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Arrived to find the river slightly higher than I anticipated and rising, but we decided to crack on anyway. Stuck at bugging the whole day, first fish was an out of season WBT followed at regular intervals by a few grayling up to 12". All taken on a pink shrimp deep.

1 Trout, 6 Grayling

Day started badly after I was nearly hit by a farmer driving a pickup truck like Colin McCrae over the bridge forcing me to dive out of the way bashing my elbow and hip in the process!!!! Chap didn't even stop!
Anyway, picked myself up off the floor, composed myself and carried on. Fishing was hard, very few fish about. Had 6 on various heavy tungsten nymphs but just couldn't get in the zone after my near death experience so called it a day after 3 hours and headed home.
Searched the local farms for the pickup to no avail.

6 Grayling

13 x grayling 6-12 inches, 8 x out of season trout 6-10 inches. No large grayling today, but mainly shoats of 10 inches or so. On the last day of October, I can't believe it's so warm all the time. Nights seem to be 14 or 15 degrees while days are 17 or 18 degrees. Water still slightly high (it's hard work wading up the Lugg with the water foaming round your knees). Started as usual here using heavy nymphs with most fish taking a Pink Shrimp. It takes the whole of a short winter time day to do this beat thoroughly with nymphs. Stopped for lunch at the bridge, noting the parapet capping stone marked 1844. Shortly before dusk, I found a whole glide with a population of rising grayling. Glad to find a tapered leader in my pocket, I took off the nymphs and made up a dry fly leader with a Grey Duster and caught the last 5 on that, which made a very happy end to the day. Before driving home, a pleasant chat with the owner who was working on her cottage while owls hooted all around us.

13 Grayling

A testing day with 6" more water on Byton gauge than I would have liked. Water was coloured and full of leaves. Fished with two nymphs and ended up with 4 grayling ranging from 4" to 12" and 2 oos wbt of 10" each both of which spent more time in the air than the water. Bite detection a challenge - must have hooked 50 leaves over the day.
Probably last chance to fish this season - roll on the Spring!

2 Trout, 4 Grayling

Hard going after the first frost of the year. Ended with 3 grayling.

3 Grayling

All fish were caught Czech Nymphing (biggest 8oz) from the various deeper pools of this beat. All fish returned.

3 Trout, 5 Grayling

Wonderful afternoons fishing, best trout 14 inches, best grayling 12 inches. Fish feeding on the surface all over the place. Lots of takes, very hard to hook, most fish had on gold head hares ears. Beautiful beat, we will be back.

9 Trout, 8 Grayling

1 trout and 1 grayling on nymph. I grayling on dry klinkhammer. River very low and lots of leaves falling in breeze. All fish under 1lb and carefully returned.

1 Trout, 2 Grayling

10 Trout, 16 Grayling

A late afternoons visit to a new venue for me, down what seemed a long and narrow winding road, and the sound of running water on a lovely day, just makes you think sometimes!
Oh yes, the fishing, I wandered down to the start of the beat, and as normal managed to catch a few trees with my eagerness, and started to think about what I was doing and then got into the groove. Lots of fishy looking swims, but not many rising, so I started on weighted flies, but alas, no joy.
I stopped at the bridge and had a think, and in the distance there was a couple of rises, I couldnt tempt these two guys so kept wading upstream, I was just negotiating a fallen tree, and spotted anoter rise the other side of the tree, now that was not an easy place to cast to. On went the home tied dry fly with a nice hackle, one cast and nicely positioned, and YES one 7" trout hooked, what a delight. Can it get any better, worked hard for that one, one my own fly, perfect rise and take.
It's not how many for me, it's the pleasure of being out and about in such amazing places. WUF, thanks for the maintanance done on this beat, it made things really easy to negotiate.

1 Trout