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Wet fly downstream. Lovely conditions but rather bright. Three good fish of around 1lb.

3 Trout

A field of very inquisitive mixed heifers followed me to the water's edge. Much of the beat is a high near vitical bank which gave a great view of the river bed, as the water was the clearest I've ever seen. Several trout were stationed close to the bank. Unfortunately, with the interest from the heifers casting to these was out of the question and ladning the fish would have been challenging. I finally entered the river towards the bottom of the beat after some bushwacking at just about the only accessible point protected from heifer interest by an electric fence. Here the river is knee deep and quite quick over small boulders, so wadeable with a staff. When I arrived back up at a point where it might be possible to reach the fish I'd seen earlier, a strong looking dog otter pocked his head up no more than 8m away. No fish caught.

short evening stint. 1 Barbel 8LB 3OZ just above the hut swim

1 Barbel

Good day fishing with pleasant weather and light breeze throughout the day. Stopped fishing at approx 2.30pm after catching 6 rainbow trout. Trout were approx 2lb with 2no exceeding that weight. Another angler fishing to south of me also caught 4 rainbow trout by time I left.

6 Trout

Grayling 1 1/2 lb est ,river low sunny conditions, lovely stretch.

2 Trout, 1 Grayling

River was dropping but still had some flow on, fairly clear, just a few bits of weed coming down. Barbel up to 9lb 3oz on the feeder and pellet. Good average size of fish with 7lb 14oz and 3 other 5-6lbers. Most barbel came in the first meadow from the car park. Advise taking a long handled landing net and be careful on the steep banks! The Croy at the top was easier to fish and we caught some nice chub there but no barbel.

5 Barbel, 4 Chub

Fished by hut nice day????????

1 Barbel, 9 Chub

2 Barbel

4 Trout

Best barbel 8.8 and chub of 4.2.
The last day of our 5 day visit-overall the fishing has been difficult, cold overnight, very bright all day and a dropping river following flood conditions.
However, the beautiful scenery and super weather (topped up the suntan) more than compensated for the lack of barbel.

2 Barbel, 1 Chub