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Cold east wind, dull with low cloud. Just a short flurry of LDOs around 1400, but few fish rising to them. Very difficult fishing. First time I’ve ever blanked on this usually productive beat. Spring seemed to have been put on hold.

Bright sunlight and a stiff downstream breeze presented a challenge. We managed 2 trout, - one taken with a nymph, one off the top. Both fish safely returned.

2 Trout

River crystal clear and good level. Warm day with very little westerly breeze and sunny. LDO trickle hatch from 11:30 but fish did not rise to them. From 12 till 13:30 there was a fantastic hatch of MB and the trout were hammering them on the surface. Between the 2 of us we had 22, the smallest 3/4lb and the largest 2.5lb. Fantastic day’s fishing!

22 Trout

Lovely day but little action. March brown hatch for 20 minutes around 11.30 switched to a dry March Brown and missed a big and aggressive take. Hatch went off and little else all day. Tried various locations and fly types but no sign of any life - still a great day though!

Not a great start to the season. Very wet and windy so I only fished for an hour or so. The only rise I saw was a cormorant which appeared at my feet. Both of us were very surprised!

1 Trout

Very bright conditions. Hard work but enjoyable

5 Trout

Bright conditions

5 Trout

Very bright. Breathless. 1 wbt early on before the sun burnt the mist away. 2 on for a while and then off. Then just got very bright and tricky. Pulled stumps at 2pm to get back to London.

1 Trout

River slightly coloured but back to normal levels after heavy rain over Fri/Sat. Clear and bright weather conditions, light breeze, with temperature of 15C. Sporadic olive hatch from around 15:00 but only two rises from small trout seen. No sign of nymphing fish.

Worked all the wadable sections of the beat with nymph and dry fly - but no success