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Found the river slightly up and coloured but fishable. Started at the bottom of the stretch and between 11am and 12pm witnessed a phenomenal hatch of sedge (grannom?) in one pool. The water came alive with several sizable fish taking the flies with reckless abandon but could I catch one? No. I drifted every sedge imitation in my box over their noses but not an offer. Other than that, I fished the whole stretch up and down and without a touch, nor did the other angler on the water that day. All in all a frustating day compensated by glorious sunshine and scenery.
WUF Note: Trout feed on the grannom emerger and usually ignore dry sedge flies.

1 Grayling

Lovely day out on beats 1 (morning) and 3 (afternoon). My first time out with a Salmon rod, so not anticipating to catch, and in that I was not disappointed, as I didn't catch. But I had a great time, thoroughly enjoyed the beats, and look forwards to catching a Salmon next time! Many thanks to Terry for excellent advice.

Lovely day; fairly warm and mostly sunny. No trout rising despite a good hatch of olive duns. Two small trout, one on a beadhead PT the other on a dark olive spider.

2 Trout

On spinner. The range is surface. Or just 4 secs count-down. All of them were released.

6 Trout

Nice weather but the fishing wasn't so good. No fish caught, no hits or follows. Only saw one rise the whole time I was there. Very unusual for this beat as its normally teeming with fish. Maybe its the time of year?

Still had a good day out in the countryside and peace and quiet!

Fly life a bit sparse and fishing a bit slow, at least on dry fly ... maybe should have tried harder with nymphs. All fish taken on a size 16 olive pattern.

3 Trout

No fish caught. One big trout seen.

Two of us spent most of the day fly fishing though no fish seen or caught by either of us. Weather was glorious and great to be on the water. The bottom of the beat below the bridge is a lovely stretch of fly water, though good access for fishing from the bank on the upper and middle pools as well. Someone else fishing on the beat had caught and safely returned a cock fish est. at 30lbs from Horseshoe crib. Caught on a black and gold devon minnow.

We fished the Seven Sisters beat on April 19th. We took advantage of the 3 for 2 and think this was great value.
We landed and released a 23lb fresh springer (39 inches)on a red flying c and lost another of similiar size right at the bank.
We only covered a small section of the beat and where as some of the bank was unfishable, it all looked like really attractive water. Some of the bottom pools where we fished had nice access points.
We saw numerous other fish on the day and can't believe that we didn't actually catch more.
We stayed at the Royal Lodge Hotel which is just yards away from the start of the beat. The hotel and staff were great and the general manager of the hotel Graham who is also attached to the beat showed us the beat the evening before. This was a great help and we knew exactly where we were going from we woke in the morning.
All in all a great day out and looking forward to getting back soon.

1 Salmon