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A good day. Water was low and pretty clear. Sunny periods and warm. Quite a bit of slimy green algae. But none the less my colleague ( there were two of us) hooked 10 grayling either 6 to hand, and I managed 6 with four to hand. 3 or 4 decent fish of around 12 inches and all beautifully marked. Good to see the WUF staff checking out the weir.

10 Grayling

After days of low pressure it was a difficult day . There was nothing moving or rising.
Caught 2 small Grayling on a red tag nymph near the end of the session.

2 Grayling

2 Trout, 10 Grayling

Overcast, slight drizzle. River low and perfectly clear. Fish rising, but not tempted by any of my many wet and dry fly offerings! Netted one salmon parr below the bridge on an olive dun.

1 Other

Water level was a lot lower (0.25 at Byton) than the last time I was here when it was really pushing through. This time the pools and riffles were more clearly defined. Started at the bridge moving upstream and after a while came across a pool with some grayling feeding happily at the surface. Managed to catch one of them on a Griffiths gnat and spent another hour or so being given the run around by the others. Tried some other spots and had some interest shown in the fly but no takes. Enjoyable day.

1 Grayling

Quite a cool start with occasional breeze but soon calmed down and warmed up. Patchy rises all day so kept switching between nymph and dry fly. Two modest grayling to a size 18 Griffiths gnat, the rest on copper bead ptn run through the deeper pools. This beat continues to impress; great variety and always challenging.

2 Trout, 10 Grayling

Great days fishing. Loads of grayling about 7-8 inches with a couple of bigger ones. Saw dippers, kingfisher and yellow wagtails. Also signs of otters with crayfish claws etc in the field.
2 anglers fished

1 Trout, 20 Grayling

2 anglers caught and returned 40 odd grayling, 1 oos wbt and 1 salmon parr. Variety of nymphs and emergers used with fish taking freely on the surface even though little seemed to be hatching. Spotted 3 kingfishers but not before they spotted me and flew off down the river!

1 Trout, 40 Grayling, 1 Other

Phenomenal day, love this stretch of river last time I fished it, it was flooding hard. Completely different story today. Tea coloured water good visibility.

Every pool where is was slightly deeper with running water at the head of it was holding grayling mostly all shoaled up. Catching one meant there were another 5 at least m that I could get out of the same area.

I fished dries all day, it’s pretty close quarters so an 8ft 4wt to get in amongst the trees. Pretty much any fly would work as long as it was small. I know cause I was down to my last 18 and 20 by the end of the day, olives, duns, sedges.

Most productive was the pool mid bend, in the upper section, and the section below the cottage. Both of them netted over 10 in less than an hour.

37 Grayling

Low water.
Small black flies successful.
Hard going.

1 Trout, 1 Grayling