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Fished 11am - 3pm. Warm, spring day. Water clear and at a good height. Lots of Grannom around and trout rising when I arrived. Finished up with 4 trout from 8"-16", all caught on dry flies. Two from above the bridge, two from below. Nice beat, although deep wading required.

A difficult day with the wind. Very little in the way of sustained hatches. A few dark olives around midday and that was it. No fish rising. Fished nymphs in deep water most of the day. Missed two very subtle takes. No fish to the net. Lovely beat, but just wasn't to be today!

5 trout, 6oz to 2lbs. A reasonable amount of fish rising with sporadic grannom and olive hatches. 1 trout to an olive emerger, the rest to small flash back nymphs fished under a klinkhammer.

Very little fly life. Very bright windy day. Saw no fish, caught no fish. Beautiful beat which deserves a visit when spring has properly sprung that high up the valley. Was slighly surprised to 'share' the beat with 3 blokes spinning and one chucking a swim feeder in to a deep pool.

WUF note: the owner will be made aware of the other anglers. Please report any suspected poaching activity as soon as possible.

16 @ 5" to 10". What a difference a month makes!

5 x trout 11 - 17 inches, spiders, Super Pupa and Roman Moser's Emerging Caddis. My first time on this beat, which will probably repay taking some time to understand, although I do fish Kemys downstream. Chainbridge has a well-deserved reputation for salmon and the Rock Pool looks like a great bit of salmon fly-fishing. For the man with a trout rod: well, a more than usually frustrating grannom hatch, missing many more fish than hit, the fly coming off in waves until the water looked like soup with the empty caddis shucks. At 5 o'clock, always worth waiting for, the spectacular sight of the females migrating upstream like a column of smoke. I didn't touch the lower pools recommended for trout, due to a persistent half gale blowing up the stretch and a friendly WUF team busily coppicing the bank. Other fauna seen: a very large grass snake swimming across the river, which turned back on spotting me - a sight which used to be common along with the little water vole, but not in recent years. Plus lots of salmon parr, some of which are already showing signs of adopting their silvery smolt coats.

Five browns and one 15" grayling, the latter on a mini bead-head spider - all trout on march brown or klinkhammer. Some olives and march browns, a few grannom hatching, cold downstream wind and sparse rises.

No fish caught. One of possibly up to 2lbs lost after a brief tussle though - on hare's ear. One or two other takes but nothing landed.
Slight lull in very brisk SW wind seemed to prompt a small hatch of LDO late morning but apart from that there was little surface fly life (as far as my limited experience could indicate...).
Great to be out of the water - thanks WUF.

8 Brown 6" to 9".

11 Brown trout, between 12 and 15 inches, all returned. A mix of stockfish and some wild, great hatch of grannom and a steady trickle of march browns, which they seemed to prefer when it came to rises and fish hooked.