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This is our 4th visit to this beat. Water much higher than before, river made large changes of course over the winter. Light coloured, weather excellent, very pleasant 3 hours fishing. Usual success of zero landed, however did have a couple of good takes.

Fished for four hours today on a new beat for me. River was in good nick but fishing conditions were poor ver windy, sun, rain and hail all in one day! I got five trout all between eight and nine inches on spiders and nymphs. A few olives were hatching but I did not see a fish rise - not surprising for the day it was. Nice beat good for a few hours fishing. I'm sure it will fish better after a spell of settled weather.

5 Trout

Mainly sunny afternoon but a strong downstream wind, almost nothing hatching and nothing rising. So, the tung head hares ear in action again, resulting in 6 trout, 5 at about 9" and one, in good nick, at 14". All from deep runs with a good flow. Also a surprise beautiful grayling at 12". Two of the pools are very different now, each with a full fallen tree across them - adds to the challenges!

6 Trout, 1 Grayling

Lovely stretch of river. River running low and clear. 4 out of season wbt taken on Czech nymph. No sign of Grayling. Will definitely book again.

4 Trout

Where were the grayling? Extra water in the river and coloured but not opaque. Heavy shower at midday but otherwise fine with some olives hatching. In every run and glide there were trout snapping up my PT and sawyer nymphs, but no sign of grayling. Trout were of good size and excellent condition, all swam off strongly.

8 Trout

1 x 13"wbt in prefect condition taken on czech nymph
a few parr and minnows! River low and clear, weather bright and sunny with blustery wind.

1 Trout

One 6" trout 12 grayling 4"-14" all on nymphs. 5hrs fishing going from sun to torrential rain, Friday the 13th!

1 Trout, 12 Grayling

Encouraging that there are so many 4/5/6" trout and grayling in all the streams, greedy though so I ended up fishing with much larger flies than I wanted to deter them. Caught two trout at 10", the rest were the little ones including some great looking grayling.

5 Trout, 4 Grayling

Fished for a couple of hours in the evening, leaving the beat at 7.30pm. Hoping for lovely evening weather after a beautiful day, but the clouds had settled in by the time I got to the river. No rises to be seen and little fly life. Two small trout, each about 6", came to my pheasant tail nymph.

2 Trout

The last part of the beat just 100 metres before the pedestrian bridge has a really big fish.
It jumped just in front of me, one that shout be 40cm.
but I didn't catch that one. Catch and release both fish.

2 Trout