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The river was carrying a little colour but the level was still at 4-5” despite the overnight rain that was forecast. Overcast conditions kept the water temperature reasonable for trout fishing but I did take a number of readings to check throughout the day.
The trout were mainly small but with five or six in the 8-11” bracket, and the grayling included two of 2-21/2lb from Herons. Fish taken from the off on a range of wets and spiders. Size 18 GRHE nymphs also successful. All quickly returned and not netted.I stayed around hoping for a spinner fall late on. Nothing materialised although the sultry conditions were promising.
A very pleasant day despite the slightly limited fishable water.

18 Trout, 5 Grayling

Arrived around midday conditions very hot and sunny. Tried below the bridge at the lower end of the beat, rivers was running a brownish peat colour may have been a release of water from a reservoir somewhere up stream.
Nothing doing at all.

By 16.00 the water cleared a little and for the next 90 or so minutes fish started to move and take off the surface. A size 16 grey wolf and black knat on the dropper attracted plenty of attention. Trout circa 8 to 10 inches, Grayling circa 10 inches. All returned unharmed.

7 Trout, 8 Grayling

Great afternoon. Energetic little brownie. Caught two, could have caught many more, but thought I would try for salmon. I had a knock, much to my surprise and the hook snapped. Could have been a very large trout, but I believe I saw enough silver to think what might have been!

2 Trout

Water looked perfect apart from the obvious heat and bright sunshine. No fish seen, netted a nice 2lb brownie, returned, a chub and a sparkling Shad.
Lovely few days on the river

1 Trout, 1 Chub, 1 Other

Hot and sunny, and river very low. Lovely beat - plenty of water to explore. Sorry to the grayling for disturbing their off-season

2 Trout, 5 Grayling

Nil

Nil

Lovely evening with friends, upstream wind didn't help with casting or hatches. Very low water but a good chance to see potential lies when we get a rise. Thoroughly enjoyable.

1 Trout

Tricky fishing in still bright conditions. Fish feeding on a variety of flies with every fish wanting something different. Later on they switched on to grannom. Was a little under gunned with only a 3 weight to get over to rising fish. All in all a lovely beat though.

6 Trout

So I was asked by Tim (South African world fly-fishing team member) and his mate Peter over from South Africa , we visit this old haunt of mine for must be coming up 30 years , very trick downstream wind and Tim had given Peter his rod with 20ft leader Tough. shortened it down a little and mixed it up with a few techniques that Peter was not familiar with more of a story on my facebook page flyfishingwales we caught 12 trout , 3 shad (wye Tarpon) 1 Chubb, 6 grayling

12 Trout, 6 Grayling, 1 Chub, 3 Other