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After a period of heavy overnight rain, a brief rest and the heavens opened again, remaining open through most of the day. River was up by 2inches, with a tinge of colour. My experience of fishing dry flies in the rain, has never be good........until today ! There was no shortage of fish rising and one rod took 4 fish to 1.75lbs in the first half hour. This activity continued through the day, and we accounted for several fish of 1.5lbs to 1.75lbs, six fish of 2lbs and another fine fish of 3lbs, with copper flanks The remainder between 0.5lb and 0.75lbs, making the days tally up to 29 trout. In my book fishing for trout with dry flies, doesn't come much better than this. Thank you to the WUF.

29 Trout

Evening ticket Saw off a poacher spinning on the opposite bank. This is the third time in two years on this beat

4 Trout

Arrived mid morning to find plenty of fly life and fish rising, we couldn’t get our waders on quick enough! Then I had a very entertaining morning trying to tempt an obviously big trout which was rising frequently in the smooth water just above a riffle, it stubbornly refused my dry fly over and over and carried on munching all manor of aquatic fly life which drifted towards it...most frustrating. Finally I got the take I’d worked so hard for and promptly missed it, so I moved on.
I found another rising trout which was far easier to tempt but as I saw it turn it threw the hook...more frustration and possibly a swear word or two followed.
Before long I found myself back where I’d started and facing another round with the big trout which was by now happily sticking its head up and flicking its tail as it fed. This time I took a few deep breaths, tied on a lighter tippet, double checked my knots and got very carefully into position and made my cast. It was a good cast and as I watched the dry fly I’d tied myself float down stream up came the trout and took it, what followed was heart stopping stuff but eventually I got it into my net and I could breath again, a new PB WBT, I was very happy indeed, thank you WUF.

2 Trout

Hot and sunny 22' Despite the bright sunshine, the first and second cast of the day produced two trout, one of 1lb and one of 2lb on a small dry in the rapids. Two more good trout were caught of 2lbs each in the fast runs, they tended to hit the fly hard making a splash and a quick strike at this produced the goods. several of the other fish caught were on small nymphs. total of 10 fish of which 3 of 2lbs.

10 Trout

Dryfly, mayfly emerges, water low,very sunny.
An enjoyable day.

4 Trout

A very hot day and bright sunshine. River in wonderful condition and plenty of water. Rises good and a few mayfly around but very quiet during mid day and evening. Sadly went home empty handed. But a wonderful day .

6 Trout

Nice hatch of olives . largest c. 1 3/4 lb. Many thanks to Oliver for guiding

12 Trout

Conditions were perfect when I arrived at this lovely stretch of water. I started fishing around 11:00 and spent about two hours fishing a stretch of around 30m at the very bottom end of the beat. There was much activity with fish rising regularly to a sustained and significant hatch. During this period I managed to connect with more than a dozen fish but sadly only landed 7, all WBT. Two of these were significant fish between 15" to 18" long, the rest being 12" or less. All were caught on Adams fly. Activity on the river died at around 14:00 so I took the opportunity to sit quietly by the river with a mug of coffee and took in the lovely surroundings before going home. A good day.

7 Trout

3 Trout