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A blank day, and a wet one! This beat seems to me best for dry-fly fishing in terms of the water, but inaccessible for bank fishing. Therefore only fishable where shallow enough to wade. There were lots of rising fish in the deep water, but unreachable as far as I could see!

Four good-sized trout hooked on twitched mayfly fished in the margins but all came off - had to adapt as slow-moving gin clear water made conventional approach very difficult with so much real fly life to compete with - could see fish coming up and rejecting what I though to be very good matches on ultra-light sunk leader with zero drag. This is a lovely beat with a good mix of water and no dog walkers. Will easily accommodate the maximum rod number. Other rod also struggled to compete with the rich fly life coming off, but neither of us cared as just being on this beat is enough.

Plenty of fly life although very few fish taking off surface - 1 trout 14" on nymph fished Euro style

1 Trout

6 Trout

7 Trout

Fished morning only due to other commitments nothing moving but still lots of fly life
a blank few hours

Lots of fly on the water and fish rising but incredibly difficult to work out what they were taking. Lots of patterns used to no avail 2 taken on nymphs 2 on dry, best fish 1 lb 12 oz on a dry

4 Trout

Lots of fly life, but none could be tempted to take off the top. All fish caught using nymphs, and all returned.

7 Trout

Warm and breezy. Challenging fishing with endless fly changes. The majority or rises were to tiny spent flies drifting past, like a endless conveyor. Almost impossible to imitate. The only deviation to a natural fly, fluttering on the surface. 3 fish to 1lb for 2 rods.

3 Trout

A few Yellow May Duns coming off right from the outset, these were soon joined by Olives of all sizes, the fly life seemed to build to a crescendo at around 3:30pm by this this time there were Mayflies, and even a hatch of March Browns, lovely to see so many types of fly in one day. By 4pm all had gone a little quiet except for the Yellow May Duns which continued to trickle off all afternoon. The fishing was difficult despite the fly life, rising fish would generally disappear as soon as you got near, I noticed in the Catch Returns there have been a lot of fish caught in the past few weeks so perhaps they’re getting a bit weary...or maybe it was the bright sunshine, either way I managed 4 to 12 inches today but enjoyed the challenge and missed way too many, lost a few too including one really big fish right at the end.

4 Trout