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What a scorcher! Just out for the evening …. Fish spooky as usual on this beat, difficult to rise but they did seem to like what I think were potamanthus … yellow mayflies … when they hatched. As others have said access to the river isn’t easy but if a 70 year old can do it…. Best fish 15”. A massive spinner fall at dusk….

4 Trout

Even hotter,ish caught in the morning then it was very casual fishing in the afternoon waiting to go to the pub.
Forgot it was a bank holiday,so we were joined by 2 paddle boarders with partners and children in the far bank.

3 Trout

Lovely stretch of water, I’ll be back when the temperature drops a bit.

1 Trout

3 Trout

10 Trout

1 Trout

Blistering hot day, did not fish

A sizzling day ....Again!!! 22 degrees, when I parked up at 10 bells ....And, i think it was 31, when i packed up at three....Then made a beeline for Crossgates garage for some cold cans of pop, muchly needed !!!
Fishing was sublime,for the whole length of the beat ...Slow and steady here folks, its very low, but fun stalking rising trout, then getting them on the dry, that really takes some beating i think !!!!
Fish ranging in size from five inches right up to a portly 12 inches ....Had four really nice fish for this little diminutive brook .... fantastic stuff !! 21 made it to my net, with a few more slippery devils that didn't..... c'est la vie !!!
I dip tested the river with my thermometer, and she's at 13 degrees, so thats still good !! Must admit, its why I like these overgrown streams, they're well shaded, and keep cool.....
Plenty of insects on the go, including mayfly, which put in an appearance from midday . Lots of mayfly, nymphal shucks in slow back eddie's...good to see !!
A lovely, lively, hot session on my local stream. Super stuff.... Kit away, and i think a cold pint is called for at The Lamb and Flag in town...Round off a bank holiday in style !!! Sorted .......

21 Trout

We caught one (my wife did, I missed two). Small pale olive dry. Trout was about 1 1/4

1 Trout