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Lowish flow. One barbel of 4.5 lb, a chub of 1.5lb and the rest < 1lb. Mixture of legering and trotting to one rod & swim. Other rod and swim blanked. Lots of geese. Noisy abstraction pump spoilt the aesthetics.

1 Trout, 3 Barbel, 1 Chub

One 3 inch brownie on small nymph.

1 Trout

Very hard day with the fish seemingly grouped together in one paticular section of water which we couldn't get to from our bank.
JB blanked and RG caught a few minnows and chublets on the float but nothing of any size. Weather was bright and sunny and a nice piece of river with an easy stroll across the level field to the river bank.

River low again after recent rise.

4 Barbel, 6 Chub

Mist turning into very warm day. Plenty of natural fly. I saw a few salmon on the move, but no trout, though other fisherman did. I found the bank below the bridge difficult, though recent work has been done on it.

A lovely warm and still, initially misty then sunny autumn day with the water quite low at 0.36m. on the Cilmery guage. Hardly any insects though, apart from the odd small olive, sedge and stonefly, and presumably few terrestrials in the foam as well, given the few rising fish. However most of those that were seen to rise were caught and just a couple which weren't were also tempted to get off their backsides and head upwards. Tried duo, single emerger and some bugging but the nymphs were all declined. I suspect in fact that the fish were just not "on" today. The few that were, proved to be four trout, the best of which was a lovely two pounder, and eight grayling from 14- 17", the best of which weighted just under 2.25lb. - all in great condition. All fish caught in the foam lanes on either HE or dark olive emergers. But where are the smaller 8 - 12" year classes that I used to catch here? Maybe FEBs and the otter are having a say there? Lots of otter prints today. The good news is that I also caught about six 4" graylets and what were almost certainly others were rising. A tough but great day, in a lovely place.

4 Trout, 8 Grayling

River was 0.4m on the gauge. A couple of salmon showed but I think they were long term residents. Was fly fishing all day. Lovely spot to have a day's fishing and not disappointed to blank considering the conditions. Will look forward to returning.

River too low, very good day though. This was our first visit to the Whitney Court fishery and we struggled to identify the beats adequately. No salmon were observed the whole day, however small trout were in abundance and produced some sport.

Very difficult fishing compared to recent visits to Home Beat. No joy in prolific swims such as Swan Crib and Island Pool, so fished the cattle drink opposite the Legg Crib on the Courtfield bank. I took four barbel from this swim between 6-8lbs 6oz in the afternoon. Will fish Courtfield on next visit to explore this section of river more as access to banks is not so limited. 3 salmon seen in Ferry Pool around 7:00pm, all doubles.

4 Barbel

No fish caught, no fish seen.