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A pleasant but challenging day. River running fairly high and coloured but fishable. Working hard with deep nymphs all day, managed 2 WBT both around 9ins and 2 Grayling of similar size. A nice beat with very easy wading.

Fished from 6.00am till 12.00 noon - beautiful, tranquil amazing. You must offer some of the best wild fishing in the world.
Started off in the morning the water was around a foot above its normal level and also coloured up a wee bit. I fished nymphs up stream and czech nymph style and managed around seven grayling (small around 6/7 inch mark, fin perfect) great to see lots of young grayling. Also three brown trout, one of which was over a pound, a beautiful fish.
Thank you for a great weekend.

Just to let you know no fish caught on Thursday R.H

Sadly I couldn't choose the day of my visit to the Lyepole beat as I had to fit it around work. The weather was beautiful but unfortunately the river was very high and coloured. Wading was unsafe and the fishing was impossible. Tried everything but a nil return. Still beats work though! A good hatch of olives late on but only I could see them!

The only thing I succeeded in pulling out of the river was a lamb which had become trapped in a muddy bank near the weir. Pleased to say it was reunited with it’s mother. (Can I claim the first lamb to feature in a WUF catch return? I forgot to weigh it!)
The river was as full as I’ve seen it but reasonably clear. Little in the way of hatches. I only saw one fish feeding which I hooked (GRHE) but then lost.
The Wild Garlic was pungent (especially after a heavy hailstorm) and the Bluebells are beginning to show.

fished from 12.00pm to 4.00pm no fish caught , no fish seen, all the gear no idea, my hat goes off to all of you fly fisherman, it is so hard, i have fished all my life,barbel and chub,took up fly fishing for the close season a few years ago, its taken over my life,all i want to do now is fly fish,i will get it right,loved it

2x brown trout (3/4lb and 1/2lb) taken on nymphs (yellow sallie size 14, bead head Kern emerger 14). 1x grayling (1.5lb) taken on copper bead head nymph size 18/20. 1 x grayling (roughly 1lb) hooked but not landed taken on copper bead head nymph size 18/20. A stunning day fishing during which we both caught fish. We saw kingfishers. A hatch started about 2pm after the sun broke through early cloud, that had been preceded by a rainy, cold morning. Nothing taken on dries, or spiders, or surface emergers. All fish taken on indicator rigs in rifles or fast water. Best fish big old grayling. Rather manky thing its dorsal fin split 3/4 way down and bottom side of tail fin worn down and 'rounded'. Absence of bigger trout.

I caught 3 small grayling of about 6-7 inches and 2 trout: one of about 9 inches and the other, a good fish of about 13 inches. All fish safely returned. They were all caught on hare's ear nymphs except one of the Grayling on PTN. All action in the slack just beside a couple of streamy pool necks towards the top of the beat.

No fish caught. Saw only one rising fish all day. Access to banks on western end of beat not very easy - was with 10 year old son and not wearing waders. Not a problem, but would have been good to know. Himalayan balsam abundant in places - is there a control strategy on the Lugg?

A fantastic day weather wise wasn't quite matched by the fishing! 2 WBT caught on size 20 PTN's fished NZ style under a klinkhammer. Both small, about 6". A small hatch of olives early afternoon, but no fish seen rising all day. Tried dries in the flats, nymphs in the riffles and bugs in the holes, to no avail. Beautiful beat, saw a kingfisher doing a low flyby, which is always a nice sight. Thanks to Seth for pointing me in the direction of this lovely, tranquil beat.