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Fresh cock fish 15lb. on beat 6 to a toby. Nothing else seen.

1 Salmon

A later start than I hoped for due to my fishing friends breakfast requirements (a full fry-up). 10am start and welcomed by a head wind that didn't help our rusty casting.
A fair bit of fly on the water but then the gusts of wind blew them back into their hiding places.
After lunch a few yellow mayfly were being picked off by beautiful birds (sorry about the lack of bird and fly knowledge). A couple of trout were rising between the gusts. I managed to entice a small trout that wriggled off the hook before I could land it.
We fished mainly on the surface mixing it up with Mayfly, Parachutes, Adams and other small brown flies. Two sets of people were spinning the other side of the single bank fishing sections.
Finished at 6pm due to my fishing friends rumbling tummy, I'm sure if we continued fishing we would have caught more.

1 Trout

12lb fresh hen. F/C. Weirend

1 Salmon

6 Trout

Conditions reasonable but a bit bright. Fished for the mayfly experience. Few flies hatching and fewer fish rising

Water looked cloudy but was deceptive as it was clear

2 Trout

Fished a ledger with worm. 1 rainbow Trout taken.

1 Trout

River was in great condition after the week's earlier rain. All fish caught on heavy nymphs using a variety of methods (duo, Czech), with best pushing 1lb and the rest in the 1/2 - 3/4lb range. Bulk of fish caught in an hour between 11-12. All fish were immaculate and returned safely to fight another day.

Word of warming on this beat - wading is tough. Wouldn't want to fish this with a decent flow pushing through!

A final comment to say that our experience was enhanced by Chris Price from Casting With Style...his expertise in guiding us over the day was invaluable, and the skills and watercraft taught to us will be life long skills that we can utilise on our home waters. I can't recommend him enough.

12 Trout

5 Trout

Nice beat in lovely setting, fished from 7 until 2 with a few rises in the morning before all went quiet.

Fished from 4 - 10pm. Best time seemed around 7 - 9. Plenty of proper mayflies coming off plus smaller mayflies. Yes you have to trudge the beat and there were sections with not much activity but with careful study good pockets of fish could be found. Of the 14 fish to net most were in the 6oz-12oz bracket. One fish was over a pound and the best was a clonker of around 2lb which gave me a bit of a shock. Perhaps a further 10 shed hook before the net and a couple of those would have been better stamp also. Plenty of missed takes as well. Most fish took a large Adams/small grey Wulf. The chub were very small but there seemed a lot of them going for flies. The access points in about 8 places had been hacked back which helped otherwise access might have been difficult. At one point I took about 5 minutes to haul myself out and one pool looked very inviting with rising fish but the bank was steep and I thought better judgement was required. Very enjoyable day and one of my best on WUF waters.

14 Trout, 2 Chub