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With summer levels and cold water temperature, too cold really, but just a hint of colour. The prospects didn't bode well. However, after a morning fishing the upper/ deeper stretch with lures to no effect, a switch to the fly rod as the sun topped the trees and fishing the quicker water below the islands resulted in a 30 inch well mended fish which pulled hard and steady but didn't posses the explosive runs of a springer. As luck would have it I was wading mid-stream and as it dropped back into the net the hook fell out. After a short spell to recover it swam away upstream without having been out of the water.
Several more takes followed throughout the afternoon, smaller silver fish of 2 to 4 lbs, but failed to result in fish landed, all on 3 inch "Cascade" tube fly. Next time I'll take a lighter single-hander to get some of these!

1 Other

No fish caught or seen..

No salmon caught or seen, water a touch too high for fly, salmon taken by someone else on the beat though so they were there!!

Hard fishing with water clear and relatively low.

2 Chub, 1 Pike

Nothing caught or seen. River running very fast and quite high. No sign of fly life as cold and windy in morning. When the sun broke through mid afternoon we thought things might improve but all hopes dashed as for some reason the water started running brown which really spoilt what might have been a nice afternoon.

Nice bright day, light breeze, .65m, clear, small hatch of dark olive around 1pm, and the odd march brown. Fished 12pm - 4pm with no takes using 14/16 weighted nymph & waterhen bloa/partridge and orange on dropper. John did his usual masterclass and managed 1 trout to 6oz, otherwise nothing.
11th looks horrid, with 24mph wind, and freezing or below, so will feel like -6. May go if wind drops otherwise unlikely.
Nice to catch up with you Barry, see you soon.

1 Trout

River still carrying a tinge of colour. No fish seen or caught.

Bugged until it got too cold. Saw first and last fly hatch at 12.30. Watched it go undisturbed until lost to view. Lovely day but too cold for me and for the fish!

Spent a few hours in the afternoon. Weather warming up but no sign of any fish. Still, I had a lovely time and it was nice to get back out on a river. Fished duo and various nymphs tried. Maybe next time!

River running fast and a little high but not to bad a colour, weather fine but cool. Unfortunately as weather warmed up in the afternoon someone upstream of Eyton must have been working on the river as it started to run very coloured and made fishing a total waste of time, I wish we had known this was going to happen as we would have saved our money and holiday for another day!!!!! Needless to say nothing caught or seen.