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A beautiful sunny day with a strong breeze at times. Guided by Oliver Burch and most fish caught on parachute adams or similar. Fish rising between 12noon and 3pm and ranged between 1/2 and 2lbs. A thoroughly enjoyable day ably assisted by OB.

6 Trout

Very bright and very windy day which made it feel quite cold at times, despite it being around 13C in the lee of the wind. Casting a dry fly was extremely difficult and meant waiting for lulls in the gusts. In any event, despite the decent number of upwings on the water from 1030-1500 there was almost no surface feeding.
The river was low and extremely clear. Both trout were caught on very heavy weighted nymphs in the deep, fast water. About 7" and 10". The one fish that was spotted reusing on the flats went for a stripped quill emerger and a small olive but failed to get on the hook. It looked to be very small though.
A couple of groups of walkers stripped off to swim in the middle part of the beat, which felt brave with my thermometer telling me the water was 9C...

2 Trout

1 Trout

NOT MUCH LUCK

1 Trout

This is a stunning beat with loads of trout and stunning wildlife including sandpipers, hundreds of sand martins, curlew, and cetti's warblers.

I didn't fish much as I was teaching my 10 year old son. He loved it and cast his first ever dry flies to many rising fish - they rose well between about 12 and 5 in the sunshine despite a cool easterly breeze. He had lots of rises and hooked and lost 2 fish one of which was well over a pound.

4 Trout

4 Trout

slow to start off, but picked up after 1pm.

4 Trout

7 Trout

3 Trout