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hard going pressured the day before, fish in the pools fish very spooky moving away from the nymph picked up fish in the pocket water and deep gutters

1 Trout, 9 Grayling

3 lost, nymphs water low and clear, site fishing to fussy grayling, hard work but good fun.

7 Grayling

I spent most of the day on the top half, with the pocket water fishing well carrying a good flow of cold water from the Elan dam release. The usual plan of attack with long leader nymphs in the morning and Dries in the afternoon which unfortunately was cut short by heavy rain, a black foam beetle pattern was getting a lot of interest.The Grayling were all of a good size with a 17"+ the largest, the best trout was 16" and in fine condition.

12 Trout, 22 Grayling

My first visit to this beat - and a generally favourable impression

I note that the other angler on the beat thought there was compensation water in the river. With no reference point, I did not appreciate this at the time - but the water certainly felt cold

Anxious to explore the whole of the beat, I may have rushed through productive water and spent too long walking the bank and/or fishing skinny water (very much a case of "what's around the next bend?"). Most of my fish came from the bottom of the beat. Quality fish - a few smaller fish; but everything else was 12" plus, with a couple at 14" plus. As my old mate Tom Dixon would say "about a pound". Mind you, with Tom, anything that he catches over 8" long is "about a pound"

Fished a team of spiders - with most of the fish coming to the point fly

15 Grayling

Lovely days fishing, all fish caught on the French leader bar one trout caught on drys.

3 Trout, 18 Grayling

Fantastic day on my favourite grayling fishery. Early start as I knew the rain the day before would raise the river, but also knew it would drop very quickly. Most fish taken on either an olive or grey nymph fished in or around the faster water. The grayling size were varied from 6" to 18", but it was the trout that surprised me. Not know to be big on this beat from previous experiences, but the average size was between 14 and 18" with a few obligatory small ones. It was a fantastical and meet two other anglers on the beat both catching good sized grayling. Can wait for the water level gets back up again.

11 Trout, 15 Grayling

Great day on this lovely stretch of river. Wading is tricky because of the boulders but even with so little rain recently and low and clear conditions there was plenty of opportunities with deep runs and pocket water.
Not a fish rose all day but the Grayling seemed happy to come from deep and smash my dry fly. One fish actually lept at it as I picked off to recast! All caught on a pale 16 Adams. All good size fish too and fin perfect.

4 Grayling

Ongoing heat wave, one brown trout at about 8”, the other three at about 4”, caught trying to fish spiders across and down.

4 Trout