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8 Trout

Lovely day on the river, stayed fairly fine and bright most of the day with occasional showers. The water level was lower than the average but clear, cold and fast flowing. We caught 2 trout (half pounder and a juvenile) and the grayling was about 14 inches.
Fish were caught during the 30 minutes of activity between 1pm and 1.30pm whilst the large up-wing hatch was going on, which was fairly spectacular. Alas it didn't last and all went quiet again for the rest of the afternoon.
Really enjoyed the beat which had lots of variety with rapids, falls, glides, pools and long sow sections.
That said, we only caught on dries during the early afternoon hatch.

2 Trout, 1 Grayling

Beautiful day, but fishing was hard. Despite the odd hatch around lunchtime, no sign of any fish rising. In fact no evidence of any trout at all. One small grayling, unaware that the season was over, fell to large weighted nymph hard on the bottom of a deep pool. The other catch a small salmon parr. Memorable bacon sandwiches and cardamom chicken curry for lunch though!!

1 Grayling, 1 Other

One OS grayling 1.5lb, one salmon par, no sign of any trout today. Weather mixed.

1 Grayling, 1 Other

River looking good with gin clear water. Nice, warm day but surprisingly no activity and no signs of rising fish. Caught a nice trout on streamer and a small grayling on a dry March Brown.

1 Trout, 1 Grayling

Beautiful day to be back out on the rivers. With hope of some warm sun and lower levels we expected to see a few fish moving about. We saw nothing rise all day but we did manage to catch. All fish came to PTNs fished through reasonably fast water. One of the trout was well over 3lbs and ended up straightening the hook! Makes a real change to fly fish this water - it takes on a whole new dimension over trotting a float. All fish returned.

3 Trout, 1 Grayling

Excellent conditions and weather, trotting maggots and fly fishing. Both methods successful, best fish was a grayling of 2lb 6ozs. Contact numbers very helpful, gave us great advice, phoned a river report on the morning of our visit and met us at the parking spot. Perfect! Thank you, will visit again.

2 Trout, 5 Grayling

Our first trip to the river of 2014 thanks to the dire conditions since December. 13 fish to the net between the three of us and we just love this beat.
Conditions weren't quite the best but after starving ourselves of fishing we jumped at the chance thanks to the break in the weather.
A great day with great fishing buddies and on a great river.

6 Trout, 7 Grayling

Struggled with the leaves today, no fish, just a good day off work!

Two small grayling in the morning,and two 16" grayling about 3pm on a grhe goldhead, water was crystal clear. Also three salmon seen.

4 Grayling