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River refreshed by recent rains raised & slightly coloured. Fish more active on the surface. 3 BT caught several more lost before the net.

3 Trout

2 small browns on nymphs upstream of parking spot. 2 on dries between the 2 bridges late afternoon. One about 1/2 pound on mayfly emerger. A few risers in 2 of the long smooth stretches.

4 Trout

Started at 6pm, explored the bottom by the bridge for the first time and a few started rising from 7pm, refused dun, but took jingler when covered properly. Moved up, and on way up saw a salmon jump in the bottom pool by the wood. Found a major bit of spinner mopping going on in the long glide. 11 fish brough to hand in an hr, with several others lost. Relly nice mix of sizes from 8oz to 2lb. 4 where over a lb, 7 under. Saw a really big one (5lb+ jump) and half an hr later it started rising. It's back was enourmous, but I was 18" short when I tried to cover it and I caught its wingman which put it down. All the trout were fighting incrediby hard in the fresh water after the small rise. 8oz fish fought like pounders, the 2lber took me 8 mins to land. Massive hatch of caenis, blowing like snow into my face, but thankfully the fish were locked onto spinners from teh morning hatch and munched the #16 sparsely tied jingler when you got the drift right. It was still going on when I pulled out at 9.30pm.

15 Trout

2 Trout

Cloudy, windy and cold but a late hatch in the evening

3 Trout

One good size rainbow caught on a bibio fly on the point

1 Trout

Cloudy, windy and quite cold but a late hatch delivered some good sport. All fish returned

15 Trout

2 Trout

1 Trout

After rain the day before, the water dropped back quickly to what looked like summer level, though with some colour in it. Plenty of flies around too. Lovely day, but no bonanza of fish - just enough to keep interested. All caught on nymphs. I tried offering a dry fly to some of the rather few rises and had several 'expressions of interest' but no real take. Probably offering the wrong fly - I was using a daddy long legs.

6 Trout