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Water was very high and fast, snow on the ground and a spoiling wind. Worked hard to locate fish to no avail.

Took a risk on the river level, which was high and coming through fast, not overly coloured but difficult fishing all the same. Tried hard to find the shoaled up grayling with limited success. Only took 2 fish around the 8-10 mark on deep fished nymphs.

1 Trout, 1 Grayling

A hard day from start to finish. River 3-4 feet up coupled with a STRONG downstream wind meant despite fishing alot of swims trying to find the fish .... 2 blanks for us. I didn't come close to catching, but my friend Paul lost a fish from some pacey water behind a rock. Looking forward to our next trip where hopefully we can catch a few.

17 x grayling 9-16 inches, 5 x out of season trout 9-12 inches, flood fishing with the trotting rod. Very high water for this beat at 2ft 6 inches, so fishing along the edges of pools - a matter of finding grayling somewhere in medium placed water out of the main flow. Other than that, like Archimedes, one needs a place to stand. The rod can substitute for the lever. A big wind, especially during the afternoon, blowing neither upstream nor down, but most awkwardly right in my face and sending the float off track. I left when the rain became heavier late in the afternoon.

17 Grayling

Cilmery Gauge 0.85 dropping to 0.75m by evening and ice in the rod rings so tough going, but managed some small grayling on trotted maggots. River running clear. My first visit so spent much of the day looking around, truly a stunning piece of water.

1 Trout, 3 Grayling

Had 3 hours on the water, very cold ice in all the puddles, foggy until 2pm. The river was running off from previous rain with a good level of water coloured but not chocolate. Fished upstream gold heads, no fish caught but couple of nice pulls, I guess it's the penalty of fishing barbless hooks which I prefer to use. One disappointment was seeing a cormorant fly over.

Lovely part of the river, no fish caught dead baiting for pike.

Six in total, 4 grayling to trotted maggot and two oos brownies also. River OK for first hour and half then rose rapidly and coloured up with the amount of rain. All came from the same pool. All grayling ten inches, one brownie 8 inches the other 14 inches. Shame the rain destroyed what promised to be a good days fishing but will be back on this beat once levels drop enough to give it another bash.

2 Trout, 4 Grayling

A nice day for a stroll up and down the beat. No real opportunity to fish as the river was very high, fast and coloured.

The river had risen 3ft overnight. Tried different smelly baits in a couple of swims but no bites.