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Persevered with nymphs despite the temptation to get the trotting gear out of the car! Still refining my technique but managed two 9 inch fish. Gauge was at 0.58m. Family of otters living in the Grandstand Pool. Salmon swimming under my feet.

2 Grayling

12 x grayling 9-17 inches, 11 x out of season trout 6-18 inches, long trotting. Level 0.70 on the Cilmery gauge, slowly dropping and only slight colour. Out of season trout are still being a nuisance. Since the high water, the presence of numbers of salmon is very evident.

12 Grayling

8 Grayling

Similar conditions to yesterday, grayling still in same area. Leaves a bit of a problem later on in the day. However, two excellent days fishing.

3 Trout, 12 Grayling

River reasonable height fished mid/lower section only for very short period no fish caught, plenty of debris floating down river after a number of rain shower. One section of the river I was surrounded by salmon either jumping or breaching at least 6 one occasion 3 jumped at same time and another 4 further down stream. Need to improve on my attempts to catch Grayling.

First time grayling fishing trotting with maggots. Both of us caught fish on and off throughout the day. River in good condition.

3 Trout, 10 Grayling

The river was up but running clear, so there was some hope. The early frost and mist kept things quiet until late morning when the fish started to move to heavy nymphs.By Mid day the sun had burnt through and there were a few small upwing flies hatching. The flies stayed mid river and my eyes are the wrongs side of 50 so I couldn't tell you what they were. The fish however were looking up and happy to rise to a size 16 winged grey spider. To be able to cast a dry fly to rising fish in November always feels like a bonus.To do it on a beautiful stretch of water made for a memorable day.
Many Thanks
LB

1 Trout, 6 Grayling

River running at .35m. Trout were aggressively taking everything that went near them often making it hard to get to the grayling (of which we landed 4 of a decent size up to 2lb), good news for the quality of the fishery of course. A surprise salmon of about 4lb took an age to land on a light tippet, returned of course, and looked like it had been in the river for a while. Another thoroughly enjoyable day on this beat that ended all too quickly.

1 Salmon, 15 Trout, 12 Grayling

Grayling to 17" and 2 x oos Trout

2 Trout, 10 Grayling

This has got to be one of the greatest and biggest beats for grayling I have ever fished, within the first few casts I caught a small grayling and a larger one was landed a few casts afterwards. throughout the day I landed 2 small grayling 3 medium sized ones at around 20cm 2 large grayling at around 30cm with one being slightly larger than the other and one good brownie that was about 35cm. I fished a 2 fly Czech nymph rig the whole day with a pink Czech nymph as the point and a size 16 tungsten headed pheasant tail nymph as the dropper, all the grayling came to the dropped and the trout came to the point fly. All in all this has been one of the best days fishing I have ever had, I broke my Pb for grayling twice and also for trout.

1 Trout, 7 Grayling