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No fish caught, no fish seen, small hatch of light grey/brown Mayfly approx. 25mm long (including cerci, a few caddis larvae and shrimp. Two pairs of grey wagtails, one dipper, a tree creeper, lots of blue tits, two goosanders and a cormorant. Had a pleasant chat with the farmer for about half an hour about farming. Many thanks, keep up the good work!

Blustery and mainly clear day but downstream wind made for tricky conditions. Eventually fished with spiders and nymphs across and down. Landed one nice fish in riffles toward bottom of beat on nymph. Lots of dark olives coming off the water around noon. One or two rises and watched a wonderful weighty trout cruise midstream up from the Salmon Pool. Wonderful to be on the river again.

1 Trout

Bright and sunny with the river running clear. Both fished weighted nymphs for most of the day without a touch. Virtually no fly on the water. The odd fish rose on the glide at the bottom but couldn't interest them with anything. One of those days.

River level fallen but still coloured elected to repeat last weeks attempt but right bank fly only . Advice given to fish a sinking line. Only option use a fast sinking polytip, success rate 0/0 but overall fishing day 10/10 . Next time?

Water level was just right but as a bit of colour still evident I went for a larger tungsten tube fly at 1.5 inch, a cascade pattern with lots of sparkle. A shortish 5 foot tip on a 5 foot super fast sinking leader on the end of an intermediate/ sink #2 tip shooting head. All this effort paid off at 3pm with a fine silver 7.5lb hen fish that went ballistic. Weigh-netted a released safely after a quick photo in the net, for the non believers!

1 Salmon

River still a little high and carrying some colour but definitely fishable.
At least 2 fresh fish of a good size seen in the Vanstone. No interest unfortunately though.

A lovely beat this, especially on a fine sunny day. The water clarity was like that of a chalk stream with fish clearly visible moving around the largest pool, little or no hatch of fly. No trout caught but did catch a massive grayling on a hares ear. The fish was just about as long as my forearm!

1 Grayling

Great day but no fish, and no fish showing.

Ideal conditions. Fish lost on beat 3 and 2 fish seen on beat 6.

Nothing seen or caught.