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First outing of trout season and to be honest I think I was a bit optimistic. Conditions and water clarity,levels were good, but water temp was bitter. sporadic hatch of ldos at about 1ish for a hour, but no fish rising or seen. Fished for a couple of hours but to no avail. Another couple of weeks of warmer weather need this far up the river I think.

Absolutly nothing, no rises

River up a bit, lot of fly life but I didn't see any rises at all, gave up after 3 hrs

All conditions pointed to a good day, but it wasn't to be. Plenty of fly life, but not one fish seen rising . Three fish taken on beaded nymphs

3 Trout

4 on nymph

4 Trout

A nice few hours in the morning.. 3 to olive sedge

3 Trout

I've never caught on my three previous visits to this beat. It's so picturesque here I booked it again for a first-time visiting guest. He said it 'was perhaps the most beautiful place I have ever been'.... skunked again.

Included in the fish caught were largest 3 lb 3 ozs , also 2 lb and 2x1 lbs. A memorable days fishing on a superb beat. Beautiful surroundings, will be visiting again. Method used wet fly (silver bodied march brown and march brown variant with a red rib.)

6 Trout

Just the one fish to hand today but bounced off a couple of good sized fish and where all up in the wooded section which is a fabulous section and just to be in there is a joy . River was very quiet with surface activity which kind of figures with the time of year , was hoping for late evening spinner /sedge action but not today. River bed is pretty greasy in places , had a few interesting moments! A nice number of fish on the go up top just above the mini waterfall (see pic)as you go in to wooded section , midway along the pool length and rising under the trees .Missed a couple in fabulous run below waterfall.
Besides trying to get one or two of the very good fish in the net that reside up here the mission was to soldier on up to the Senni confluence and have now sussed that out and here's how if its of help to others - hop over the wall at the road bridge across the river where there is a garden gate (padlocked) and follow the garden hedge to the right a short way(had a good chat with the house owner here as did think I may be encroaching on his garden but no problem at all ) and very shortly there's a set of stone steps down to the river . Go down those and then its flat bedrock with very little water running over (at this low flow) then walk up till you get to the tail end of a big long deep looking pool (could be interesting if there's a hatch on) and there you can scramble up the bank in to the long field .Follow the hedge line (skinny water for most part here above deep pool ) and then there's a hedged 'compound' with a set of large locked gates as you approach and about 25 yards before there you can get down the bank ok . Fabulous looking big pool here, verrry fishy and deep and with good flow too, flat bedrock slabs on the bank side so you can work up the side of the pool to next good pool above . That's as far as I got and only had time for few casts a the light as going and bit of a trek back to car park but looking at Google earth it looks like there's some interesting water around the corner and confluences can be good ! Next time.

1 Trout