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The water was very cold, can't think why? BST starts tonight! Struggled with the wind & cloud, saw a few LDO coming off when the sun came out. Saw nothing rise.
The river looks like its ready to come to life, come on spring! 1 x Grayling @ 12ins.

1 Grayling

Very cold, no rising fish. Water running at about 1.5 depth at bank fast flow. Air temp around 1 degree.

Temperature just above 1 degree at 9am with a very cold easterly wind. No signs of life despite best efforts with bugs and nymphs. Lovely beat and suspect will fish better once warmed up, including myself!!

Great Spring day on the river no fish seen or 'felt', maybe should have toasted the water or something?! Possibly not surprising given temperature of river which apparently is below the sea temperature which itself is at an all time low of 7 degrees! Thanks again to Don for his invaluable advice, I'll be back!

Lovely day on the water. Very cold, but good to be out. Water temperature was 3 degrees all day. Air temp 4 degrees with freezing wind chill. The old kelly kettle and the sight of dippers kept spirits high. Reasonable LDO hatch at 1pm and some fish randomly rising at 3pm for about 5-10 minutes. In my excitement I managed to put all rising fish down, but it was still great be out on the water after a cold winter. Dippers, grey wagtails and much more all in attendance.... Many thanks WUF for another lovely day. No trout caught this time, but I will be back when water temperature is more conducive to feeding trout.

4 hours, very pleasant, but cold! Nothing caught. Saw a mink, might have eaten all the fish?

Artic conditions and snow on the hills. Wagtails and chiffchaffs enjoyed a few lunch time LDO's but the trout understandably did not. A useful couple of hours early season casting practice.

Freezing cold, water not great for fly, but caught a 12 lb springer spinning with a black flying 'C' on Beat 6. No fish showing and no one else fishing.

1 Salmon

Need I mention that it was another cold day? Water at 3 degrees. Not a fish nor an insect seen. After fishing all the likely water as deep as possible without a touch, in mid-afternoon made a final switch in tactics and caught 2 fish on successive casts in mid-water and that was it. It has been a week requiring persistance...

2 Trout

It is two years since I fished this beat and the access to the river has been greatly improved with a number of styles in place. I should have taken a wading stick (probably my age). It was cold but there was a hatch that got going around 11.30am which were small brown olives. I managed my only trout with a copper head brown nymph size 16 fished upstream with an indicator - size was around 1lb 1/4. As the day went on we found a still piece of water just down from the vicarage pool where fish were rising but our flies did not interest them. We met the owner who was very helpful as I had not fished the top end of the beat before. We packed in at 4.00pm as we were frozen.

1 Trout