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Warm sunny day, river low and clear but not exceptionally so. Fished midday to 7.00pm. 3lb chub from end peg on left bank, on double sweetcorn.
Chub of 4lb, 2 x 3lbs and 1.5lbs from middle swim on left hand bank, on rolled (3 swan link) garlic spam. Couldn't bet a twitch on halibut pellet.
Thought I was only one fishing, but someone else was. Far bank in full sun, and first swim favorite for family picnics, and dog walkers.
WUF Note : Foy Bridge fishery allows 2 individuals. A second angler was booked in that day.

5 Chub

Promising water level, but a bright day. Path to water overgrown. Otherwise enjoyable fishing on the fly.

Fished mid afternoon, nothing caught.

This beat is now so overgrown as to be almost unfishable in summer, blocked and slow moving pools are heavily silted with considerable brown algal bloom clinging to the stones. I spent so long working my way through obstacles in the hope of a fishable pool further up there was not time to try the middle beat, which was probable a better prospect.

2 Trout

Did not fish.

Hot and very bright,caught fish early in the day and later in abernant stream when in partial shade. 8-10in trout to downstream wets and salmon parr to duo in Edw pool. Beautiful beat, always a pleasure.

3 Trout, 3 Other

22 wbt to 9 inches. All caught on a dropper fished under the dry fly. I had a few splashy rises to the dry but no solid takes - goes to show how effective the NZ style dropper can be compared to a single dry. The river was easy to access albeit small and shallow. Improvised casting was required! The deeper pools all held a good number of fish.

22 Trout

Water a bit lower than I usually fish this beat at, but running clear. A few fish rising as I started so went for the dry fly which produced 4 smallish fish. In the afternoon I decided to fish Czech nymph style that brought 3 lovely 18" fish to the net from the fast deeper water with many missed and plenty of heavy nymphs lost. Good day.

7 Trout

Difficult conditions with gusting wind increasing in strength all day, managed 2 grayling biggest 12" and a couple of small trout all on dry fly.

2 Trout, 2 Grayling

Surprisingly good day for August. Perhaps the rain earlier in the week helped. Good water levels and clear. 3 good sized fish hooked in the flats above the bridge. 2 freed themselves before reaching the net. A nice 13"wbt made it into the net. Duo proved effective with the nymph doing the business. Safely released. Heavy hatch going on most of the day. Mostly small olives, but some blues; although the fish were not going mad for them. A few fish rising higher up the beat but spooked as soon as an approach was made. A couple of good views of a Kingfisher completed a very pleasant day.

1 Trout