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Good days fishing, river slightly up and tinged with melt water. The air temp had soared overnight to a barmy 5 degrees though the fields next to the river were still frozen solid. Had a grayling first cast with the nymphs just dangling downstream Excellent start.

We had plenty of action but seemed to slow up a bit in the afternoon. Dozen fish each best 42cm. Great to be out after the freeze! A few olives did struggle off and we did see a bat at dusk.

Highly recomend the Riverside Inn for a stay over and excellent food.

The weather was surprisingly warm and the whole beat was fishable. Had two grayling one very small and one very nice one at 17 inches, both on heavy nymphs.

It had been about 18 months since I last fished Lyepole and fortunately nothing had changed. A wonderful beat with relatively easy wading and a good head of Grayling. Fishing heavy bugs/nymphs, I caught over 20 fish, mostly Grayling, best fish 14" and a few out of season Trout. A good days fishing in the quiet Lugg valley at its Autumnal best.

Early frosty start, fish were active from first thing.
Good numbers of grayling up to 40cm on various nymphs, sizes 14 and 16 mainly, nice buggy looking hares ears, and pheasant tails etc. A few olives hatched during the day but nothing rose to them. Great little beat with tight accurate casting in places to target every little hole that holds a fish. The day before the fishing had been spoilt on the Lugg being quite coloured from the rain on Friday night. By the Sunday however the worst of the colour had subsided and fishing was once again much better

A couple of things to be wary of:

1) For a fly only stretch there’s a lot of spinners (mepps) in the trees

2) Be very careful of the cattle! I was chased by them twice during the day, the second time down the river channel which wasn’t that amusing. Finding what I thought was sanctuary on the opposite side of the barbed wire fence in the field, I was more than a little alarmed as they displayed show jumping style skills and quite happily hopped over in my pursuit.

A lovely day weatherwise and with a few nice fish the disapointments of two previous wash-offs were forgotten. 5 good size grayling, with the largest a memorable fish nudging 2lb made for a fantastic day. The others were around the 8-10oz bracket. The fish were taken on a variety of GH nymphs. Also half a dozen very small fish, I guess weighing about an ounce were encouraging for the future. 1 single brown trout was also landed. If there's a more inviting place to fish on the Lugg, i've not yet found it. Lypole in the evening sun was stunning.

In marked contrast to the previous day's report I only managed to hook 2 samll Brownies (having used every technique known to man) on PTNs. Perhaps the sultry conditions were playing a part?

This was a return visit after being washed off a week ago. There was still a little bit of colour in the water, but the river was in lovely condition. Fishing different halves of the beat, we were both treated to the company of otters during the morning. Add in several kingfishers and dippers and the odd deer crossing the river, and you've more than enough to make for a really memorable day quite apart from the fishing! This is a really delightful stretch of water. But there were fish too: between us we had nine trout, the best of which was just over a pound, and four grayling which included the undoubted catch of the day - a lovely fish of a pound and three quarters. We also had a little dace from the bridge pool. A terrific day all in all, only marred by the loss of a landing net. So if anyone finds one...

Awesome fishing, river low, and sparse hatches of flies during the afternoon. Couple of dozen grayling nothing much bigger than a pound. and a dozen or so trout best 2lb on a Klinkhammer. Fish came to a range of pheasant tail type nymphs, Klinkhammer and Olive emerger CDC patterns. Wonderful experience of an otter fishing the same pool at the same time, seemed to be totally oblivious to me and came within a 10ft or so. still caught fish in the pool after he went through!!! Lots of other predators on beat, you may have an issue with Cormorants (*2) and goosanders. Large flock (12+) birds in the upper area of the beat.

Caught 5 grayling 8"-12" and 3 trout 8"-10". Most fish taken on a gold head p.t.n. and some on a klinkhamer special. Had a number rises to the dry fly but the fish were taking short or missing altogether, hooked 6 which came off. All fish returned.

Did not fish due to heavy rain.

But anyway, thanks for providing the facility to book online in advance. I am not familiar with the area and it is brilliant to be able to plan a small river beat in advance rather than having to find a random local shop (usually closed!) to buy permit or obtain map of water etc.

Hope to get a chance to visit the beat next time I'm in the area.