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Very low and clear water. Strong wind blowing along the river. Only fished the fist part of the beat along the field. Small hatch of mayflies, but bigger trout were rising under submerged branches....
Caught a few small ones.

4 Trout

My brother and I had a wonderful days fishing with very tricky fishing with the dry fly only. The fish were rising to a whole range of flies, but often very selectively. We caught 6 brownies the best being around 1 3/4 pounds.

6 Trout

A short morning session upstream of September Cottage with the river running fast and slightly cloudy, weather was overcast with outbreaks of rain. Saw no sign of fish rising so the dry fly rod was not used. Targeted the Brown Trout on a French Leader set up with a bead head olive nymph on the dropper and an off bead GRHE on the point. It was tough to pick out the Trout amongst the out of season Grayling which seemed to be present in every pool. A beautiful stretch of river which I hope to return to one day.

2 Trout, 6 Grayling

Got to the beat c 11:00. Weather mostly rain until after lunch and cold at around 11C. No sign of fly life until about 14:30. Only saw one fish rising to a fly which I couldn’t identify. A couple of small mayfly about 15:30 which the fish seemed to ignore. Left about 15:30 when it was beginning to warm up a little. All that said, a decent day on what looks like a really nice beat on a better day. Took both fish on a GHPTN under a green Klink.

1 Trout, 1 Grayling

Fished the lower beat in a lovely valley. Tricky wading. Cold and rainy day. No rises, no flies, no fish.

Different day, weather wise from Saturday but the river obviously still low. There were a couple of fish showing iat the bottom of beat 3 probably residents, certainly not takers. Lots of surface activity with the trout and a few Mayfly coming off.
A bit of a gripe. I started fishing the bottom of beat 6, fishing the run behind the bottom crib when a dark coloured Fourtrack appeared on my bank, parked up below me at the top of the run unloaded four kids and the driver, They all got out and had a merry old time skimming and throwing stones in. They stayed for about 15 minutes until it started raining, Why there? They had the whole river to choose from. They could obviously see me fishing and I was working my way down to that run. I take it ,it must have been one of the farmers but its not a good advert for the water and not the kind of thing I would expect as a paying guest. The canoes, well, that's another story.....

It was really cold and starting to rain when I arrived. I expected a tough day as the rain got heavier and seemingly the temperature dropped further. Surprisingly though,I had a productive day (by my standards), catching 10 trout, all on a blue-winged olive. Most were in the 8 - 10" range but two were in excess of 15" and lovely fish. This is a nice beat with good access. I will return.

10 Trout

9 Trout

No water in the rivers on any of the beats covered by this passport. Only very small fish seen and caught.

2 Trout