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What a beautiful day for me to start the season! The water was quite low and clear. There were buzzards above and lesser celandines below. I fished for a couple of hours in the afternoon and started at the rock pool and then moved down to wood stream. I didn't see any fish but it was great once again to be casting a spey line into the water. There were one or two march browns hatching which was lovely to see. I went back on Sunday for another four or two. Again a beautiful day but no fish seen or caught. It's great to be back at Chainbridge and there's always next time! Thanks again to the owner, who as always was extremely helpful and friendly.

River in good nick. clear and steady at 0.80m. Arrived with a cold northerly wind. Sun came out at 1p.m.and a good hatch of olives ensued. Surprisingly trout were uninterested and no risers. Had one smash take on a wet olive but fine leader parted. No sign of salmon either but a fabulous Spring day with Buzzards and a Red Kite in attendance.

Hard day again with .9m and ENE. We both blanked.

Arrived at 10am. River looked great 0.78m on gauge and clear. Great to get some exercise with the 15fter. In spite of a mild day, only a very light hatch of march browns and olives. Only a couple of risers and no sign of salmo salar. Magnificent Red Kite seen just as we were packing up.

2 x trout 15 inches and 19 inches, Waterhen Bloa. Many thanks to owner Barry Paraskevas for inviting me to try for a salmon. However, this was not to be, although I did get a long slow pull in the Rock pool. Still, the casting practice was good and this beat has an interesting variety of pools to try. After lunch, the LDOs showed up, so I dug out the trout rod and got a lovely brace of fish on spiders which made my day. A pleasantly warm afternoon, with no wind for a change.

2 Trout

Fished woodstream morning and rockpool afternoon. Some March Browns on surface in late morning to 2pm but no fish rising. I had no takes fishing small waterhen bloas. John had one fish of half pound - returned.
Fished rockpool from staging. No result. Water about .88 but cold ENE.

1 Trout

Nice day when out of the wind. Fished Woodstream as that gave more wind protection and better casting. Landed a nice brown of around 1lb on Thunder and Lightning tube around midday at the bridge.
One salmon topped and tailed above bridge but was fished over and not seen again.
Stuart Bigley and David MacPherson fished at the top and through the Rockpool with no takes.
John Lewis fished an orange and black tube but did not contact any fish.
Little or no fly life in the stiff cold westerly but a few trout did show mid afternoon. I had no luck fishing a pair of waterhen bloas in the margins.
We all enjoyed the opening day.

1 Trout

Great to be out on the river again. Water was clearing and starting to fall and so was full of anticipation. However, no sign of any fish during the day. It was good to get the muscles working again and look forward to a good season.

Had a lovely and very sociable day on the riverbank at the kind (as ever) invitation of owner. River was at 0.9m, reasonable colour but rising slowly. Saw approximately 8 salmon on the day, all runners I suspect.
They completely ignored the offerings of 6 competent salmon anglers till the curtain came down on another season frustratingly soon. Just 2 feisty 1lb trout caught. Best wishes to every one. See you next year.

2 Trout

A good day, however no fish seen or caught.