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Lovely day, spring sunshine, which should have warmed the water a bit. A very brief March Brown hatch, started at 11.30 and lasted about 15 minutes which livened things up, but that was it!

A lovely mild and calm day augured well, but very low water may explain the relative lack of fly - just a few trickle hatches of March Brown and no LDO evident. Despite this, a few decent fish did come to the surface. Five very chunky trout between 13-18” were caught and several others lost.

5 Trout

Decent hatch of march browns, LDOs and brook duns from 11am for a bit. Though no fish hit the surface.

2 Trout

1 Trout

We dodged the NE wind and went “dry or die”. A very short window with some good but difficult to cover fish. Pleased to find one that obliged. Plenty of Kingfisher and Dippers spotted. The river is waking up, but slowly!

1 Trout

1 Trout

High water. All other conditions acceptable. Weighted olive damsel fly. Upstream drift method. Will be a great stretch of water with lower levels.

1 Trout

Spent a few hours from mid morning to mid afternoon hoping for a small hatch of some kind but nothing. I tried wets, dry dropper and still nothing. River was a tad high and the sun was very bright. All in all my hopes for an early season fish were shot.

Some nice pools and the section below the bridge looks like a good spot when the fish want to play. Lots of the lower beat had poor access to the water.

2 Trout

The water was high and coloured, and the current was strong but still managed a few fish.

5 Trout