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Absolutely stunning day on a glorious beat, river low with bright very warm sun all day.
Arrived late morning, no great hatch going on but a steady trickle of a variety of insects throughout the morning brought up a good number of trout, I managed 3 on small dries before things slowed around lunchtime as the sun was at its strongest. Things picked up again in the evening and I took another nice fish before leaving. Plenty of missed takes and one or two lost fish made for a memorable day's fishing.

4 Trout

1 Trout

Water very low and clear

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7 Trout

River which had been low and clear, was up just a touch and with a touch of colour, small hatch of olives on and off between the showers, fished subsurface nymphs, 4 fish best one well over an estimated 2 lb.

4 Trout

1 Trout

2 good sized trout first thing, but then conditions got a lot harder. Sun came out and water was super clear, and river very low and slow. Beautiful as always.

2 Trout

Stunning day on the river, small hatch in the morning, a few trout responding to the hatch. River as low as I have seen it and crystal clear made for hard work, F J had 3 fish on dry fly- F fly I think and I had 3 fish on bugs, all caught in the morning.

6 Trout

10am start due to the cold morning. River low and clear, which made the fish very easily spooked even in my stealth mode. 7 fish all approx between 13" and 14". 3 before any hatch on upstream nymphs, 3 on the duo and 1 solitary fish on a dry fly with plenty more spooked or missed/lost on cdc dun pattern. Good hatch of ldos and Brook duns from about 1ish till about 3. Plenty of fish rising in some really hard to reach locations. Good day. Now for a rain dance.

7 Trout

First visit here, river very low, overcast, occasional light rain and a freezing northerly wind, downstream of course!
Walked the entire length of the beat stopping occasionaly to run gold headed nymphs through likely looking spots but didn't catch. I did see a huge trout while standing up on the bank looking down into the water though which was a fantastic sight.
A few olives started to appear, only in ones and twos but I did find a couple of fish rising but trying to cast into the stiff breeze wasn't fun and the the cows turned up for a drink so I moved upstream. I soon found more rising fish and the hatch was now in full swing but casting upstream to them wasn't possible so I carefully made my way up to them and sat on a rock under tree and watched a number of fish taking flies regularly only feet away from me. I managed two on a Greenwells Glory dry tired by myself and missed a couple more, things went quiet than, the drizzle started and it was getting very cold so decided to call it a day.
Cracking beat, lots of very fishy looking water, will be back in May.

1 Trout