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Nice final visit of the season, although I couldn't find any big trout, or even medium trout. Caught four small ones as the evening went on, mostly on ptn.

4 Trout

4 Trout

With chocolate brown coloured fast flowing water after heavy rain the previous day, I was only able to safely fish about 50 metres of the lower section of this beat. Most of the beat has very challenging access, lots of overhanging trees, slippery rocks underfoot, wading out away from the bank is necessary but not safe if you can’t see your feet in 2ft of water. I almost gave up but was glad I didn’t as managed to catch 3 trout late in the afternoon by frequently changing the fly on the same 10metre section of water where I’d seen a couple of rises.

3 Trout

1 Trout

Flooded

River like liquid chocolate after rain in previous 12 hours. Waited until pm and tried a duo with sparkly nymph but no takes. Early bath

3 Trout

Haven’t been to this beat in a couple of seasons and arriving to a coloured river I thought I had totally mistimed it … caught over 25 lovely trout on spiders and dries. The extra water encouraged the fish to feed on & off for most of the day.

20 Trout

Conditions seemed perfect but there was little surface activity despite good mixed hatch of fly. Had to work very hard to find and fool some fish. Expected more activity into the late evening but the evening rise never seemed to really get going. Took a few trout during the day on sunken soft hackle patterns and was able to target the few risers in the evening with single #18 midge parachute. With so few fish moving and only sporadic rises it was difficult to find a regular feeder to target. In the end a few to the net on #18 parachute midge and super long fine leader. Tricky stuff.

7 Trout

Fish moving