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We caught five grayling, which were all about 1lb, using weighted bugs and nymphs. The river was clear but quite high, as a result we were not able to access all pools we would like to have.

We look forward to fishing this beat again when the river is a little lower. MP & RJ.

5 Grayling

Used duo nymphs but nothing caught, or seen. Rod Rings freezing up, temperature -2 and foggy (not quite what was forecast !!!) The water was gin clear and there was very little breeze. We really struggled today, perhaps someone could put some advice on site to help us regarding flies to use in these tough cold conditions, despite all the negatives it was still so much better than working.
Thanks to W&U and the Colonel for making this lovely beat available.

River still high and pushing through hard. Fished French nymph only connected with 2 Grayling

2 Grayling

River was a little bit high (0.65 on the Cilmeri gauge), weather was dry yet cold and at times there was bright sunshine, northerly wind blew up at times but on the whole not as windy as expected. All Grayling were caught on nymphs: shrimp patterns, pheasant tail variant and the salmon took a gold head gold ribbed hare's ear.

1 Salmon, 5 Grayling

River running over .8 when we started having been 2.5 two days ago, we expected it high and cloudy , it was high but clear
minus 2degrees when we started, bugging for grayling. all fish on pink heavy gribs/ shrimps
hard day with only a few dropped fish, smashing beat which I'm sure would be very nice in lower water

5 Grayling

upstream nymphing, very cold ice in sheets on the field, we had one each within 1/2 hour of starting but then struggled all day

2 Grayling

All fish caught on nymphs

5 Grayling

River running hard and water very coloured particularly from the side stream which was very red and silt laden. Only a single fish taken which was returned. Lovely beat which I am sure would fish well given better conditions

1 Grayling

Minus 1.5 degrees and the river running high but clear, so it took a while for things to get moving. In common with other recent reports nearly all grayling were caught in the faster moving water rather than on a deeply fished bug in the slow stretches, nevertheless they all took a tungsten headed soft hackled fly fished below a klinkhammer. Great to see a number of salmon moving through and I hope they escape the attention of the poachers who left a small mepps hanging out of reach in a tree half way up the beat. Best fish was 15 1/2 inches but most in the 10-12 inch range and very lively strong fish. Incidentally I fished the bottom beat of the Cammarch Hotel the following day and fishing was equally good until a sharp rise and colouring of the water put paid to fishing at about 2pm. Again several salmon from medium to large size were crashing around.

9 Grayling

Tricky day, everything felt just right but I struggled to find the fish. Fantastic beat.

5 Grayling