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A shared rod, booked lower and middle beats. Parked at middle beat and walked down to just above camp site on lower. Access limited fishing but still found enough to bring three wbt 6-8 ins to hand. Abundant fly life through the beat but nothing taking the yellow and white mayfly. A certain confusion was caused at a pool on a bend where frenzied feeding was taking place but could not work out what on, tried all but to no avail. All others fell to a "Grizzly" , new to me and blue/ grey para Adam size 16. All returned safely.

3 Trout

Following on from lower beat a shared rod covered half a mile on this , one of my favourite steams, and also a first time on the Dulas for AB. 8 wbt to hand 6-10 ins, massive fly life, saw just one May taken by a greedy little bugger at a second attempt, still makes me smile witnessing this. 5 AM start began to take its toll so retired to take on the climb back up, knowing there was still more of the beat and the absolute certainty of more fine wild stream fishing to have boosted the catch return. The Mayfly hatch is something to behold here, I'll be back again for , I think, the fourth time over the past few years and AB is a certain returnee.

8 Trout

2 fish 10 and 14 inches on dry CDC olives. Fish rising everywhere to over 3lb. persuading them???

2 Trout

4 Other

Did not fish. After speaking with Mick the keeper/ghillie about current conditions (primarily the algal bloom) we decided against driving a collective 600+ miles. Will be back when conditions improve!!

Presumably, according to the powers that be at least, the algal bloom is 'a naturally occurring event'?

Caught 2 average sized rainbows on mepps spinner, weather sunny

2 Trout

Nothing caught, lots of fish seen!

2 small trout caught but returned. Not many fish to be seen most of the day. Small brownish nymph and Black nymph with head worked once each.

2 Trout

Nothing doing, principally because I became aware that there was a bull in the field and thought it best to beat a retreat.

A pleasant day on this beautiful stretch of river. 2 WBT caught on a gold head pheasant tail and one lost, should have fished with it all day but persevered with dries to the occasional rising fish but couldn't tempt a take.

2 Trout