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Ski thermals, hat and gloves order of the day - very cold bleak day. Started off with klink on dropper and small tungsten nymph in Lady Alexander's Catch - nothing - which has been the story for me all season.
Moved up to Abernant Stream and had 6 grayling between 12" and 16" - all took the klink. One was at the entry point at the tail of the pool and five came from the glide swinging across from the new croys.

6 Grayling

Grayling to 17".

1 Trout, 4 Grayling

Not much happening at Abernant today only a few rises in the time I was there and very little activity nymphing. All trout and grayling took weighted nymphs fished duo. Grayling to 14 inches and trout to 13 inches. there was no hatch at all and very limited fly on the water. The flow was not my cup of tea today and levels need to rise to get it moving. A lovely beat none the less and will give it another go with another 6 inches on the gauge

6 Trout, 9 Grayling

Enjoyable day on Abernant. A blustery upstream wind may have slowed activity but we caught fish throughout the beat mainly on bugging tactics. Mostly small 9-10 inch grayling
Two at 16 inches and a brown trout of around 2lb.

6 Trout, 9 Grayling

Fished Czech nymph for most of the day and,despite a very cold early morning, fish were feeding.
Late afternoon I switched to float-fished maggots and took the best of the grayling, up to about 1lb.

4 Trout, 6 Grayling

Perfect conditions on a beautiful beat. Despite employing all known tactics upstream, downstream, dry, nymph, wet, teams etc we only managed 1 x 10" oos trout and 1 x 12" grayling. In hindsight we maybe missed a trick by not putting enough colour on the nymph patterns. Great to get out of the office to enjoy Red Kites, Buzzards, Kingfishers and the lovely herd of black cattle.

1 Trout, 1 Grayling

Three salmon, 18lbs Cock fish, 12lbs hen fish and 6lbs cock fish! Brief period of activity or aggression before a rise in water levels. A fantastic session.

3 Salmon

Most fish found in the middle of the beat around the faster water. Black pennell worked for most and spiders for others. Deep fished nymphs seemed to be uninteresting.

4 Trout, 5 Grayling

River was wonderful but fishing hard. Adam Fisher was with us for first three hours and was left scratching his head as well. We fished from 11:30 till nearly 5:00.

2 Grayling

River low and clear and the weather was beautiful. Mild with blue skies and light winds. We fished the entire length and picked up fish to 1.5lb throughout. No big shoals but ones and twos here and there. Lovely day.

30 Grayling