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1 Barbel

2 x trout, 3 x grayling, 1 x chub, spiders

2 Trout, 3 Grayling, 1 Chub

2 x trout and 4 x grayling, DHE, in between the showers

2 Trout, 4 Grayling

River low but fishable. Sporadic hatches in the late afternoon and evening provided two small trout and a grayling to a Parachute Adams (lower half of the beat)

I'm not gonnna lie; the grayling was caught by accident. I was repositioning in the river with the rod over my shoulder, line still out trailing behind me. I felt a tug on the line and a half-pound grayling took the dry fly.

In the shallows lay the remains of the head of a pike. It must have been a monster; the head alone was a foot long.

2 Trout, 1 Grayling

Small trout today

1 Trout

1x Brown Trout caught on a dry fly. Fished for a couple of hours 7-9pm. Hot day so not much activity.

1 Trout

Warm, sunny with gentle breeze - river very low. Still insect hatches and near perfect conditions with fish rising. First-half of day spent Euro-nymphing with great success up towards the rapids and channels from higher end. Latter part of day on dry-fly, with various takes off v. small March Browns, Adams, Peculiar and Iron Blu' Dun. Key to it seemed to be presentation - a right cast and drift produced a bite; a bad one did not - simples ! :) Also changing fly quite frequently to see what and how they were responding (CDCs produced nothing).

8 Trout, 6 Grayling

The river was very low (0.61) on the Erwood gauge so I left my salmon tackle at home and fished for trout instead. Surprisingly there were very few flies coming off so rises were few and far between, and I suspect they were actually grayling judging. I only fished a couple of hours but had two out-of-season grayling, both around 3/4lb-1lb and a small brownie. No salmon seen.

1 Trout, 2 Grayling

Good day no fish

Fishing slow for most of the later afternoon that I fished. Took small trout early on and then nothing more. Fished tight line nymph in deep run and took a great Chubb, (first for me). Waited for mixed hatch to materialise, various mayflies, olives and a few Danica coming off but fish didn't move much. Late in evening, approximately 9.00pm a few fish started to rise consistently on the flats and I was able to pick off two of those on dry fly (modified F fly). But the rise didn't really ever get going despite apparently a good number of insects on the water. One trout taken on long cast to consistent riser was a real cracker. Very pleased with the evening. Not large numbers but wonderful trying to target active fish on a broad flat near the top of the beat. Really enjoyed it thank you.

3 Trout, 1 Chub