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Lovely evening. Quiet early on but plenty of rises to adams dry fly as dusk approached.

6 Trout

Plenty of small trout and some nice fish in the deeper holes. Caught some nice fish up to 11 inch.

15 Trout

All fish caught on weighted PTN fished on a French leader.
The fish were very spooky in the low clear water but were more than willing to take a nymph in the faster runs. Best fish a plump 12 incher the rest between 6 and 10 inches.
countless Salmon parr around who would grab anything that moved then wriggle of the hook.
Thanks to the visiting angler I met at the top of the beat who kindly gave me a lift back down to the car.

8 Trout

Warm day and river very low. Fished from 11:00 to 15:00 mainly on the lower stretch of the beat. Plenty of hatching fly including the odd Mayfly. Pair of Kingfishers seen. Fish caught on dry fly.

2 Trout

Only fished the upper part (2nd part) of the beat. Plenty of small trout to 9 inch.

12 Trout

Great day on the river with plenty of trout up to 12 inch. Most fish caught on the nymph.

25 Trout

Some might find this strange but I'm not sure I fully enjoyed the fishing today. A personal competitiveness took over and I began to focus on the numbers rather than enjoying the process. I caught 17 fish on the bottom part of the beat and then drove on to the top part for the last part of the afternoon and caught 11 more. A mixed bag of sizes and nothing above 12". All caught on either an Adams Parachute or a Mayfly pattern.

28 Trout

Fished after work 6.30 - 9.30pm up to the footbridge.
This is a beautiful small river with a very high density of trout. Not much rising but a few mayfly seen and also smaller upwing spinners. Fished a big klink with a copper john size 16 NZ style. About a 50/50 split between the two flies. 14 landed 5 - 12 inches, plenty in the 9-11 inch range. Average fish size increased noticeably as it got dark. Numerous fish were lost, missed and pricked- could have been easily 30+ fish to hand... Great evenings sport!

14 Trout

A great day on a lovely beat, countless misses and a few lost on barbless. Eight to hand, nothing over 10 inches but all good fun on light gear. All taken off the top with Blonde Wulf between 13.00 and 18.30 during constant hatches of everything. Marvellous!

8 Trout

Fished from roughly 9.00 - 19.00, finding the river running very low in most areas. Beat is made up of 2 parts, both with a similar character - long, shallow, sections over large gravel, interspersed with areas of bedrock with deep pools and fast runs. Lots of tree cover makes casting difficult in many places, but provides tons of space for fish to lie up. Struggled early on when persisting with nymphs. River was alive with insects including large upwings and mayfly, so switched to large dries in the afternoon and plucked a fish from almost every pool from then out. Fantastic days fishing. Probably 10 or so to hand over the day, but could've had three times that if I wasn't for my heavy feet and questionable techniques. A really enjoyable day on a stunning, wild stream. Highly recomended. Be prepared for careful wading and close quarters fishing.

10 Trout