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A beautiful stream with lovely pocket water. Unfortunately not the best of days.

Fished the late afternoon and evening. Few fish showing and only a couple of small fish to show for my efforts.

2 Trout

Pleasant day till later. River very clear but still flowing nicely. Landed 7, all about 6/7" and missed a few. No sign of the larger fish, either on nymphs or the surface. The takers were all on small grey paras.

7 Trout

River clear but still flowing well. A few assorted flies hatched but no concerted response from the trout, so again I searched the water with paras. These sparked reasonable interest, of which I landed 6. 5 were in the 7 to 9" range, and one a real stonker at 15", on a para adams and who gave me a real fight on the light gear in the rapid water next to tree roots where he was lurking. Truly memorable!

6 Trout

Rose two, missed both, very to rough underfoot, wading staff a lifesaver! Not many decent runs, disappointing.

Masses of fly life including large stonefly, but little evidence of fish!

Fished using the new "wild stream" permit, a good and efficient service with very helpfull staff. Fished from 1PM to 8PM on a beautiful bright day with some cloud cover; tree cover and shade also helped comfort very spooky trout. A good rise early afternoon, I'm not clever enough to determine what type but I for sure saw some mayflies amongst some smaller flies. Short beat that has benefited from the coppicing work done by the Foundation. Tried a klinkhammer and mayfly to the rises but my casting failed me, one heavy cast and they were spooked. Searched with GBPTN for the remainder of the day, managed one 12" WBT in good condition. Beautiful beat, wished there were more trout in evidence.

1 Trout

Two nice trout, one just over 1lb, taken on Royal Wulff - both returned in good condition.

2 Trout

I felt like a beginner on this piece of water. Basically 1.5 miles of tumbling, broken water. I need some lessons before tackling this one again. The pools were small and the water fast. Beautiful and remote valley. Beautiful stream. Will be back after taking some advice! Watch out for tree stump hidden in undergrowth at parking.

River clear and running nicely. 2 trout (6/7") on a drab klink while the clouds parted around midday. When the clouds closed in again and the wind blew the trout were not interested in anything, despite some fly life. Hope this is not the weather pattern we can expect the rest of the year!!

2 Trout