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2 Trout

Quite a chilly day with a d/s wind. Water had a nice tint but was pushing through a bit which made the wading even harder than the last time I fished here!
Didn't get a touch before midday but the fish switched on after that before I stopped at 3.
Didn't see any fish rising so just upstreamed a nymph - biggest trout 11" and biggest grayling around a pound.
The other was a salmon parr about 6".

3 Trout, 3 Grayling, 1 Other

A little hard work for four fish in 5 hours. There wasn't much of a hatch but I wanted to dry fly fish. The photo shows the best by far of the bunch.

4 Trout

Excellent day feeder fishing. Caught on meat and boilies. River up a bit and a big storm later in the day. Some swims were steep and slippery so risky when it was raining heavily.

1 Barbel, 5 Chub, 3 Other

Dufnant is a beautiful, secluded feeling place even on a day that started gray and finished in proper stair-rod downpours. I found it quite hard going, not straightforward to fish - especially on a decidedly not dry fly day - and a tough wade to boot. For the first hour I neither caught nor saw or trout even in some promising riffly water. Then I caught one - a beautiful purple brownie of a pound plus, then another, and so it went. And I caught more or less steadily thereafter. But the day (the week? the year?) was made by one terrifying, glorious beast of 3lb 2oz.

17 Trout

Cold downstream didn't help much today but managed to winkle a few out on gold bead nymph and spider. A few long distance releases too.

4 Trout, 1 Grayling, 1 Chub

River at 1’1” and clearing slowly. Some luck after a fashion today with a take from a known lie in the bottom of the beat early afternoon. Strangely, very little fight but what I thought was probably a chub turned out to be a small, very coloured cock salmon that had probably been in the system for some time.
A bit skinny but with no sign of any fungal infection.
Played hard, not netted, and swiftly released “Oykel Style”. Guesstimate 6-7lb.
Fished most of the beat with nothing else seen before finishing in heavy rain at 5.00pm.
From the Chapel Catch.
Silver Stoat dressed on 1/2” copper.

1 Salmon, 2 Trout

1 Barbel, 12 Chub, 1 Other

4 Trout