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Lovely day but water low. There were a few rises in the pools but the fish weren't interested in what I was offering - nul point.

Had a great day. Saw 1 rise and caught 2 trout, one 8ins long and one 4ins long. Thanks.

2 Trout

First time on this beat, really enjoyed it. The out of season grayling were all 6 inch peas in a pod. The trout were 6 to 8 inches with the fish of the day an eleven incher. Plenty of insect life but very few fish rising. All taken on a variety of mostly tungsten beaded nymphs on point and dropper. Had some great close up views of an otter (but hope it doesn't affect the fish stocks!).

9 Trout, 6 Grayling

River was at normal level and running pretty clear.
Up stream dry fly was used throughout the day.
Some sections of this beat can be quite challenging for the novice wader or those not accustomed to larger rivers, such as myself and my companion.
Fish were seen rising throughout the day, numbers of fish caught was only limited by our skill and ability.
Beautiful area I'd thoroughly recommend giving this beat a visit.
8 Brown Trout and 1 out of season Grayling all safely returned.

8 Trout, 1 Grayling

We managed 12 wbt between our 2 rods, caught throughout the day, and all taken using nymph and spider patterns. Sporadic hatches led us to try dry flies but nothing could be tempted.
Access to the water is much improved since last season, which meant a good part of the water was available to us. Wading is still tricky in parts so caution is needed.
A terrific beat to spend a day on.

12 Trout

A fish of c.20lbs came to the fly in the Cafn Pool and fish of c.12lbs and 8lbs came to the Flying C on friday on the coloured water from the Boat Pool. Another fish was hooked and lost in the Corner pool. Interestingly the 8lb fish was already a little pink rather than silver.
In addition, numerous fish were seen running through.

3 Salmon

Tried various methods hardly a touch, very difficult river to fish.

Bright and sunny, 3 trout taken and returned around lunchtime on small iron blue dun emerger patterns

3 Trout

Two shad caught on a Cascade fly, size 12, 35cm & 25cm length, returned unharmed. Also a brown trout about 2lbs took Cascade! No salmon to be seen.

1 Trout, 2 Other

Fished all the beat that would take a fly before turning to the spinning rod, for where it was running out of water a bit. A few fish showing in different parts of the beat but one silver fish showing repeatedly in the middle of rock took my eye. It had been fished past a few times during the day without success, so I decided to wait for the sun to move. Woke up on the bank when it went cold with cloud cover, three casts and it was on, a 16 pound bar of silver. Shame it was not on the fly, but a home made barbless single hook flying C, easy to remove, it's the way to go.

1 Salmon