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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

4 Grayling

A lovely beat with lots of varied water. We fished dry fly and nymph and took fish off the top as well as from down below. Fish were moving to small Stonefly and Sedge on the surface and small orange shrimp patterns fished deep tempted the Grayling. The river was low and clear but fished well. A lovely day.

2 Trout, 12 Grayling

DC & GC had another day on this nice beat but the fishing was really hard going due to a very strong and gusting wind. No sign of any surface activity so nymphs used. GC had 4 grayling and DC 3 grayling up to to 10inches. The 2 other were small wbt.
Many thanks to the Colonel and W&U.

7 Grayling, 2 Other