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Just some small fishes, the best trout was around 12 inches.

10 Trout, 1 Grayling

Beautiful day, beautiful beat but no fish! Plenty of life around, mayfly and and hawthorne rising but very little movement at the surface. Saw a fine sized salmon around 10lb leap straight up out of the river as we arrived and then again as we came back after lunch! Wonder if this is a strategy from the WUF to keep us keen?
After only a couple of nibbles with single imitations on the surface we tried out the Kink and dink for the first time and within 10 mins I pulled in a baby brownie from the kink and a large 1.5 - 2lb grayling on the dink both successfully sent back for another day!
Otherwise, not a nibble, though this could have been caused by the over energetic first castings of my 8 year old son scaring all life away?

1 Trout, 1 Grayling

Nil return

Two trout caught and released. The strong downstream wind made presenting a fly upstream well almost impossible on most of the water. A couple of sheltered spots at the bottom of the fishery saw one of the few rising fish caught on a Greenwell dry and another caught on a weighted Hares Ear. The wind dropped off at the end of the day and transformed the river totally making it look a good place to fish, a real shame it was so late in the day.

2 Trout

No luck with Salmon. Switched to trout when they started rising to a small hatch. Landed one. Missed others. Nice day.

1 Trout

Began fishing around noon with a cold wind blowing upstream. River still low and few fish showing despite sporadic hatches during the afternoon but managed 6 between us on emergers and nymphs in the faster water.

5 Trout, 1 Grayling

Too bright, too cold, too low, too clear. Ineptitude may also have been a factor. I note that previous correspondents have generally been catching off the top. The cold wind put paid to any hatch; with all fish taken on deep-fished nymphs.

5 Trout, 1 Grayling

It was one of those perfect days. A crisp frosty morning quickly turned warm and sunny. We only fished from 10:30 until 14:00 on the very bottom part of the beat. Numerous grayling were caught in the last riffles and trout caught in the upper rapids. One salmon parr also caught (a first!). There was a sensational hatch at one point where for 15 minutes the water was alive with mostly grayling taking march browns. Most grayling caught on small green french nymphs and the trout on large stone fly nymphs. We sadly had to leave at 14:00 to catch a flight.

6 Trout, 11 Grayling, 1 Other

Icy cold wind blowing up river made for a short fishing trip. No fish showing, one grayling caught and returned and a pull from another on two down stream wet flies fished across and down, A beautiful location but needs more sun than today had to offer.

1 Grayling

Lovely spring day though casting tricky at points in the gusting wind. Two small trout and four Grayling, one a good size. Little rising but six fish caught plus others missed. Signals the river is gearing up.

2 Trout, 4 Grayling