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Not the warmest of April days. Allocated the top beat in the morning. I must admit I find the very deep gutters and pools on this stretch difficult to fish unless fish are on the surface, which they weren’t. However, there is a nice riffle at the top which can provide a good couple of hours fishing, usually productive, but not on this occasion.
Switched to the bottom beat around 2 ish, caught an 8oz fish, followed by a 12oz fish, both in the faster water on a gold beaded nymph. Quite cold by now, so thinking about the long drive back to Kent, at which point I hooked a very nice fish 2½ to 3 LB. took me about 20 minutes to get it in. In attempting to carry the fish back out to the faster water to revive it, I slipped on a rock and took a dip. Decided to call it a day.
The odd fly coming off but nothing that could be described as a hatch.

3 Trout

Near perfect day. River level very good, wind southerly, birds singing, flowers flowering, flies hatching, trout rising (well a few anyway). Best fly, GRHE nymph. But a dry Kites Imperial got one on the surface when there were a few Large Dark Olives about.

4 Trout

One of those strange fishing days. Beautiful day, river clear with good flow, steady hatch of various flies but nothing rising. Tried a range of options but river just seemed dead. About to give up at 4.30pm when I saw one rise in one of the last pools and promptly landed 2 at 10" and 1 at 12" on a sparsely dressed march brown nymph under a klink, all in 10 minutes without having to move. Then missed a splashy rise to the klink, and all went quiet again. Can't explain what happened, but came home happy!

3 Trout

Fished for a couple of hours to 11.30am. Cold and windy, nothing moving. Tried upstream nymphing for nil.

Fished this for the first time on a beautiful sunny spring day. River was a good height and clearing. A few insects were hatching but nothing rose to them. Four trout to a small gold headed PTN with the largest 12oz. A few hours work to tidy the river of winter debris would make dry fly fishing easier but perhaps that is cheating?

6 Trout

Really enjoyed this beat.
1 wbt of around 7" but missed a couple more bites. Saw plenty of fish, nothing bigger than the one I caught but loads of fish rising.
Only trouble was the rising fish had perfected the art of disappearing as soon as my clumsy feet entered the water!

1 Trout

Rose 2 but failed to hook them. Very few risers - lot of water inaccessible on account of steep banks.

Both fish around the 2lb mark.

2 Trout

Fished with dry fly over lunchtime. Despite a few hatches, no fish showing.

Lovely strech of water for a couple of hours fishing. Could do with clearing up routed trees from the main pools.

1 Trout