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14 grayling of about 8"-10", three trout up to 10" and a couple of salmon parr on size 16 spiders and PTN. Weather: warm and humid with the odd shower.
Although several grayling took at or close to the surface, I suspect fish are starting to drop deeper.

3 Trout, 14 Grayling, 2 Other

Easy access and easy to find. Caught a whopper compared to what I normally get, around 18" and struggled to get it into my small landing net. It was caught on a pink gold head nymph size 18 on a new Zealand style rig. No fish rising but a lovely day as the fish I caught was in the morning.

1 Grayling

6 Trout, 21 Grayling

River very low. 1 wbt 6", 6 grayling 10" to 12" on variety of small dry flies. Must have missed 20 - not my day

1 Trout, 6 Grayling

Arrived about 11am and spent a fruitless hour fishing spiders in the fast water. Switching to dries (size 16 hare's ear emergers), I then caught grayling steadily from the glides below and above Lady Alexander's Catch until a stiffening downstream breeze stopped the fun at about 5pm. Caught 17, all returned, mostly 8-10" but 5 were over 12" and the best 16"; many more missed. Nice, straightforward fishing and worth the drive after weeks spent scratching around shrunken Cotswold streams.

17 Grayling

Only fished Lady Alexander's Catch pool. Overcast in morning, bright in afternoon. Lower access gate does not open cleanly; need to regrade the path surface. Fished well in morning with better fish being caught (grayling to 1.5lb) on bead head hares ear fly. Very difficult in the afternoon once sun came out but able to tease a few out of the deep fast water using heavy bugs and Czech nymphing.

1 Trout, 8 Grayling

1 Grayling

2 Trout, 6 Grayling

Wet most of the day, lovely stretch but not joy.

Water was looking good and I was quite hopeful for a salmon. Started with a Cascade and made several changes through the day, but I did not see any sign of a salmon. There was plenty of fly life and lots of rising fish so I changed to the trout rod in the late afternoon and had some fun with the trout and grayling. Best grayling about 14 inches and the trout included what was probably the smallest fish I have ever caught on a fly!

3 Trout, 5 Grayling