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The river was still running a bit high but was clear and just about fishable although wading against the current was hard work. It was a good day despite an early finish due to wading boot failure! The biggest grayling took a pink shrimp and gave me a new pb. The net in the photo is 15" long. That fish and another bore signs of probable cormorant damage as can be seen in the photo. Other successful flies were a ptn and squirmy wormy ( sorry OB!).

4 Grayling, 1 Other

Unable to fish, wash off river to high and coloured

Booked this in the hope of getting some fishing in over the holiday period, however it was unfortunately a wash-off - river was high, fast & coloured. Lovely setting, look forward to trying it in more suitable weather.

Didn't fish, too much water

Lovely five hours on the lugg, cold day at lyepole not rising above 1 degree. The sun was up though which was very pleasing. All grayling taking shrimp and gammarus patterns in natural colours fished on the river bed. Grayling ranged from 7- 16 inches with the majority around the 10-12 inch mark.

30 Grayling

Very hard going today 3 small grayling to nymphs. Lost a few slipping the hook before I could bring them to hand. A small hatch of dark olives appeared around mid day. Saw a couple of small grayling rise so switched to dry fly for and hour but no response. In hindsight I could have done with a few more heavier nymphs as they only seemed interested in taking nymphs bouncing bottom.

3 Grayling

Once again a lovely stretch of water, but high levels and flows together with lots of colour put the fish off. Hopefully next time our trip will be more productive when conditions are more favourable.

Our timing was not the best as the beat was flooded! The water was really high and badly coloured. (Checked the Lugg gage and thought it was alright. Apparently it was the misjudgement on our part.) However, having driven for 2hrs from Bristol, we decided to fish it anyway. The flow was really strong. A 4mm tungsten bead did not reach the bottom. At the end, we had to either bunch the heavy bugs very close together or to add split shots to the cast. My mate had two on squirmy worm and black heavy bug. I only had one on UV ping tag but it was a giant; measuring 15inch and my new PB. Not expect this on a tough condition. So a happy day!

3 Grayling

A combination of not making it to the river until 1430 and my own inability to fish resulted in one grayling. Caught on a size 12 shrimp. My first time to this beat so learning the pools. A bit of colour to the water but still fairly clear and easily wadeable.

1 Grayling