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Enjoyable day out wind cold water cold and nothing caught

No fish today

Nothing caught today BUT i'm not sure if I saw a fish follow my spinner in Heriog pool got the juices flowing

9 x trout 6-10 inches, Goldbead Hare's Ear. Severn tributaries open today, and this is one of three local to me. I had to fish early so started in a frost - not quite ideal - with upstream nymph, and found a few fish in the runs. Surprised to see one fish rising. The stream is looking somewhat battered by late winter floods (the last one went over 2 metres) and there is one fallen branch which necessitates getting out of the channel and going round by the bank. The channel itself is clear but look out for barbed wire on the banks where fences have been knocked down.

9 Trout

river still a bit high, fished for a couple of hours nothing caught or seen

Well observed the restrictions, stayed local and obviously fished on my own . Opted for the Noke beat , bit cold this morning so wasnt in a mad rush too get there , arriving at about half ten ; bit of sun too then slightly warming things up !! I did see some insect life at about midday too . . . .

Wow here has had a severe haircut , masses of trees down hopefully improve this beat no end come Summer time . . . A cracking job done I must say,.although on the first field electric fencing is around it now so take care !!!

On to the fishing, only selected deep holes today and during my quick two hour session was nice to hook up into two brownies, both about eight inches on tungsten nymphs , cracking stuff !! Did for a time have lump on , had a feeling it was one of Nokes good grayling !! Boy did he put a bend in the rod !!!

Anyway a fun two and a half hours albeit still flowing a bit pokey here . Was reading .39 on the gauge last night when I looked . Needs another good week of no rain me thinks !! Somehow I doubt that's going to happen . . . Anyway a nice opening sortie on the Wild Streams , look forward to my next session , happy days!!

2 Trout

Great to be out on a lovely early spring day. A couple to nymphs, but there was a 10-15 minute window at about 3pm when the trout switched on to March Browns and I had 3 takes of a big DHE style fly in 10mins, two stuck - best probably 15". A few minutes later - all over. Well worth the couple of miles walk!

4 Trout

7 Trout 8inches to 14 inches a bit on the lean side but to be expected for the time of year

7 Trout

6 Grayling

1 Pike