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strong SE wind, using dry fly, several takes but all missed.

5 Trout

5 Trout

1 to the net for W.H. from Craven Arms plus some snap offs due to dodgy fluorocarbon. Nice bright day but windy. Fish rising then moving on, not holding station.

1 Trout

No fish seen

4 Trout

Brown trout.

1 Trout

Had 1 trout on double nymph rig. What a fish. Well worth the hard work.

1 Trout

First time to Buckland and enjoyed myself enormously. The high bank makes easy river access limited to a couple of areas, however I could see where, with a little more persistence you could explore much more of the river from them. I fished in two stints: 10am to 2pm and 7pm to 10pm. A small fish from the bobbly water above Beech pool on an Olive emerger in the first session. There was a hatch and rises in progress at 10am. Mainly olives with the odd mayfly. It petered out at about 11.30. The evening session seemed similar at first, a light hatch and intermittent rises. By 8.30 pm though, the wind had dropped right down and there were many more flies and big gloopy rises rang out in the dusk. Finally I covered a riser with a small pale watery that I assumed was a half pounder. It took and I soon realised it was much bigger. It did all the things you dream of in the closed season. Leapt, made my reel spin, tried to get into roots and more. I’m not great at estimating weight, but I estimate it at 2.5 pounds but I’ll remember it as three! A similar sized fish broke me 10 minutes later. I won’t be fishing here again on less than 5lb tippet… A great evening fishing and a PB wild trout after decades of fishing. Can’t ask for more than that!!

2 Trout

Single rod fished. Varied day with warm sunshine followed by cloud and then rain. Cooler and windier in the evening than Friday so not such a prolific evening rise. 3 BT again caught, all on emergers.

3 Trout