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Enjoyable afternoon on a nice stretch of river. Water level was low but still plenty of fish moving around and managed to convince one with a brown sedge.

1 Trout

Today was about how many fish i missed! Oh, for some more talent! I had takes from about 30 fish but most got off or I didn't hook properly in the first place. Talking of those that got away, I caught a 2KG trout... and guess what happened....

6 Trout

Started off the evening after salmon but the mayfly spinner fall had me distracted so back to the car for the Trout rod managed 9 to just over a pound, some big fish moving !

9 Trout

Broken cloud through most of the day and 9” of water on the gauge gave good conditions for trout. Used a variety of methods from wets to nymph, but stopped using French leader quite quickly as pulling up too many grayling. A very enjoyable day

9 Trout, 3 Grayling

An interesting and varied section of river, although few fish showing during my visit. One thing worth noting, the walk down to the river is very over grown and difficult, especially with a made-up rod!

River rose ++ by 1pm and left. Should be good 31 May

5 Trout

A fine day weather wise, although a strong, gusting wind made casting difficult at times.
Lots of small fish moving but we failed to land more than 2. We did see a fresh run salmon of about 8lb jump in the Abernant pool.

1 Trout, 1 Grayling

This return covers both single rod bookings.
One of our favourite venues – and we were on a mission, more of which later. Today was a soft day with a fairly stiff breeze and plenty of airborne insects, but not too many seen hatching. Rising fish mostly oncers with a few more persistent and compliant specimens – 10 came to hand, best one 14 inches.
This stretch of river is always excellent for wildlife and we had woodpeckers, herons and kites – but best of all were the kingfishers, not fazed by our presence at all and put on an excellent display of courting behaviour and flight.
Back to the mission. We are aware of a very significant fish on this beat – not the very early silver tourist that was seen in residence yesterday but an absolutely clonking brownie ensconced in a challenging lair. We had deduced that our best chance would be in the Mayfly season and were hopeful yesterday, but the behemoth was nowhere to be seen and there were very few mayfly any way. So we fished on until the evening when in the next pool up from the lair James hooked a 6 inch tiddler which bounced around a bit as they are wont…until his weight 4 rod suddenly bent double and retrieval became a significant challenge. Turned out the behemoth has left his lair for this pool and had decided that a 6 inch trout would be a very acceptable supper. He was on for about 15 seconds before he let go and continued to follow the tiddler until he was lifted to safety. Estimated weight – conservatively a 4lb fish. What a clonker! Next time perhaps….

10 Trout

1 lb lovely brownie. A few other small trout jumping. Lovely evening.

1 Trout

River is low and clear. Trout are in the deeper parts of the pools towards the head. Lots of trout are chasing mayflies.
Caught a few on mayfly patterns but most came to the nymph fished deep. Very nice day on the river with plenty of nice trout caught.

10 Trout