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4 Trout

Slightly bad timing as the long, dry spell ended today and was replaced by windy, threatening conditions. However, it was still mild with plenty of insects hatching and fish feeding. Lost an absolute clonker which broke me. Must up my leader tippet from 4 to 5lbs. Fish feeding just subsurface on emerging nymphs which I failed to replicate. Stuck to dry fly and tried all sorts but without much success. I’ll be back!

Nothing, not a single bait tried everything spinning, float, worm popped of bottom and fly.

A more overcast day today with a nagging downstream wind. Very little fly activity in the afternoon though a fish of a little over a pound was taken in the fast water run below the bridge and a very small trout on a PTN too. We crossed the (extremely low) river and explored the farm flats at the bottom of the beat in the evening. Thankfully it was much more sheltered there and there was a better hatch and, eventually rising fish. The hatch was a bit of everything, mayflies, olive spinners and sundry tiny flies. We couldn’t (again) seem to work out what they were taking. But, at around 8.30, I put on a small sedge -even though I couldn’t see any hatching, and cast to a regular riser close into the bank, downstream of a pile of dead wood. The tiny riseforms were misleading. One battle later, a very fat two and a quarter pounder was in the net. A cracking fish and great fun. Final day of our trip today and the wind is really up. Crossing our fingers…

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Very little water still. Overnight rain had not shifted it. I kept waiting for a rise, but by 6.30pm nothing to speak of. Maybe if I'd stayed a couple of hours more? Caught one tiddler.

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Small brown trout caught on worm and returned safely

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Fished just before the bend below the tower using a worm on a bubble float with 15 inch leader.

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