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3 Trout

Not the target but 3 x Trout on a black FC today

3 Trout

First time for me on this beat and shared with Ian (nice to meet you!) who arrived at the same time in the early afternoon. Found some rising fish straight away to March browns and large dark olives, landed 3 including a beauty of approx. 2lb. Several other large fish fixated on smaller stuff. Headed to the upper end for the late afternoon, where there was a continuous hatch of LDOs, olive uprights and some Turkey Browns (?). The trout were on them throughout, reaching a peak around 5.30-6.30pm. Landed 3 more and lost as many more including some brutes. Decent stamp of fish and only 1 tiddler amongst them. All landed on home tied CDC emergers or split wing patterns. Lovely day and nice beat, will be back.

6 Trout

Fish sipping midges from lake, no bites on whatever flies we tried.

Be aware ticks present around lake found 3 on my waders.

A sunny day with good hatches throughout but I didn't see a single rise. After a couple of hours swinging wets I moved to using streamers which proved to be very effective. The trout wanted a fry imitation moving extremely fast. Once I'd cracked the code I caught some great trout of about 1.5 pounds and upwards. The largest was about three pounds. I also caught one chubb.

10 Trout, 1 Other

No trout caught, just a few small perch which were returned.
The water level was very high which restricted the available areas suitable for fly fishing.

Failed to get name of top angler/guide who I met on the beat. Very interesting advice from him. Will check to see if he posts.

Fishing tough but managed a few on bpth dries and nymphs. Very engaging but and earlier me would have struggled.

Fly life refreshing to see and the Sand Martins were hard at it!!

11 Trout

Oddly, little in the way of hatch or rise. Two modest fish (up to 12") on PTN. Could the cold water presumably being released from very full reservoirs following such a wet Jan-Feb be inhibiting the expected olives hatch? Seemed to be more spinners than duns (though few of either). The river is still quite high following 3 weeks now with no rain, and little flow in the brooks. (I saw there were plenty of minnows about, some quite big, which could possibly be imitated by streamers)

2 Trout

Lovely day, warm, light breeze, cloudy with occasional sunny spells. Lost a fish early on, however my fishing partner managed to land a couple. Very few bugs hatching, saw only two fish rise all day.

2 Trout

1 Trout