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Yellow rain warning and rising river levels so I didn't travel and fish

Only spent a couple hours in the end. A bit of euronymphing and one little grayling for my efforts.

1 Grayling

0 caught today but what a beautiful setting, seen 2 fish rise early on and had one take but set far too soon. Plenty of bugs skating around on the water and saw two kingfishers. Water was very low in places and up to waist deep in others.

1 Trout, 5 Grayling

Warm and sunny when I started but got cooler as the day went on. River still low and clear and the water surprisingly cold. Very little insect life or fish showing. Found a couple of fish rising around the middle of the beat. Only activity in one pool and it didn’t last long, managed to get one WBT of about 12” on the dry fly.

1 Trout

This nil return comes with a measure of sadness. I love this stretch of river, but it is now in a sorry state. Very low, slow and tinged with green by a thick fringe of algae. It was a cooler day and the water temperature was below 20c. We dutifully fished dry, but in the knowledge that any fish which came to the surface would probably be looking to give himself up. Mercifully, none did.

I should note that there were campers in the field by our stretch of the bank, presumably there with the farmer's permission. This lot didn't bother us, but the same might not be true of others.

4 Trout, 2 Grayling

River unsurprisingly quite low and very sunny, fish pretty spooky, although a few visible of a good size (around 12”). Lovely day on the river but no catch to show for it. Access is near downstream end, so tricky not to spook out runs on the way up - would be great to be able to get in nearer the upstream end. Lovely spot though.

9 Trout, 1 Grayling

1 Trout