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River very low, plenty of fish rising as Mayfly stated hatching. Missed and lost a few unfortunately left most dry flies at home in my other bag.

2 Trout

6 Trout

Bright sunny day with a gentle upstream breeze, river very low and clear.

Started at the bottom of the beat and saw fish taking regularly off the top. These were very gentle rises, and at first I thought they were small fish, however I got within about 30ft of a 12 inch fish feeding in about 10 inches of water. I presented 10 different fly patters to this fish, ranging from size 14 to size 20 and never once did it move off station to even look at the fly. I also tried sub surface flies, and the lightest tippet I had with me not slightest bit of interest.

As I was directly below this fish I tried to spot anything in the water that it might be taking, but I really couldn't see anything, even when kneeling and putting my hand on the bottom for some contrast.

There were two hatches during the day which brought on some sporadic rises, and I did manage to get three takes, but missed two and lost one.

All of the fish I caught came from the faster runs on the nymph, although I did lose a particularly large fish that I thought was a rock when I hooked it. I'm guessing me trying to flick the fly off the "rock" didn't help the hook hold!

beautiful and sunny day. managed to catch 7 brown trout using copper nymph. all very small between 0.3-05lb. Lost 4.

7 Trout

8 Trout

Very low water, lots of small caddis and spinners present in the evening but largely a slow day. Very hot and bright sunshine made the fishing difficult.

4 Trout

Never seen the river so low, fished for about an hour then decided it wasn’t happening and not in the best interest of the fish so left early. Lots of herons and cormorants around taking advantage too!

Fish rising all day, not interested in variety of dries but were more than obliging on the nymph. All taken Euro style, with probably another 10 not landed. Great beat with large variety of water. Mainly on PTN variations, with a small hotspot.

22 Trout

3 small trout landed and 3 lost. Plenty rising in the slow water.

3 Trout

Tried both dry fly and sinking nymph , too little water didn't see any rises , no fish seen ,walked the extent of the beat ,not enough water , no apparent fish . Fished from 08.00 to 2pm gave up , we need rain to replenish the water levels .