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An excellent days fishing with Oliver Birch who taught me some new methods to add to my expanding catalogue of methods. All fish caught on spiders using the dropper method.

9 Trout

Good stretch of the river, especially island bend. Water clear after rain, very brief hatch for 10 minutes or less, mostly sunny day, light wind.

5 Trout

One small 1.5lb put back, wet nymph fly. River brisk and fresh weather a bit chilly.

1 Trout

Blanked. A lot of sediment still in water from rain.

7 x trout 8-15 inches, Hare's Lug and Plover, Dark Moor Game and Deer Hair Emerger. Another raw spring day, strong cold wind, high water and no sign of the sun all through. Spiders were working to some extent though and just one fish on an emerger at about 3 o'clock when a short-lived hatch of dark olives provoked just a couple of rises. This was the only surface activity seen on the day.

7 Trout

River slightly coloured and weather traditional bank holiday howling winds and rain. Nothing rising but managed a few up to 16in on nymphs.

3 Trout

4 x trout 10-13 inches, Waterhen Bloa and Dark Moorgame. Late afternoon session. Last of the dark olives just finishing for the day, but trout continued to come up to spiders for an hour or so. It's getting warmer at last.

4 Trout

Landed 2 but had another on the line too. For the landed fish one was around 10 inches the other around 13. Fast flowing river and cold too but still, fish in the net at this time of year is a bonus! Thanks to Oliver Burch.

2 Trout

Fishing a March brown, with a nymph on a dropper. Not even a nibble. 1 large fin seen but nothing else on a very cold late afternoon.

Lovely weather, one small trout on pheasant tail nymph.

1 Trout