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10 Grayling

12 Grayling

River still very swollen after recent heavy rain - intimidating when you are used to small rivers. Hard frost, overnight snow and temperature didn't get above 3 degrees all day. Fished luncheon meat on the bottom in hope of tempting a barbel but no luck. Beautiful day and location though. Definitely worth taking binoculars as plenty of wildlife and birds to watch while fishing.

River high and cold, only fishable down the edge. Not much fishable bankside cover. Chub saved the blank

1 Chub

Nothing caught

4 Barbel, 3 Chub

1 Pike

16 x grayling 9-11 inches, 1 x out of season trout 12 inches, trotting. River high and clear and air temperature v cold. With a wind it would have been most unpleasant, but the air was still. Black Mountains spectacularly white today. First part of the session wasted with icing rod rings and searching for grayling where they weren't. Eventually found a pod of modest sized grayling and the air temperature crept up a bit.

16 Grayling

What a difference 7 months can make! I fished this beat back in June 2017 and had my best ever day of fly fishing, with 50+ fish, and Grayling virtually throwing themselves onto my hook! This time it was a different story... zero fish... not even a sniff. I'm not sure what I was doing wrong, but the fish weren't interested in any of my attempts.

A beautiful, but very cold day, the ground stayed frozen in the shadows all the whole time. I walked all of the beat, trying out various sections that looked 'right', and places I have caught before. The river was high (around 65cm on the Lugg gauge (I know this is the Arrow), with a good strong flow to it. A nice bit of colour, but relatively clear. I tried fishing sections in deep shade, then full sunlight, and then when it became overcast. Tried various nymphs of a Klinkhammer indicator, but it was not to be my day.

Very cold and difficult conditions. Banks very slippery. Lost a monster pike but had a ten pound barbel. Pete the fishery manager was excellent and spent a lot of time showing us round

1 Barbel, 2 Chub