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A typical early season day on the river. LDO's and a few March browns coming off from noon until 3pm and the odd fish rising in a slightly cautious manner. All fish took a quill bodied deer hair emerger size 16 with the biggest a plump 15".

3 Trout

A few LDO and the odd march brown. I saw 3 or 4 tentative rises in the afternoon but didn't manage to temp any trout.

The river was clear but pushing through a little making wading a little more precarious than usual. A modest LDO hatch and a few short flurries of March Browns had a handful of fish rising. I lost a good 2lb fish on the spider but then got a 2lber on a CDC Dun. A couple more to the Jingler followed. By 2pm, the flies were gone and the sport stopped.

3 Trout

8 Trout

The conditions seemed more or less perfect: overcast, quite warm, hardly any wind, a wide variety of flies coming off the water, river perhaps a little low but still plenty of flow. But there was simply nothing happening. We tried everything, all the surefire nymphs and dries, and fished almost all day. But between us we had three splashy and uncommitted rises and two plucks at the nymphs. There was hardly a movement on the surface all day – just the very occasional rise, which was hardly ever repeated. I managed to catch one small trout. All a bit mystifying.
It was still good to be there though. What a beautiful beat.

1 Trout

My 4th trip here and different every time. Water very low and clear. Being an idiot I thought I was good enough to catch the few fish rising on the exposed, shallow and very sunny flats. Took 5 hours to quit that fantasy! Late pm it clouded over and I moved up to faster water where I caught 6 fish that went like demons and restored my self-esteem a bit. One fish to size 16 black magic nymph, otherwise Soft hackle dry fly did the business, 2 fish taking from sub surface after dry fly overwhelmed, so in similar conditions I'd probably try leggy wet flies but ran out of time today. Fish up to 16". Few par nibbled when I tried nymphing. Still fairly new to big rivers, still so much to learn. Lovely place, wading fairly ok today - but only because of how low it was.

6 Trout

Grhe but had two missed hits on a dry.

1 Trout

River perfect despite heavy rain all day. All fish taken on dry fly, fish to 1.5lb, no fish taken.

10 Trout

Dry fly thunder storm with heavy rain all morning most fish taken last thing one at a pound and a half.

7 Trout

Heavy rain during night of 9th September. Water was unfishable