trout, 7 Grayling

My first visit to this beat. Very low (Cilmery gauge 0.22) and fish understandably spooky. Quite windy for a change and a lot of leaves coming down. Grayling all 9"-11", 4 on dry and 6 on nymphs. Finished off with two trout, one respectable at 14" which gave me something to net. Look forward to fishing it again.

2 Trout, 10 Grayling

Second day, started at first light and concentrated on the bottom end of the stretch for the day. No action throughout the day, had hopes of a couple of barbel in the last couple of hours (like the previous day) but not to be. Didn't catch a thing. Low river and sunbathing weather didn't help.

Most enjoyable day, despite the lack of water. The most successful fly being a Green Diawl Bach retrieved slowly in the shallows.
Thank you Allyson for your welcome and invaluable advice,
I will continue to bring clients to fish your waters in
the future.

2 Trout, 4 Grayling

As at lower Escley the water was very low and clear, there were odd fish rising but not taking the dries I offered, switched to nymphs and caught 2 small [6-7inches] and 1 nice grayling 12 " hooked another which got off, [barbless hooks] worth the odd loss to help protect fish from damage.

2 Trout, 1 Grayling

The river down on its bones. Need a good lift of water. No fish showing. None caught.

River very low, bright sunny day, took 6 small brown trout to 8" all on a brown klinkhammer.

6 Trout

A surprisingly bright, sunny day with fish to 8" on a elk hair dry.

7 Trout

Second day on Holme Lacey, river still mega low and today we had sunshine for good measure but as can often happen the barbel fed a bit better this time and we managed a slightly more credible 11 barbel and 11 chub again all caught on various pellets. The river desperately needs rain and then should fish brilliantly. Once again it was great to spend a bit of time chatting to Colin and learning more about the river and the fish in it. Finally for this year another big thank you to the W.U.F for making it all possible.

11 Barbel, 11 Chub