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Beautiful setting with some very nice scenery. Variety of water with some nice glides and fast runs including broken water. Very difficult day with water levels low and gin clear water. Only managed two trout between us. Lots of potential and some good fish seen, just couldn't get near them.

2 Trout

1 Trout

Kingfishers, dippers with chicks, kite and buzzards but no flying insects and no rising trout. A beautiful beat

2 trout ... both prospective with a dry ... very slippery river bed

2 Trout

Fantastic stretch of river but a downstream breeze, incredibly bright conditions and low water, not to mention my own incompetence, loaded the dice against me. Very good levels of fly life much appreciated by the nesting Dipper, Flycatchers, and Wagtails

River low and clear with very little hatching. All fish caught using long leader contact nymphing. Largest fish was just under 19”.

6 Trout

Blank! Connected briefly with one at start of day but that was it. A few fish rising but as soon as line on water off they went! River was low and clear ...

3 Trout

Beautiful wild and secluded beat. Water crystal clear. Series of shallow pools, runs and riffles, including some spectacular low waterfalls. Wading is extremely difficult because the stones, boulders and rocks are as slippy as ice - no exaggeration. I wore rubber soles and could only stand very precariously, I went down numerous times on to knees and wrists, and it would be easy to get a full soaking (or worse)or damage rod/reel. I started fishing at 1000, which was too early given the conditions on the day, the river only really came to life in the afternoon. Until fish started rising I concentrated on running nymphs through riffles at the heads of pools, and hooked two fish on a heavily weighted pink tag, but the hook pulled out on both. From about 1800 fish, some of them big, were rising consistently in most pools, but they spooked very easily in the shallow, clear pools and I could not get them interested in the large variety of dries and emergers that I tried. I think I was probably lining fish, even with a 12 ft leader, I might have been better with something lighter than a 5 wt rod - but there are some good fish there. With hindsight I should have focused on tiny dries later on in the day, and ultra stealth. No fish landed, which seems crazy, but I am happy.

Fab weather. River in great nick, strong and gin clear. Wading with caution. WBT caught between us from 11AM til 6PM. Sizes 8” to 12”. French nymphing in faster water at bottom of beat and near waterfall. Single tungsten PTN did the job. Fished right at the bottom. Beautiful beat.

6 Trout