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5 Trout

Very quiet, think water still cold.

2 Trout

First time at Ashford House for some time and, although it’s still early spring, it looks like access to the river has been improved a little. The landowner needs congratulating as the first meadow is looking lovely being full of wild flowers, hopefully this is deliberate and will continue to improve.
Very few fish seen, the first rose during a brief hatch of March Browns and took my fly first time but I missed it. The second was spotted on a shallow glide rising intermittently and took a dry after a bit of stealthy positioning and casting. The resulting fish put up a good fight and was a good size but unfortunately was in terrible condition with sores to one side and a damaged dorsal fin.
Headed home not long after catching as despite being mostly warm and sunny a brisk downstream wind was making presentation difficult.

1 Trout

We caught one lovely trout just over 2lb in weight. There was a great depth of water in the pools and a good constant flow.

1 Trout

2 Trout

With the wind turning to the west I thought it might warm up, but none of it. Wet, cold and no sign of fly or fish. Lost interest after a couple of hours and decided to head home early.

Water a bit too high and the current quite strong, so difficult to wade.

Fish rising but no fish caught.

Arrived around 1100hrs and stayed for 3hrs. It was hard going due to the amount of water in the river and wading was difficulty due to the fast flow.

Still managed to land 3 brownies at the top end of the beat, biggest was around 1lb

3 Trout

Aside from the briefest of MB hatches on arrival at 11.45 the river was dead. No further fly and no interest whatsoever in a variety of nymphs presented in some very fishy looking lies. Not helped by truly appalling wind, rain and slowly rising river. Looking forward to a return in more benign conditions.

2 Trout