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Cold day. Very brief rise about 1pm, lasted all of three minutes! The occasional rise thereafter. Tried prospecting with dries but no luck. Gave spiders a fair go and tried nymphs but not a sniff all day.

Great evening. loads of fish. ptn and grhe then olive quill.

9 Trout

caught one by the bridge must have been 1 & half pound on a nymph

1 Trout

Last minute booking. Upstream cold wind. No hatch seen. No fish seen. Great to be back on the water.

3 Trout

Fish taken between the 2 bridges in the morning, sadly by lunchtime heavy rain had set in and was forecast to stay.

2 Trout

Air and water were both 4C, cold, no insects or fish, sadly.
Still, had to do the first day……..????

The beat has been reduced in length removing the lower pool which I was planning on fishing in the evening. The expected hot weather swimmers took the bridge pools and several more swimmers wandering down the beat looking for their own pools were asked to return to the top pools. Fish were caught on tight line nymphs in the pocket water ranging between 10” - 17”. I would only fish here in cooler / wetter weather.

9 Trout

When I arrived the river was low and clear with little sign of life, add to this an annoying down stream breeze and bright sunshine and I didn't fancy my chances. Didn't have a touch for the first hour, and was beginning to think I was wasting my time. There was hardly enough flow to move the nymphs, which kept getting stuck on the bottom.

Finally I got to some faster water and lost a good fish, due to thinking the fly was snagged, and didn't lift properly. A second run down resulted in a cracking 14" trout. The rest of the fish were all around 10-12", and all except one were taken on a black nymph, the last on a clinkhammer. Lost a further two and missed a couple of takes too.

Turned out to be a good day after all.

6 Trout

Howling wind, low water, and bright sunshine made for a really tough day.

1 Trout