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Plenty of life hatching but almost no surface activity and no fish caught. Lovely day though in a beautiful spot!

4 Trout

The sun's out
The rods are out ...

1 Trout

7 Trout

Beautiful stretch of water

Made our annual visit to Bugeilyn this time with a third angler who was new to fly fishing. Despite the northerly wind direction the weather was dry fairly warm with sunshine for most of the afternoon.

Initially with little wind the fish were right in the margins inches from the bank feeding on small black flies with several caught on silver invicta and small tadpole flies. Around the same time last year we noted dead frogs in the lake and reckoned tadpoles could be on the diet.

As the wind increased the fish move out and most were taken just under the surface mainly on small black flies and the tadpole pattern.

Great opening to our season especially as we had not been able to do any winter grayling fishing due to high river levels.

As we left the lake we believe we saw a pair of hen harriers flying around the new barn by the derelict farm house.

35 Trout

5 Trout, 5 Grayling

We fished for an hour above the road bridge, never having used a flyrod before.
Didnt anticipate a result!
Sun came out and the casting was impressive.
Then we caught two fish!

1 Trout, 1 Grayling

4 Trout

1 Trout