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3 Rainbow Trout caught using worm as bait.

3 Rainbow Trout caught using worm as bait.

4 Rainbow Trout caught using worm as bait.

Water was quite low and not many fish seen. No success with wet flies but noted a couple of rises which proved successful - two nice brownies about 12 oz each, taken on a black ant with white wing.
Wind became too much of a problem on my light tackle after midday and decided to call it a day. Lovely stretch of water - crystal clear and easy wading.

13lb Cock salmon colouring-up caught in Maddox on self tied Tosh variant on size 9 silver Salar hook. Conditions sunny and breezy at 15 degree C. Strong fish put up a good fight that holding in main stream for a good while before coming to net.
Six Chub from 2lb-4lb caught on fly (Pot-bellied pig) in period of 20mins fishing through the Island while salmon fishing.

A lovely day in beautiful sceenery. 9 brown trout between us on dry and nymph. Between 6" nd 12" in size, all returned. NW wind made casting tricky, sunny and fresh. River was clear, fast and fairly low. Highlight was being startled by a huge 4ft long fish swimming up a deep channel under my nose! Only to see it more clearly a few meters away as an Otter.

Lovely days fishing. 5 Barbel between 4/6 lb all on pellet.
Despite low clear water and loose weed and bright sunny day, fished fast deep water and the barbel all came in the afternoon..
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One trout caught and returned, about 10". A beautiful little river but there is a lot of Himalayan balsam on the banks.

Three of us fishing for two days with one rod each managed 15 barbel between 5lb and 7lb 12oz and three bonus chub to 5lb. We fished the first three swims which were all good fishing. The bottom has alot of snaggy rocks close in but further out in the middle seems nice and flat and can be fished easily. The banks are high and quite steep and could be slippery if it rained but it didn't so we were ok. The first day was mostly cloudy and produced fish at various times. The second day was sunny and produced fish early in the morning and in the evening. All in all great fishing.

Not so much a slow start today as a nil start. River now quite low and clear couple with a cold NW wind. By lunchtime after trying several spots I had caught 1 chub. Don came down at 5pm and advised me to move again. Even then initially I had no success but as the sun set I ended the day with 4 barbel caught in half an hour. No big ones - but 3 were 7lbs. Without Don's advice I wouldn't have caught any!