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Fished early morning, no salmon but Shad and trout active 5 Shad and a couple of trout. Lamprey spawning under Boughrood bridge

Good hatches Good tr outs

3 Trout

Very pretty beat, sadly no salmon seen or heard.

Unfortunately following a previous day of rain and sporadic showers during the day was not expecting a bumper haul, my brother lost one and caught one (under the bridge) and I fished like an absolute buffoon which is the norm on a new stretch of river, glorious stretch of water and would recommend to anyone, although either were getting older or stiles are getting taller !
Just a quick word of warning, after rainfall some of the river accesses are quite slippy so be careful.

1 Trout

Duo, nymphs and dries all worked. Same old story of a very large trout lost when it got the better of me and wedged itself under a rock shelf. Challenging but fun fishing.

12 Trout

Raining so river colouring up. managed 1 trout on dry about 12 oz. Most of beat difficult to fish., too overgrown. Nice stay at Tan farm campsite.

1 Trout

1 small trout on dry. beat is pretty overgrown so difficult to fish.

1 Trout

Sadly the promise of a rise in levels and high pressure came to nought. Also the accessible Fly water is currently reduced to just the Bridge Pool and the Pulpit/Island due to rapid growth of bank-side vegetation. The Run, the better holding area for Salmon at this level on the right bank, could not be fished by any method as I couldn’t find the usual access points down the steep banks; no doubt this will be cleared in time for the course season but I think this will be my last visit.

1 Trout

No longer JM from Kingsland as have now retired to Devon. Back for a long weekend for a wedding so took the opportunity to have a day on Abernant.
The rain on Friday lifted the level by .25 of a metre and gave the river a bit of life.
Eight wbt between 8 and 12 inches on a variety of dry flies and now 12 inch grayling on a sedge late in the day.
Several large hatches of olives and a few mayflies but never many fish rising, otherwise would have expected a few more fish.
Several families playing in the river on the far bank restricted area fished to lower area of Lady Alexander’s Catch and wading to the middle of Abernant stream and fishing back towards the bank.
Back in Salcombe now - experimenting with fly fishing for mullet who will take a nymph and wiggly worms and give a good tussle on a four weight, and bass and pollock on lures.
Will be back for another session on the Wye in July.

8 Trout, 1 Grayling

1 Trout