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11 WBT caught. Largest was 8", all on Adams Para or green Klink. Many small fish brought up to fly. Good fun! Very overgrown in parts and particularly below the bridge where you park but worth the trek to bottom of beat where I caught my first three fish within my first six casts. Quite tricky access in places as you need to get in and out of stream to get past fallen trees. In that respect not an easy wade. Beautiful day, light breeze, plenty of insect including the odd May. Didn't try Eithrim stream or the Shoemakers pub - saving those for next time.

11 Trout

18 x trout 6-10 inches. Lest I should be accused of telling stretchers, I should mention that, with two exceptions, the majority of these trout were nearer 6 inches than 10. Much nearer. Apart from those which just made it to the 6 inch barrier, some of the pools were full of little fellows of 4 and 5 inches just desperate to drown a Klinkhammer. If you looked closely at those which stayed on, you could see that many of these tiddlers looked more like small adults than parr. Rather like my local Blackpool Brook. My first time on the Upper Cilieni and it's an interesting stream - a proper wild one and a real jungle down at the bottom end; a bit more open above the bridge where you park. Not quite a typical upland stream with a bottom of gravel and some very deep silty pools. Unusual vegetation with water celery, yellow flag on the margin in places and hornwort in some of the still pools. I found lots of shrimp, baetis nymphs, caddis and stone fly. I wouldn't be surprised if there were may fly, given the silty bottom in places, although, at this altitude, they might show later than elsewhere in the catchment. A few olive uprights were about but nothing rising, so I went prospecting with a Tan Klinkhammer. I am sure there must be some bigger fish; doubtless a cannibal trout will surprise somebody sooner or later. A delightful day in a very pretty valley.

18 Trout