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hot day - Caught the tail end of a rise in the morning and caught one 30cm brown trout between the first two riffles below the bridge, on dry fly.

feeding stopped in the heat and I came back for the evening, lots of fly life but no luck until the last bit of light, at the bottom riffle, 30cm brown trout on a big caddis.

Beautiful stretch of river with lots of fish and insects, plus dippers and kingfishers!

all fish returned

2 Trout

1 Trout

1 Trout

We were hoping for more water in the river and a bit more cloud cover, but we were blessed with a very sunny day ... At least there wasn't much wind!
Fished beats one and two in the main. No sign of salmon but plenty of other fish seen. Two cheeky accidental trout caught.
Osprey, Hobby, Sandmartins seen. Woodpecker and cuckoo heard.
Good company, lovely day on the water.

2 Trout

2 Trout

A 2-hour afternoon session on the Rectory in bright and quite blustery conditions. Landed one nice trout of 14" on a cdc olive emerger plus three smaller ones. There were a few olives coming off and a few rises in the flats but unfortunately I had to leave at around 4pm just when it felt like an evening session would have been much more productive.

5 Trout

Still low and clear, warm & bright day. Arrived at 12, with rise in full swing (should have arrived earlier), to emergers I'd say. 4 fish, 13 to 16 inches, on PTN and dun (14) later. Not much hatch, or rise, after 1pm. 1 salmon smolt (5 inches, silvered). 4 ospreys

4 Trout

Lovely spring day,hardly need to say water very low and clear. Fished about 3 hours from the bottom of the beat back to the farm. A few olives hatching and occasional rise in a back eddy. Managed 8 trout on nymph with a couple around 10 inches.

8 Trout

Just me fishing. River looked rather low for spring, despite rain a few days ago? Made for tricky fishing in the daytime with clear water and sunny conditions - trout very spooky. Very few mayflies hatching today, but there were quite a few midges, some very small sedges and a few spinners - managed to get three on small dry flies (missed a few more bites especially from the small ones!), the other came on a nymph. Three biggest were 12-13" fish, all returned as usual. Lots of sand martins back, lovely to see. On the negative side - masses of Himalayan Balsam and Japanese knotweed shooting up again everywhere along the east bank!

4 Trout

3 Trout