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Lovely evening. Mayfly out and some rises but not takes or catches.

High wind, and persistent rain brought a real change in the weather, and made for a pretty tough day. Hardly any fly life today - a solitary mayfly and a couple of large olives, and I saw only one fish rise all day.
Managed 2 trout by persevering with very small bead-head PTNs fished upstream, both fish in fine condition and both safely returned.

2 Trout

Two on small green nymphs - nothing rising, but occasional flash from grayling shows they are there! Hot days meant success only at first and last light. Will be back.

2 Trout

Nice water but challenging- reasonable access. Not many rising fish despite abundant mayfly hatch. Lots of fallen trees - would be an easy job to clear them and more of the bank.

1 Trout, 1 Grayling

1 x 11 inch Trout to dry CDC Mayfly targeted from a rise
Despite continual hatch throughout day of Olives, Browns, Mayfly etc saw three rises in a ten hour window. Fished all the deep pools with various nymphs etc to no avail. Where a brook enters the river approx half way down the beat the water Quality drops to a buff slimy bottom. Anyone else seen the Otter? dead Cray fish present
I don't think the beat holds a healthy population of fish
Very challenging best with a 6ft 2wt due to the amount of fallen trees and overhanging branches
beautiful day river very low on a beat that needs a lot of work to make it what could be great

1 Trout

Probably the hottest day of the year so far so no joy. Packed up and left at 11am.

Fished from bottom of the beat, starting at 6:00pm and finished at the beat end 8:30pm. Was hoping for a mayfly extravaganza with fish gorging, but hardly any rises and some, but not many mayfly. Hey ho. Stuck with bushy shadow mayfly and rose 3 in likely runs, all coming to hand. Still too early maybe?

3 Trout

The day started dull and windy and brightened up but got windier. There was a lot of vegetation and branches being blown into the river. Things were very quiet to start with, nothing rising and only the odd fly on the water, but there was a mixed hatch from about 2 pm, mainly large mayfly. Although only the odd trout rose, there was more activity. I caught 3, missed about another 3 and saw about 8 fish rise all day. I retained 2 good trout, 14 and 11oz. Very enjoyable.

3 Trout

Hot and sunny all day, so the tree cover was quite useful. All taken on dries (deer-hair emerger, Adams, and LDOs) and all safely returned.

9 Trout

No interest at all????
River was low and clear with lots of brown muck floating up from the bottom.
Air temp was 26 (whew!) and bright sunshine all day.
Saw at least 30 Mayfly hatch, and a few other olives during the day but no interest from the fish.
Saw the odd rise but no idea what they were taking.
Access to most of the left bank was difficult so walking up the river in chest waders was the only option really and a relief from the heat.
On the plus side, beautiful place.
I will return!