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Water low and very clear lots of fish fry. No fish rising as early afternoon had one trout on GB hares ear.

1 Trout

My friend and Barbel/coarse fisherman MW from London decided he would like to try wild stream trouting after hearing me go on about it. First time fly fishing for him! I said the river could be dour at this time of year, and indeed the recent rain had passed through leaving a low slow river still with slime etc. He got the hang of it quite quickly, but could only tempt 1 7" brownie on dry. Eventually I found an answer - a tiny tung head GRHE shuffled along the bottom of the deepest pools produced 2 more trout to 12" and 4 Grayling to 13". He went home happy and me relieved - he is talking of getting a small fly rod now....

3 Trout, 4 Grayling

Two trout taken but a number of others rose to spider type flies fished Tenkara style. I fished from about 7pm to 9:30pm when I left the river because of another 4 legged fisherman. I spent about 5 minutes watching an otter feeding just bellow the junction pool. Great to see a wild otter. It is my first.

2 Trout

Lovely beat, only fished upper half, kids in pool below bridge. 1 or 2 rises, in well protected lies, had 1 on a dry for a while but lost under a tree, good fish.

Had fun day on Lower Longtown thanks. River in nice clean condition. Saw a few shadows in the pool near to where the rivers meet but I could not tempt them. Plenty of little fish rising. I tried several types of fly with no return, thanks for a lovely day.

Fished from 5 till 8 pm. Not a lot happening but managed to catch 3 on dry. 1st on Griffiths gnat, other 2 on iron blue. All in fast water at heads of the pools. Had a few Kingfishers and a water vole? As company. Water still a little coloured after recent downpours.

3 Trout

Caught 8" on klinkhammer 2nd cast of the day, made way up to junction pool with Escley and took a 10" WBT on mayfly nymph. After letting the pool rest a wonderful 14" trout took a crippled mayfly on the surface and put up a tremendous fight. Thunderstorm put an end to my day at 5.30pm. Water level lower than I would have expected - lots of fry in the margins.

3 Trout

2 Trout

Arrived late morning to find the car and ourselves in sunshine and surrounded by mayfly as we were getting ready. We made our way to the bottom of the beat and entered the stream where there were several fish showing and it didn't take long to hook and promptly lose a nice sized trout which took a cdc emerger. Whilst briefly playing the fish I noticed a lady approaching on the left bank who came to tell us that the section of the river we were in was private fishing. I explained that we had wild stream permits and maps that made clear there was no bank access at that point on the river and that was why we were both in the river channel not on the bank. She said that her husband had reported the issue of fishermen (presumably to WUF) previously as she believed that their landowner rights extended half way across the river channel and therefore we could only fish the right half of the river - she explained she was planning to come and swim down there soon (presumably only in her knee deep half!). Having disturbed the pool with the lost fish and in the interests of keeping the peace we moved on upstream as the lady settled down on the bank to make sure we didn't stray into 'her' half of the river.
Fish continued to rise to mayfly through the afternoon and several more were hooked and lost but eventually a nice fish of 12" came to the net. By 5pm the hatch was still going strong but there was little sign of fish showing, presumably stuffed after a day gorging themselves. A nice beat, tricky to access in places but with some lovely looking bits of water.

Met a very nice man weedkilling at bottom of beat - I think he owns the adjacent private land and is a keen fisher. He gave me excellent advice on profitable lies - where Olchon enters, stretch opposite to camping field, 2 wide bends higher up. Stretches between can be largely dead. Good hatch of olives and fish rising - several raised and missed. Lovely stretch, different to upper beat, enjoyable day.

2 Trout