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Fished from 2pm til dusk. Few fish rising at the downstream limit of the beat but we couldn't tempt them. 4 taken from the faster water on nymphs. A hatch of upwings with some rising fish for about an hour started at 18.30 and we managed to take the rest on a soft hackled dry including what we thought were the fish who snubbed us earlier! Largest was about 11 inches. A very enjoyable afternoon.

8 Trout, 1 Grayling

A tough day - despite near ideal conditions ! DJ managed to net 2 trout, both safely returned.

2 Trout

River very low, cold downstream wind, mostly cloudy. Small hatch of small upwings at about 2pm, saw no fish rise all day. 2 O/O/S grayling on nymphs from faster runs.

2 Grayling

2 on dry fly, remainder on nymph. Fished the whole water through.

6 Trout, 7 Grayling

River was quite high and coloured barely a fish seen and none caught. Things improved when we made it to the Bell in the evening. I'm sure we just picked the wrong day and will try again soon.

Arrived after heavy rain the previous day/night to find the river a little up and carrying a touch of colour, the weather was now mild and mostly overcast and dry but the river was still freezing cold!
I had bought along a friend to introduce him to river trout fishing and wading as the river here offers very easy wading and has plenty of fish to go at so is a perfect venue for your first attempt.
We made our way to the very end of the beat with the intention of fishing our way back to the car and the Bell, shorty after we started fishing there was a short lived hatch of a fly I didn't recognise which rose just one fish, I find the far end of the beat rarely produces. The fishing was tough from here on with very sparse and sporadic hatchs not enough to bring the fish up. My friend did manage one trout in a pheasant tail nymph and managed to rise a fish to a Klinkhamer which came off shortly after, I had a grayling on a gold headed nymph.
A lovely day despite the tough fishing rounded off by a pint at the Bell to celebrate my fiends first wild brown trout.

1 Trout, 1 Grayling

A cold spring day, no rain, river quite high and fast running. Arrived about 11am initially double nympthing PTN and GRHE on point both size 16. After a quiet start I caught 1 x 10" WBT on GRHE. Early afternoon there was a good hatch of March Browns and I changed to dry fly March Brown and caught another similar size WBT. Unfortunately I lost a few (a bit rusty on the take). During the hatch I saw plenty of fish coming to the surface. An excellent beat.

2 Trout

5 Trout

Did not fish this day.

This turned out to be a beautiful spring day after an initial frosty start. River was a little low but running strong and clear. All fish were taken on nymphs from the faster waters with nothing showing on the surface. Managed nine wbt between 8" and 12" and three grayling, the best of which was a 13" hen found lurking behind a boulder. A very pleasing start to the season on a beautiful beat.

9 Trout, 3 Grayling