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River coloured from recent rain, but enjoyable few hours

One 12" brown trout caught and released. Plenty of activity. Dry fly. River conditions perfect. Beautiful specimen. Will definitely be coming again.

1 Trout

Dry fly. Good water conditions.

1 Trout

The easterly wind made life difficult today being both cold and blustery. We started on klink and dink accounting for a small wbt and an out of season grayling. There was very little fly life hatching and consequently few fish topping. Around 3 pm there was a brief hatch and we took wbt and grayling up to 1lb.
Overall a satisfying day as every fish caught was hard earned. The wildlife was incredible today with bunting and Wagtail's performing acrobatics, catching the flies hatching off the river. Thank you Wendy for your help in booking this beat.

5 Trout, 3 Grayling

Beautiful beat with a lovely mix of features. Cool and breezy conditions with surprisingly good hatches for most of the day including a healthy number of mayfly, but not many fish rising. Some evidence of otter presence so maybe the ace fishermen beat me to the catch.
Took one of the top with an emerger pattern about half way down the beat and one on a heavy nymph in the pool above the bottom weir, both about 10 inches.

2 Trout

Managed to find a few sheltered areas out of the wind including an expedition into the jungle at the top of the beat. Tight up there for casting but floated a large pheasant tail nymph down a glide to pickup a chubby and hard fighting 10 inch WBT. Picked up 3 others and a grayling on a mixture of nymph and mayfly.

4 Trout, 1 Grayling

Nice beat in lovely setting, fished from 7 until 2 with a few rises in the morning before all went quiet.

Good fun on a mayfly with several rises and fish hooked and lost. The bottom weir pool, despite it being teeming with flies and mayflies, seemed devoid of fish with nothing rising whatsoever, although on my second approach to it what appeared to be a family of goosanders in the distance where scattering away.

1 Trout, 1 Grayling

We were determined to have an evening on this beat in Mayfly time having already fished it earlier in the season. Looking at the webcams the Lugg system was possibly the only part of the catchment fishable on the day and the forecast predicted the houlie that had been blowing for the last 24 hours might subside - well it didn't until about 9.30! But that didn't stop a very pleasant couple of hours evening fishing. No visible hatch or rises early on and a significant chop on the river so minor tactics were implemented - mayfly skating! And very effective too in the shallower runs at the top of pools - 3 nice fish to 14" on this tactic and twice as many lost as the fly was usually downstream at the take. JB then homed in on his favourite run at last knockings - 10.00! - to take two more 14" ers on conventional drifting fly tactics. So that was 5 to hand on the evening - well worth the drive over. Water voles for company too and the full moon with spectacular moonbeams through the clouds on the drive home added to the trip. Many thanks to Wendy in the office for last minute booking - and the web cams along with the rainfall radar web site do make it possible to work out what is fishable with a degree of certainty.

5 Trout

Slow start on the morning, not much showing at all, come the afternoon was alive with fish feeding on the mayfly .....

1 Trout, 1 Grayling