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1 Trout, 1 Grayling

1 Minnow fairly caught on size 18 dry fly.
The beat is getting very overgrown with backside vegetation so fishing can be difficult. Not much can be done about that except wade through the nettles ect. One word of warning in the field you have to cross there are bullocks which may be a bit intimidating.
There was very little hatching so only an occasional fish rising. I suspect we are between fly seasons. The main sedge hatch has not yet started and there were no significant hatches of upwing flies. The main fly in evidence were tiny midges. I managed to get 3 or 4 fish to rise to a dry fly and caught one of them. It was not a very large trout. There were no grayling in evidence.

1 Trout, 1 Other

Weather perfect, upwings on water and nothing rising to them. in fact it was the worst day I've had on the Lugg but nice to be out after Lockdown. will wait for welsh rivers to open up for the English as I feel there's more bang for your buck on the Wye and Usk.

3 Trout, 4 Grayling

Not a good day, very little happening. This beat needs some serious work, barely half of it is fishable, I won’t be gong back in a hurry.

3 Grayling

It’s such a wonderful beat , such a shame that the majority of the beat is not accessible. Both fish taken on dries

2 Trout

Managed 2 small grayling, river low not much flow in parts.

2 Grayling

A most enjoyable day exploring a new river for me. The water was low but still very good stretches available. Not many fish seen and very few hatches observed. Was a cold day compared to the recent weather. 1 trout on dry sedge and a few others raised but not connected. Will be back

1 Trout

The poor Lugg at its bare bones and for such a beautiful beat showing the ravages of winter and another victim of predation to almost destruction. One rise seen all fish blind to tungsten nymphs on french leader it’s duo.
Wild fish may become Dodos the way things are going.

7 Trout, 2 Grayling

Another very warm day so I turned up mid afternoon preparing to fish through the afternoon into the evening. When I got to the river I wasn’t expecting to find two groups of young people sunbathing and a young family jumping up and down on the bridge whilst their dog was swimming in the river below them. It sounds horrendous doesn’t it, but it wasn’t. The youngsters sunbathing were really respectful and the family on the bridge were passing through and the father was making his children laugh. As for the fishing it was tough, although I did have tugs on my nymphs and splashes at the dry fly. I was rewarded later on with a 12”-14” brown trout caught on a cdc dun tied by myself, copied from Davie McPhail on YouTube. All together a good day.

1 Trout