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Fished dry fly with brown klinkhammer Duncan's pool, not alot of fish rising. Fished until 8.30.

1 Trout

Good warm day

18 Trout

Very tough fishing today. Not much hatching - the odd mayfly and caddis but just not enough to get the fish feeding, very few rises or other signs. Those we did see were mostly small fish rising to tiny flies - we only had about a dozen bites all day and most of those were on tiny patterns, often in slower water making presentation difficult, and difficult to hook - only one small trout caught. Had one other take during a brief mayfly hatch, was attached to a very good fish of 18" plus for nearly a minute, when suddenly the hook came adrift - not a good hook-up. Frustrating - one of those days! Still lovely to be out, this is a beautiful beat - thanks!

1 Trout

Sunny day with a light easterly wind, river at a nice level.

Lots of insect activity all day, but very few fish rising.

Spent too much of the day trying every dry in the box, before switching to the duo and catching a few.

3 Trout

Warmth at last ! And Penpont looking lovely in the sunshine. Plenty of surface activity when we arrived but it soon petered out despite the fact that there was a smorgasbord of flies hat hatching for the fish to dine on.

We had 4 to hand, several more avoided the hook . One of the 4 was lassoed rather than hooked … best was a lovely 18 inch fish.

Bird life was wonderful too … along with the usual river suspects we saw yellow hammer, tree creeper and nuthatch

4 Trout

Hot and sunny day. Trickle hatch of various species but in small numbers. Very few rises. Had a few on nymphs in the fast water

3 Trout

Fished upper oxbow section only. A long walk from bridge parking on a hot bright day & then required careful surmounting of barbed wire to gain access. Three pools & skinny water, but a pleasant place for lunch. Occasional rises in deeper shaded spots & missed a couple of takes to dries.

Short afternoon session today, was supposed to be a recon mission but tempted by some nice pools and runs at the top of the beat I didn't explore much. What I did see was encouraging, will come back for sure. Car park might do with a trim otherwise excellent access with pipe on the barbed wire noting access points, nice touch. 1 WBT on small nymph, klink and dink, no rises.

1 Trout

All fish taken on fly and returned, mixture of black gnat, olive and sedge patterns fished dry.

8 Trout

4.2 kg. Fly. 1ft 6” river level. Warm evening. Caught at 20.15.

1 Salmon