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Nothing caught

Spent two days on this beat, fishing the lower section (in between car park 1 and 2). The 1st day was the most successful, with both trout being caught including a nice 2lb. Missed several bites between the both of us as well.

Whilst fishing for trout in a deep area, a very large fish took a size 10 shrimp, before I knew it, I was down to the backing and he was far off in the distance and snapped at the leader. My line was wrapped around the rocks, resulting in some chunks being taken out. He jumped once in the distance, and looked like a sewin, but I understand this is quite rare, so perhaps a salmon. It was a complete shock, I just hope the poor guy doesn't still have a hook in him.
I routinely fly fish for carp, so used to fighting large fish, but I've never ran into something this strong.

Strangely, the second day, we did not see a single fish.

The conditions were great, the beat is really varied, with some lovely large deep pools, although, it was fairly shallow in most parts. Wading was quite challenging and casting was difficult at the lowest section.
The water was clear, and the waterfalls were amazing.

We did come across a petrol lawnmower in the river that was leaking, so removed it, however, there was a considerable amount of petrol around it, with some left in. Natural resources have been contacted.
Appart from the above issue, the river was very clean with very little waste.

All fish were released.

2 Trout

Water was nice and clear no wing to speak of but sadly no fish with sore foot left at 13:00.

The wind had verred to a southerly, and the water was a good level & very clear. Fished from 2.45 and saw nothing until about 7pm. Then hooked two and caught one of about 2lbs, all on a nymph near the tail of broken water runs.

1 Trout

Lovely 4 hours on river, saw 2 otters, and caught 3 trout to 2lb on copperhead nymph. Plenty of water in river, sunny with little wind.

3 Trout

Fished the bottom half of the beat from 5.30pm to 8pm. River had fallen about a foot
Saw no rises, but the the otter that swam within a rod’s length of me may have had something to do with that. Fished a black Klinkhammer with a gold head hare’s ear under it through the faster water, but no contact with with any fish

Still a beautiful evening and pleasant end to the day

Fished from 5pm to 7.30pm the bottom half of the beat. The river was high. Saw no rises, an only the occasional BWO or sedge. However I did have one take on my soft hackle dry fly. Felt like a good fish, but we were not connected for long and the fish threw my barbless hook.

Beautiful looking water.

12 inch trout taken on a nymph. Lost another. Couple of rises to a dry early evening. Very little surface activity from fish overall. Windy but better water conditions than earlier in the week. Mergansers and a cormorant.

1 Trout

Blank. Only suggestion of fish was a pair of mergansers. Didnt see anything break the surface all day or evening. Conditions not great. Water very discoloured and seemed quite high.

Beautiful day but no fish. A few occasional rises but no take.