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Blank. This beat is often kind to me in the early season, but not this year. I never saw a fish.

No fly, no rise, no fish. Caught fine ladie's, seven speed bicycle in good condition.

4 trout caught - 8-10 inches.

First time on this beautiful beat, and I look forward to returning in May. An unseasonably warm and sunny day, and a decent hatch of LDO's and March Browns in the middle of the day, but sadly, I did not see a single fish rise all day, and after several changes from nymphs to dry to wet, there was not the remotest hint of a fish.

3 trout all on dry olive patterns. Good LDO hatch 11 - 1. River low and very clear.

A beautiful place but I found it quiet in relation to fish activity. 4 grayling caught on a brown klinkhammer down off the planks at the lower end of the beat. Around 1.5lb each.
Not much activity in the evening when the magic hour brings them all up. It was made worse by my clumsiness falling in and getting soaked too! A wading stick is a must, along with spare clothes!

Great day but no fish.

Cracking Day weather wise but fishing difficult, hooked 2 fish on tungsten grhe in open water in first 6 casts & saw nothing for rest of day. Appeared to be decent hatch but saw only 5 rises all day. Easy fishing looked great. "must practise more". Surprised to see cattle standing in river no fencing.

Despite the warm, sunny weather there was little fly life apart from the occasional olive. So only 3 out of season grayling (10" to 12") on Kite's Imperial and snipe and orange spider. All fish returned in the water untouched.

None caught but one large and powerful trout lost after three 20 metre runs. Hooked at 1210pm on a dry Parachute Adams at the start of a sparse and short-lived olive hatch.
Air temperature 17C, water temp 8/9C. Sunny, cloudless sky, light east breeze. River low and clear. Decision to use light leader with nymph suspended from dry fly cost me the big trout as nymph probably snagged a rock (both flies were broken off)- you live and learn!! Disappointingly, in view of warm air conditions, very little activity from flies and fish for most of day.

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