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Good fly fishing conditions.

4 Trout

River still above normal height, fast and just over the cribs. To fish midstream meant big feeders (4-5oz) and moving around to find a fish. Enjoyable day but fish hard to come by.

2 Barbel, 2 Chub

Cold water and the fog didn't lift so the promised sun didn't arrive. Fished the whole beat with a weighted nymph but no sign of any fish.

Sun shone - river clear and fishable but first visit so can't compare. One trout in very good condition, about 3lb. Caught on retrieving klink so mistook for minnow? Talked with the friendly helpful landowner Mr Jones. Seems land management (conifer plantations/climate change is creating challenging summer flows. So, rather than permanent population of trout of various sizes/ages, main quarry could be larger fish?Lovely spot. Thanks Mr Jones.

1 Trout

A fresh but dry day with the river fining down after the recent floods. Catch wise very disappointing with the only fish to show were one barbel (7lb 9oz) during the morning caught on double sweet corn and after moving up stream a chub around 3lb late in the afternoon on meat.

1 Barbel, 1 Chub

We decided to move downstream today where the river was slower and deeper in the hope of locating fish. As we approached the area we were met with the nice view of a dorsal fin of a barbel breaking the water & proceeded to see a fair few fish throughout the day at least giving us some hope. Unfortunately we made no early breakthroughs and it wasn't until 5.30pm when my rod butt flew up. As I caught the rod and tightened up it immediately broke. Upon retrieval I had lost my feeder and hook length with the stem of the feeder left above stop. I presume the hook length got lassoed around feeder and caused the break when the barbel took. My mate was having better luck and 30mins later landed a nice specimen just under 9lb on pellet.

1 Barbel

2 trout of around 10 inches caught on a March Brown dry fly. Although very few March Browns were hatching despite good conditions for them, small olives were the dominant species and fish were free rising surprising for an extended time up until 3.30pm. River is crystal clear.

2 Trout

Weather sunny and bright,water clear and fast (and cold) only 1 small grayling and a salmon parr caught all day. Not much fly life about and nothing rising.

1 Grayling, 1 Other

5 x trout 8-11 inches on a Tungsten Hare's Ear. Despite warmish weather, wild daffodils etc on the banks, trout in this upland stream were still in winter mode - lying on the bottom of the deeper and slower pools, most reluctant to rise. So it was all about weight and I used a much heavier nymph than usual to get any takes at all. Nothing hatching today, but I'm sure it will improve shortly.

5 Trout

A lovely day on this equally lovely river. I caught two outstanding fish in beautiful spring sunshine; one chub of nigh on six pounds and a grayling just on the two pounds mark. I fished with a variety of baits in the same spot as the rest of the beat was still very muddy and the river still quite high. So a three shot paternoster with bread accounted for the chub whilst the grayling took a double maggot. Will come again but now it's on to the fly for me until summer.

1 Grayling, 1 Chub