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Very cold, bright with strong easterly. Good hatch at around 2pm of what I think were March Browns! One 3/4lb fish on wet March Brown. Many thanks.

1 Trout

Still very cold although there was much more sun than the last few days. There must have been some fly life coming off because I was treated to the extraordinary sight of a bat feeding in the middle of the day. It was scooping insects from the surface of the river just below the bridge. But that hatch was of no interest to the fish. Although I was warmer than the last few days, I still saw no fish and caught none.

Fished for a couple of hours am. Very cold first real sunshine of the year but it didnt help the fishing.

Nice day out. Nil by hook. Only 1 inflatable went past.

Bright sun, cold, strong wind, water low and clear.
A few olives hatched mid afternoon. Saw no fish, caught no fish.

Another really cold day made worse by taking small swim! Fortunately had so many layers on it didn't really get in too much. Water now at a reasonable height and clearing, just very cold. No fish seen. Don helpful as always. Gave up by 4. I've had enough of this Siberian fishing, its getting beyond a joke.

Arrived at eleven to see 4 inches of snow around the hills at Pilleth, water temp with the snow melt was absolutely freezing cold. Beat looks fantastic now, floods before Christmas have cleaned a lot of debris away. Will not fish well for a while I feel. Will give it another go around May time when temps have risen. Still to me one of the better beats on the wild stream pass along with it's neighboring beat the Litton. Though a blank, a pleasant blank.

1 trout, water v.cold.

1 Trout

J and I fished the top beat for salmon. Gin clear and .7m. No takes and none seen. No trout rising either. Sparse dark Olive hatch at 2-3pm. Wind Easterly and temp 3C. Fished subsurface till 4.25. J landed one at 1lb from the Wood Stream on Partridge/Orange size 14. I had a blank.

2 Trout

Only fished for a couple of hours in the afternoon. Very cold and overcast. I've fished this beat a few times and it seems to get wilder each year. That could be me getting older, of course, but there were certainly more trees down than last year; one of them across what used to be just about the best pool on the beat. Good to be out there and actually relatively sheltered in the bottom of the gorge. But no sign of fish and nothing caught.