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Great day on the Ithon, 15 trout from 4 - 10 inches and one salmon par. Seven of the trout were in the 8-10 bracket. Started on Nymph and had one small one, then saw some smaller fish rising, as I'm a beginner I took the chance to practice a little upstream dry and was rewarded with some more smaller fish. This gave me confidence to then fish the rest of the day on dry experimenting with various Klinkhammer patterns.
There were very few fish rising but this didn't stop the trout taking anything I put in front of them, missed lots and lost a few.
Fantastic day, thanks again WUF

15 Trout, 1 Other

Fished mid-beat for a couple of hours am. Water low. 3 small trout on nymph. Lost a good os grayling. Mayfly about but not much rising. Lovely beat.

3 Trout

My first time to this beat and it was a pleasant change not to have to duck under the branches or negotiate barbed wire to get to it. Casting was very easy too. The trout were rising quite well to hawthorn flies and even took my imitation despite the fact that this had long since lost the trailing legs to bankside vegetation on another beat. The beat does need more water though and a good wash-through. I can't help thinking that anything much larger than 6 inches here will be picked off by avian predators, as there is not a lot of cover.

4 Trout

Fished from 11.30am to 5pm nice sunny day, occasional rises to small flies. Started off with a dry. Rewarded with a big grayling of 15" and trout to 10". Later changed to duo and caught on both. Great day!

5 Trout, 2 Grayling

0.15m on gauge and looking clear. Not much fly life and the swallows were scarce. Two caught as targeted rises and two in tail of pool with no prior indications which included an oos grayling. All took a Kites Imperial, but I suspect the Iron Blue will soon be out of the box.

3 Trout, 1 Grayling

The Law of Sod!...I struggled all season to catch grayling on this beat but today got the biggest (19") and fattest of the winter ..but out of season! Becoming seriously time poor for fishing I grabbed the only day in the foreseeable to go,despite the forecast of steady light rain.
A special day..struggled until midday, no sign of fish and then the swallows appeared ! first I've seen this year and they were there for the flies, what followed was a steady varied series of hatches and the 8 trout ( 9-12") came to #16 Iron Blue , Greenwells and Adams.The grayling to #16 Kites Imperial......all from one pool.

8 Trout, 1 Grayling

Nothing doing until midday ...sparse and short hatches of olives....no rising fish.....4 trout 8-13" all on Greenwells and Adams at the tails of the pools.
Nice to have a bit of sun!

4 Trout

Fished for 3 hours...no sight of grayling at all.....one nice fat and fit trout about 12-13" on olive tungsten bead nymph. River at 0.34m ..able to wade but flowing fast and strong.

1 Trout

This beat was fished by members of the Grayling Society on this occasion. Grayling c30cms Trout (15 - 30cms)

6 Trout, 1 Grayling

Just had a couple of hours to spare, but unfortunately I got my timing wrong as the overnight/early morning rain had raised the level sufficiently to colour the water up.
One tree down on the lower section and one leaning precariously just upstream of this one. Good to be out but no takes.