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An overcast day, quite warm and humid. Water glassy as no breeze at all. Fish not showing.
One very good size grayling caught on a pheasant tail nymph.

1 Grayling

All small and caught on dry f-flies

1 Trout, 2 Grayling

Some mayfly hatching in late afternoon. Two grayling caught and released on spider and nymph. I only saw two rising fish and caught one, a brown trout on a grey wulf. Another brown trout caught on pearl spider. All released.

2 Trout, 2 Grayling

River cloured and general rain. Nothing rising. Three fish caught and another three lost. All takes on nymphs.

2 Trout, 1 Grayling

It had been a few years since I last fished at Lyepole, a beautiful piece or river tucked away in a dramatic valley. The Lugg was perfect at 1ft 3ins on the gauge but the blue sky & bright sunshine probably made the fish wary. However after five hours of fishing a duo of Klinkhammer & nymph ten fish were caught, all bar one on the nymph. Expected more but a wonderful time surrounded by nature.

7 Trout, 3 Grayling

1 Trout

river up over 1 ft 6 which made for a challenging few hours.six around twelve inches with two at 17 inches

8 Grayling

A cold day which may have had an effect on the fish which were unusually scarce. Two small ones caught, one on a pink shrimp the other on a peeping caddis. Glad to get back to the car and warm up!

2 Grayling

What a difference 7 months can make! I fished this beat back in June 2017 and had my best ever day of fly fishing, with 50+ fish, and Grayling virtually throwing themselves onto my hook! This time it was a different story... zero fish... not even a sniff. I'm not sure what I was doing wrong, but the fish weren't interested in any of my attempts.

A beautiful, but very cold day, the ground stayed frozen in the shadows all the whole time. I walked all of the beat, trying out various sections that looked 'right', and places I have caught before. The river was high (around 65cm on the Lugg gauge (I know this is the Arrow), with a good strong flow to it. A nice bit of colour, but relatively clear. I tried fishing sections in deep shade, then full sunlight, and then when it became overcast. Tried various nymphs of a Klinkhammer indicator, but it was not to be my day.

River was a tad high still, and running quite cloudy. Beautiful beat, only fished for 1.5 hrs on top half. Hooked 1 OOS trout, otherwise blanked.