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Warm day, few rising fish . Moderate breeze. Managed to get one good sized trout on a black cdc. No other fish caught.

1 Trout

No Salmon showing. Nice wild brown trout caught.

3 Trout

Two small brown trout caught on pheasant tail nymphs under an indicator. Some fish were taking dries on the evening rise but were hard to entice. Lovely day thank you.

2 Trout

Had a salmon ticket but only fished for trout. Took 3 on spiders - one very good fish - during the morning when there was very little happening on the surface. Water went very quiet in the warm bright afternoon. The evening was brilliant fishing - rises everywhere although hard to pin down what they were taking. Caught another three including a 2 lb fish at last light. Lovely beat - saw otter, kingfishers and enjoyed watching the bank swallows coming and going.

6 Trout

Went for an evenings trout fishing, but as tackling up saw a salmon head and tail, and then 20mins later another a bit futher downstream. I upgraded the ticket and broke out the salmon rod in the car and fished through the Rheld, right in the prime lie the line pulled away and after a good scrap a fresh fish of around 10lb graced the net. Thought I was in again in the Butts but it was a 2.5-3lb trout. Nothing was rising in the middle of the beat (Butts to Above Rheld) as the sandmartins were nabbing every single fly hatching and every dun and spinner in the air. Only place there were rising fish was at the bottom of the beat where there were no sand martins! In the 3ft vis highish water, most action was in water less than 2ft deep and they readily accepted a jingler fished in the film. Most on the small size with 1 of around 1.5lb.

1 Salmon, 6 Trout

3 Trout

River was rising and coloured up when I arrived, the weather was forecast for torrential rain and wind gusts of up to 35mph!! Thought I would chance it in case the forecast was as wrong it wasn’t! Should have stayed at home zero fish caught.

6 Trout

The rain after the dry spell coloured the water making wading difficult.
Horrible squally wind didn't help matters and made it a pretty miserable day.

Nil return today with this stretch of the river being practically unfishable this morning. River levels rose dramatically and coloured up after night time rainfall. These things happen !
Bob Clark.