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River very low. Nothing rising despite abundant insect life throughout the day. Nothing caught despite 3 runs at the stretch using a variety of nymphs and wets. Well maintained and should be great fun when the water gets to a decent level (and the fish return?).

Hard days fishing. Not much happening plenty of black gnat, and the odd olive. A dozen trout to half a pound on a mixture of dries and nymphs. One tiny grayling.

One canoeist even on 'drought flows'! Heard my first Cookoo of the year.

We only managed to start around 2.30. With only sporadic rises I elected to fish the fast water with klink and dink. After a couple of hours I had 1 smolt and an 8oz trout to show for my efforts, both of which took the small nymph.
About 4.30 it started to cloud over and I came across a quality fish rising in a fast gutter. After wading into position to cover it, it stopped rising so I waited for 10 mins for it to rise again. First cast was perfect and it took the klinkhammer immediately with a great boil...and then snapped me. Turned out it was not the 2lb point that failed but rather the water knot joining the 5 to 3.5!

An hour or so later we came across a pod of quality fish rising steadily in a pool tail. After a half a dozen fly changes and countless seemingly perfect presentations they were still rising steadily and I was about to tear my hair out. I turned to my friend and said, "this is ridiculous". Immediately a great neb appeared and sucked in the small black klink I had on. A mad rush upstream saw the reel scream and finished in a great leap that tested the 2lb point to the limit. Somehow we stayed in contact and a few minutes later a superb 21”er slid over my net.

Didn't cast again, just sat on bank taking in what had just happened and then walked back to the car to earn some brownie points by getting back in time for kids bathtime...

Another cracking day. The fishing was hard work again. Morning spent on the lovely upper beat, regret not spending longer exploring this section of the river because it looks extremely fishy. My friend and I caught a number of small Trout (less than 6inches) with only one sizeable fish lost by my friend. Afternoon was more successful, I had 5 nice brownies of around 1lb or so and my friend had one of a similar size on a dry in the evening. Good evening rise but the fish were reluctant to take our offerings! Many thanks again.

Again, extremely low and clear. Brief hatch at 6pm of Yellow dun, and small olives.
Caught one 12oz brown on 14 tin head pheasant tail nymph at rockpool, other rod caught two small trout around 5oz in woodstream.
Weather fine and little wind. Fish rose for only half hour around 6.30. No late rise.

Nothing. River very low. Nothing rising despite abundant insect life throughout the day. Nothing caught despite 3 runs at the stretch using a variety of nymphs and wets. Well maintained and should be great fun when the water gets to a decent level (and the fish return?).

1 catch, returned. Small brown trout. Saw plenty of shoals of young fry from 1 to 3 inches.

1 Brown Trout 6oz caught on a GRHE returned. Very low water hot sunny day. Had about five takes in total. The Upper beat is a lovely beat.

6 brown trout to 1.5lbs (all released) plus a couple of dace in 4 hours of fishing. All fish caught on cdc emergers on the flats or small gold headed nymphs in the faster water. Got broken off by something very large in the tail of the Mill Race which came up and took a klinkhammer before tearing off at a rate of knots. Not the easiest day's fishing but overall a very enjoyable afternoon.

Mixture of trout and grayling to mainly nymphs. Best trout around 30cm. Rising fish seem to be taking black gnat, a few sedge about early in the morning. Interesting days fishing fish mainly in the faster broken water.

Lots of salmon smolts still evident in desperate need of some water to get them to sea!!!