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One brown trout of 2lbs plus. It was returned safely as requested.

A lovely looking stream - the upper section has some lovely pools. The river was very low and clear so I will reserve my judgment of the beat for a day when the water is higher and fish are feeding a bit more. Few fish seen even though the pools were no doubt home to trout. No fish landed - several good fish rose to sedge and lost - one particularly big fish lost.

Beautiful day, slight colour to water, sky with high cloud but warm. From 11am till 5pm LDOs present but not in large numbers. Saw one fish rise! But what to? I cast an olive klinkhammer with a PTN at the point for perhaps 10mins but could not tempt the fish to take. The only other fish seen and caught was a fine 10" wild brownie and what a fight this little fish put up, tail walking and charging off all over the stream, on light tackle great fun. The fish was returned unharmed, it took the PTN. Strange thing is, I've fished this beat before and caught lots of fish and seen a lot. Today I only fished half the beat in the time as above and I then walked the rest but did not see another fish. May be still early. Dippers and Sand Martins for company though. Great day, thank's WUF.

A lovely looking stream - the upper section has some lovely pools. The river was very low and clear so I will reserve my judgment of the beat for a day when the water is higher and fish are feeding a bit more. Few fish seen even though the pools were no doubt home to trout. No fish landed - several good fish rose to sedge and lost - one particularly big fish lost.

Fished a couple of hours in the evening. Thought it might be a little early in the year for this stream but there were a number of fish rising. 3 BT to 8" on grey klinkhammer and pt nymph and a fair few lost due to rusty early season reactions.

Had a lovely days fishing on the Lugg. River clear, hatches of olives during the day. Caught 4 brown trout to 10 inches all returned.

5 x brown trout. 4 x around 15 - 20cm. 1 x 40cm. All returned.

1 salmon, about 7th cast of day at bottom of steel steps in lower part of beat. Yellow/silver flying C fished mid-depth, 2ft, positive take on near edge of main flow. About 1 or 2inch of fresh water from yesterday but water still clear. Overcast with upstream breeze causing surface ripples.
Silver fish with sealice on gill covers and flanks, 38in long (96cm) took 20mins to bring to net after several long powefull upstream runs. Had to net land as fish rolled main line around tail as it was brought into shallows. Swam strongly and undamaged upstream on release.
My first salmon, thanks to Donny Macer-Wright for his expert advice and constant encouragement and also to W&U for their weekly report last week which recommended trying The Courtfield and Lower Wye beats which led me being on the river bank that day instead of odd jobs at home!

We had a great time on the Rectory yesterday. There was a good grannom hatch and you were right about the trout quartering the flow in search of the flies - 50% of the time our guess was right! We had some lovely fish - about 20 or so up to 1.5lb. I lost a couple of stonkers (2lb+) that charged off across the river. As the grannom hatch petered out we switched to fishing the riffles with Klinkhammer and small skinny nymph with reasonable success as fish rose to the klinkhammer in the bouncy rough water (knee deep). Olly thought he caught a small sea trout (three quarters of a pound on a klink) although I did not see the fish.... The river then rose quite rapidly and we called it a day.

5 x wild trout: two small fellows and the best three at 15, 16 and 17 inches. A very cold day, with a harsh downstream wind bringing increasing rain (which we badly need, because the sluggish river is full of algae and other muck). Nothing hatching and nothing at all seen rising, so it was good to find a few taking fish.