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Lovely beat but challenging fishing with no fish rising. Lost one and landed two grayling nymphing in faster water.

2 Grayling

What a lovely stretch. Levels were low and all fish came from the fast, shallow runs. Some big grayling over 1lb and 2 nice trout (2lb). If you're wading - and you'll need to - a wading staff is a must. The amount of bankside vegetation is daunting at first but access points have been cut out. If you can get in (depending on levels) you can work your way from there. Access is easier the further up you go. Sunshine, quality fish, what a lovely day to be out. Most fish on a small red collar jig nymph dropper.

2 Trout, 17 Grayling

No fish, not even a bite. Won’t be back.

nymphs and mayfly

1 Trout, 2 Chub

4 Trout, 3 Grayling

A fairly continuous rise of olives and mayflies until the temperature dropped in the early evening, rises were few and far between though. The river was low but weather conditions were good so we were a tad disappointed with our two fish, the best of which was 10 inches. One of the party hooked a sizeable fish which bore down to the depths and snapped him in some tree roots leading him to believe it could well have been a chub! All fish taken on dries.

A pretty beat that would benefit from a bit of a trim!

2 Trout

Excellent day fly fishing, sunny conditions.

Tough day largely due to the storms in previous weeks, gave it a go but quit when the snow started. Would definitely come back as the river is stunning

Cold and crisp to start, with a bright blue sky but once the sun went in it got cold pretty quickly. I’d recently seen good reports from this beat, but it was a slow day for me, and disappointing in the end (especially as the waders I thought I had fixed still leaked!). Just one 7-8” Grayling (on nymph) early on, and then nothing after that. Interestingly the Grayling was followed-in almost to my feet by a larger WBT. I’d never seen this kind of thing before. I thought that my mind was playing tricks on me, because it looked like I’d hooked two fish at once! The trout, spooked, eventually sped off.

There was a good amount of water, pretty deep in some places. I’ve fished here before and it can be tricky to get into the river. Lots of debris around from last year’s storms I guess, and this years high rainfall. Great to be out on the river again.

1 Grayling

11 Grayling