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Blanked. Was a bit unlucky - two rolled off the hook, but it was very tough today with only three bites in all. A few sparse LDO hatches for an hour or two in the early afternoon and that was when all the bites came, completely dead either side. Not many trout rising to them or taking sub-surface, and unfortunately those I did see were on the fast side beyond fast current requiring a reach cast for a few seconds presentation, or in dead slack water making presentation very difficult. Tried everything from dries to nymphs, spiders to black wooly bugger - 2 of the three bites came to the nymph. Nice to be on the river again though, it's beginning to wake up again and the birds certainly appreciated the few mayflies more than the trout - grey wagtail, dipper, and a few early swallows back hawking over the river. Lovely to be back too after the long winter and last few weeks of deluges!

One other thing maybe to note - I saw five dead toads in the bankside shallows, all at different places which was a little alarming. None showed any signs of predation. No dead fish or obvious signs of pollution. Perhaps an amphibian disease is striking at the moment? Or maybe correlated with high toad activity and visibility at the moment - have seen a lot of toadspawn and tadpoles recently too. But I've never seen a string of dead toads like that before. Did hear at least two more croaking in bankside cover.

River high but clear. 2 fish caught both over 12". One on March Brown and one on weighted PTN

2 Trout

Only one angler fished

Water nicely fining down, but a cold upstream wind most of the time. Lovely hatch of March Browns about 2.15 to remind us how many trout there are in the river; but only for about 10 minutes. All my fish were on well sunk hares ear nymphs, spread through the day from 10am to 5pm.

5 Trout

Cold blustery wind resulted in no fish movement but managed two lovely conditioned Trout fishing a Lure quite deep.

2 Trout

11 Trout

4 Trout

4 Trout

no good nice to be out

7 Trout