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8 Rainbow trout between 2 anglers. All caught on the bottom. Great day to finish the year.

8 Trout

Beautiful day, around 13c and clear, water was crystal clear and falling. There were some big caddis hatches throughout the day, all 6 grayling caught on small elk hair caddis or upwing drys, nymphs didn't even get a knock!
Gorgeous beat as well, really well kept.

6 Grayling

2 Barbel, 5 Chub

Conditions: Flow was fast with heavy boils throughout the beat. Water colour was good but had an abundance of foam at times. Be wary of large debrie, had several encounters with very large branches and a willow trunk 10 to 12 feet.
Fished with Pellets on running rig.

4 Trout

Despite the lack of fishable swims had a fabulous day in the down stream end of the beat. 6 cracking barbel, 3 small and 1 not so small chub made for a great day out.

6 Barbel, 4 Chub

Arrived at 9-30 weather cloudy but very mild river has dropped considerably and colour all but gone water temp 12.5 deg,caught consistently throughout the day chub weighed 2lb 9oz and 3lb 2oz Barbel were 2lb 7oz, 2lb 10oz, 3lb 9oz, 4lb 10oz, 5lb 7oz, 6lb 10oz, 7lb 8oz, 8lb 9oz, 8lb 10oz,and.8lb 12oz all caught on meat with a ground bait and pellet feeder.

10 Barbel, 2 Chub

Used method feeders and halibut pellet o's. Fast flowing river, overcast around 13 °.

6 Barbel, 4 Chub

1 Trout, 3 Grayling

Beautiful sunny start to the day, 14C as we entered the water at 1130. River was clear and relatively low for autumn, water was 7C. Plenty of fly life about for late october with olives most obvious, we even saw a handful of rises to naturals in the morning.
We fished the deep channel from the start of the beat with heavy nymphs but no fish apparent so we switched to klinkhammers and elk hair caddis with nymphs under about 3ft of tippet once we got to the first set of riffles and some shallower water. A small shoal of grayling lurking at a seam 20m down gave good sport going for the dry and the nymph, plenty of pulls and splashes with three to the net up to about 7". A few meters down from the boulders themselves in knee-deep water a very fine 11" trout took a caddis nymph and a smaller grayling went for a CDC olive.
We skipped over the next stretch of smooth water as we didn't fancy switching back to walking heavy bugs through the channel and moved up to the next set of riffles. The sun moved behind clouds at this point and, as the weather cooled, so did the fish. We had a couple of pulls and one trout of 8" to a small hare's ear, again in knee deep water, but that was the end of it. By 1330 it felt like a different day. We moved up to the top half and prospected through the pocket water with no joy. Finished at 1600.

A lovely day on a lovely beat - the first hour really did feel like summer fishing and we were hugely annoyed that we weren't able to arrive earlier. The only problem was that it made it hard to switch our thinking to winter tactics and we kept on covering beautiful streamy water with dries!

2 Trout, 6 Grayling