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A strange sort of day. With the river still at low summer level, I thought that it might be difficult. So it proved; up river de bonne heure but, runs that you would put your house on failing to produce (or producing very little). Conscious that the beat was fished yesterday, I wondered if that was the problem (equally conscious that the problem could be the thing on the blunt end of the rod). Nay bother, in turn, two fairly non descript pieces of water just below the weir produced half a dozen Grayling a piece. More or less consecutive casts; mostly fish in the 8-10 inch bracket, but including a couple at 12-14 inches. All on a PTN. No surface activity at this stage but, mid morning, with the sun overhead, spasmodic rises. Switched to a dry; but this only resulted in a run of micro Grayling

Less productive downstream in the afternoon; where, with the river so low, there is not a fat lot to go at

My "other" was a Minnow - caught fair and square on a Size 14 Endrick Spider - and only landed after a titanic struggle

4 Trout, 20 Grayling, 1 Other

Two out of season trout - about 10 and 12 oz. One on dry fly and one on nymph. Two grayling, each about 6oz - both nymph.
Warm sunny day but only a few fly around, and only the very odd sporadic rise.
Very beautiful valley.

2 Trout, 2 Grayling

Fished from 8am till 4.
Lovely day on a great beat.
All grayling between 3 and 10 inches, 20 of them only about 3 inches all from same pool, trout approx 6 inches.
All fish but 1 to small ptn fished duo below a klinkhammer, which accounted for the trout.
Spoke to someone staying in the cottage and they told me that they had seen mink hounds on the river. There was certainly evidence of dogs everywhere.

1 Trout, 29 Grayling

3 x trout 10-13 inches, 10 x grayling 10-14 inches, Pink Shrimp, Tungsten Hare's Ear, F-Fly. First a cold mist, then a glorious sunny autumn day in what must be our loveliest valley. The fishing was initially rather slow (I started with nymphs due to the cold morning) but perked up when I switched to dry fly mid-afternoon. I met my friend the resident otter twice.

3 Trout, 10 Grayling

Amazing beat, simply stunning venue. Nothing to show for the efforts apart from a few missed opportunities.

2 Trout

Rewarding day on a challenging beat.

1 Trout, 9 Grayling

Lovely morning with 6 grayling (6-10inches) on a mixture of nymphs and drys

6 Grayling

River still running quite low. A good hatch of Olives with Grayling rising. Six Grayling brought to the net. Black Spider and GRHE. Great beat!

6 Grayling

Fished from 8 until midday, started long line nymphing and picked up a few grayling in the deeper pools then fish started rising so I switched to a dry fly and had a lot of fun sight fishing to targeted fish in the low clear water. The trout seem to have gone into hiding.

1 Trout, 8 Grayling