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River looked slightly high but clear. 3 caught on dry fly (black klink) size 16. 1 caught on hares ear nymph size 14.
Biggest fish just over 1lb. Had lots of refusals/coming short. Took several pattern changes to get good offers. Very warm and sunny day.

4 Trout

A truly beautiful morning of bright sun-shine and very hot, good for a walk with a camera (and toting a dry fly rod along), but nothing hatched and nothing rose. Had to leave at 1.30.

Fishing as deep as poss with 2 in yellow/black tube & spinning with 28g toby. One small salmon seen. Water still carrying colour &, at 1.05m on Ross gauge, there is strong flow. Weather made up for lack of fish!

Brilliant sunshine day. No bites and very few rising all day. Ledger,float and spinning to no avail, but a very enjoyable days fishing.

Full on sun all day, river a bit high, no fish. But a very enjoyable day. Could not get very far into the river because of the height but tried dries all down the bottom half of the beat and nymphs at top and bottom. Some fly life but only saw one fish. Very hot for time of year but still great to be on the river

High water... fast flowing... but at least a beautiful day....

Sunny day with light wind, the river was running beautifully with a very slight tinge of colour. This was my first trip to this lovely little river, which unfortunately ended in a blank. I did lose a small fish on the last pool and I may have missed a couple of bites too.
Didn't see a single fish rise despite there being a small hatch, on one pool I sat and watched flies landing and skating on the water. I sat patiently, expecting a fish to take but nothing happened. I will be back to this pleasant river once it switches on.

caught at 10.00am tube fly 12 lbs

1 Salmon

Glorious lunchtime and afternoon working up the stream following a snap decision to make use of the fine weather and can off work for the day.
Fog lingering all the way up the Severn vale all morning, but started to burn off when I arrived at the stream around lunchtime. Stream running fast, high and pretty coloured. Made wading awkward with not having much of a view. Cursed myself for no wading staff as some sections are a little uneven underfoot and its a little while since I last fished this stretch so a little hazy on the topography. A number of trees have come down over the winter. They don't affect wading but a couple of pools are now harder to fish without getting snagged up.
4 wbt to hand over the course of the afternoon taken on nymphs; olive and then a cream caddis type thing once the olive succumbed to the vegetation (both bead headed). An equal number managed to slip the hook before I could land them.
Prospected with dries in the likely places on a few pools but don't think the fish are looking up yet, despite sporadic hatches occurring all afternoon. Didn't see a single rise

4 Trout

A belting day, with sunshine and a gentle breeze throughout - a real pleasure to be on such a scenic beat in those conditions, with the river dropping to an ideal height. One rod was targeting salmon all day with the fly, the others switched between fly / spin to suit the different pools.
Saw several salmon moving above the bridge in the morning but none were contacted.
Two of us then switched to fishing a duo on 4/ 5wt. set-ups as the fish rising to the immense hatches proved too much to resist! We had grayling to 2lbs and trout to 12oz, mostly on the dry but a few to weighted nymphs. We lost count of the number of takes missed. Saw a cracking barbel beneath the bridge, head down, tail up, 8lbs +

We will return!

4 Trout, 9 Grayling