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13 Trout, 6 Grayling

fish were of goo size an put up good fight

12 Trout

2 Trout

Well, my day started with a flat tyre followed by a fly box falling into the river and being washed away, then a leak in my waders! The fish also were disinclined to cooperate the only decent one caught was by a friendly otter who had a mammoth battle with a 2lb brownie. He eventually lost out and the fish escaped. The otter has my sympathy! A beautiful beat but I couldn't work out how to fish it. The gullies between the rock are quite deep and fast and even my weighted bugs were swept away too quickly I think. No fish rising and not much fly life. I think we're still not quite 'awake'.

1 Grayling

Hard work today, a lot more trees down than last year making some of the better pools difficult to fish. Plenty of fly life - only a few rises but managed to bring two fish to hand on an Adams and a further two by nymph (GRHE)

WUF - a suggestion for the beat map; it would be useful to show the two footbridges and the public footpaths as it’s not easy getting out of the canyon.

4 Trout

Nothing.....

2 takes and 1 hooked and lost this evening a small hitched tube

Great day on the river but sadly no salmon. My beginners luck didn’t hold. Beautiful water and mostly sunny day. Although I did manage to catch a 1lb trout on a small cascade fly. Met a fellow angler on the bank who gave me some good advice and pointed me in the right direction - Thank you Charles.

1 Trout

2 Trout

A salmon of 12 lb from beat 5 on a flying C. Saw a few fish moving although the general feel was that there were not that many fish in the river. Can you please rewrite the directions to the pools, we wasted an hour trying to find them , particularly the right hand bank of beat 5 which bore no relation to the instructions given.

WUF Note : Congratulations on the salmon and thank you for the feedback on the directions. Whilst this is the first time we have heard of anyone having difficulty in finding Beat 5, we have looked at the information supplied and made improvement where necessary.

1 Salmon