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Arrived at about 11 and spend a wonderfuil morning practicing my casting when a decent rise of LDO or March Browns (entymology not my forte')emerged at about 12:30 no sign of fishy activity until i got out of the water for a spot of lunch when the surface came alive with trout a-leapin and a-gambolling all over the place in the area around the 'Quarry'.
Refastened waters etc and strode purposefully off towards potential quarry(pun?)and by the time I launched first cast the whole area died - so went back to casting practice.
I did have a very pleasant day and will continue to do so in the future I am sure, and one day may catch something

Caught 2 and lost 3.

2 Trout

No salmon seen.

Fished from 8am until 1pm on various nymphs with no success. There were two elderly gentleman fishing the other bank with spinners wasn't aware that was allowed at this time of year.
Lovely beat just didnt see or touch a fish. Hopefully will come back again with more success.

Found the river slightly up and coloured but fishable. Started at the bottom of the stretch and between 11am and 12pm witnessed a phenomenal hatch of sedge (grannom?) in one pool. The water came alive with several sizable fish taking the flies with reckless abandon but could I catch one? No. I drifted every sedge imitation in my box over their noses but not an offer. Other than that, I fished the whole stretch up and down and without a touch, nor did the other angler on the water that day. All in all a frustating day compensated by glorious sunshine and scenery.
WUF Note: Trout feed on the grannom emerger and usually ignore dry sedge flies.

1 Grayling

Lovely day out on beats 1 (morning) and 3 (afternoon). My first time out with a Salmon rod, so not anticipating to catch, and in that I was not disappointed, as I didn't catch. But I had a great time, thoroughly enjoyed the beats, and look forwards to catching a Salmon next time! Many thanks to Terry for excellent advice.

Lovely day; fairly warm and mostly sunny. No trout rising despite a good hatch of olive duns. Two small trout, one on a beadhead PT the other on a dark olive spider.

2 Trout

On spinner. The range is surface. Or just 4 secs count-down. All of them were released.

6 Trout

Nice weather but the fishing wasn't so good. No fish caught, no hits or follows. Only saw one rise the whole time I was there. Very unusual for this beat as its normally teeming with fish. Maybe its the time of year?

Still had a good day out in the countryside and peace and quiet!