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Excellent service, very nice people to deal with.
Fished for 7 hours and only had a couple of knocks in the last half hour. Blanked! Did see someone fall in which cheered me up.

Cold wind blowing upstream and rain threatening but failing to appear! River looking good after some water last week but fishing quite hard going. A dozen fish between us - mostly grayling of about 1/2lb plus a couple of similar brownies. One grayling of 1 3/4lb. All taken on small nymphs fished upstream. Many thanks to WUF team who managed to direct us to the river!

SW: Had 8 Grayling & 1 Trout all on a small copper john.
PT: Had 3 Grayling & 1 Trout on small goldhead and flashback PTN. All fish returned.
Grayling were mostly good sized,in range 10-12 inches with one in the region of 15 inches+. A great day fishing.

10lb Hen Salmon, caught on size 10 Alley Shrimp at top of Abernant Stream. Coloured fish safely returned. Fish caught within 10 minutes of starting to fish, nothing for the rest of the day.

The Foundation were exceedingly helpful and look forward to returning next year.

10 x grayling to 15 inches; 5 x out of season trout to 14 inches. I'm always impressed by the average size here - more than half the grayling were 14 inch fish. Lost one of those big Irfon trout after a couple of jumps - a fish which certainly impressed me. Traditional grayling wets and a few on dries.

Usually fishes well on low water, as today. 12 x grayling, a nice average size, the majority of them over 14 inches and two at 16 inches, on north country spiders. 9 x out of season trout, mostly small, except for an almost black cock fish of 13 inches.

The first time I have fished Mortimers Cross and, with 1.7 miles of bank, plenty to go at. Some oh so enticing pools in the top two meadows - which I studiously ignored as I made my way down to the bottom of the beat on a lovely autumnal morning. Plenty of action as I moved back up river with around a dozen Grayling and 3 unseasonal Trout. Nothing of any great size with the best Grayling probably just about going 1lb. All on the same gold headed PTN.

Other than some small fish - and I mean small - which were taking drys, by the time I got back up to the top two meadows, as far as I could tell, the oh so enticing enticing pools were devoid of fish. Mind you, it was very bright by then with the bottom visible even in 6 feet of water - it might have been a different story if I had fished them in the morning (when there was a bit of cloud cover). A couple of nice Trout from the pool below the bridge before an early finish to beat the Worcester traffic.

1 Chub 3lb 6 oz on Halibut paste & 5 Barbel to 9 lb all on Halibut pellets. (2 rods)

11 x grayling 10-14 inches, 3 x out of season trout 8 inches, 14 inches and 15 inches, all on the bottom with nymphs. Honestly unsure whether the two large trout were MF's stock fish left ftom the summer or not - I presume they stock? Wrong colour for the Lugg, having an interesting greenish patina, but pristine condition and fin-perfect.

Fished from 9 until 5.30 accompanied for much of the day with a cold downstream wind. Had five out-of-season browns with the best about 1.5 lb and 17 grayling - one 16" fish which weighed in at just under 1.75 lb, a chubby specimen indeed, five 14" fish all around the 1.25lb mark, a couple of 13" fish, two 12" fish and the rest around 10"(nothing smaller which may be a concern). All fish in good nick. There were some fish rising on and off throughout the day with a few lulls, very little fly about apart from a few PWs and small olives, but the fish in the margins under the trees seemed to get active when the stronger gusts of wind wrested leaves from the trees, the fish presumably finding bugs at the same time. Water 12 deg C so getting colder and many more leaves caught than fish, so autumn is certainly here! Fish still in "heads up" mode and all fish taken on emergers.