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Enjoyable days fishing at the top end, caught chub up to 4lb and a 8lb barbel last cast. Caught all fish ledgering using pellets and meat. Sorry to say but the river looked dead, no weed to speak of, and was low and brown compared to previous years

1 Barbel, 6 Chub

2 Trout

4 Trout

both caught end of ripples on nymph very little rising and not interested on what if offered

2 Trout

Dry flies and bugging

4 Trout, 7 Grayling

4 Trout

2 Trout

1 Trout

1 Trout

The river was still at a height that was a bit high making dry fly presentation challenging … and I could not wade the river to access the upper part of the beat.

There was a fairly constant hatch throughout the day with olives, olive uprights and yellow Sally stoneflies keeping the fish looking up. Fish came all through the day and James landed all of his on one single fly … a grey dun parachute. Best trout and grayling about 17”.

At close of play I waded up the beat… there was a fish rising under the trees on the near bank in about a foot of water. I dismissed it as a tiddler and moved on. James came up half an hour later and it was still rising but more enthusiastically … head and tailing taking hatching duns. He saw its back and dorsal fin … a huge grayling, at least 3lbs! He had the sense to change his 3lb tippet for the strongest he had … 3.5lbs! As soon as he got the fly somewhere near the fish it walloped it …. And charged out in to the gutter at the centre of the river. Despite having changed to uprated tippet once in the faster heavier water in the gutter the inevitable happened …. Ah well next time.

12 Trout, 3 Grayling