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Very low here now , as you might expect and very silty too and very very quiet on top with fish and fly. Expected again!
Going very very slow along the river and prospecting in the likely spots with a 14 black foam beetle or klinkhammer got the attention of some fish though . Four to hand at 7" & 9"", 11" and a superbly spotted 14incher. V happy with that of course but also got bounced by a clonker for here at circa 2lb at least I reckon!! Wow.. A decent number of fish fluffed too.

Decent number of assorted bugs on the stones where the water was flowing well and the resident Kingfisher putting on some good flybys. It actually flew just under my nose the once when was bent over looking at the bugs ! Blimey...

Beer and food was fab up at the Crown as always, I was pitched up at Tan house farm campsite there.
All highly recommended.

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River quite low, but we found a few rising fish and had 3 hooked, only 1 to the net. It is sad to see the state of the river, the bottom is as bad as the Wye with algal growth and lack of healthy weed and clean gravel.

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River is running low and fishing is difficult. But despite the conditions, a few fish were catched. Fly of the day was a small dark klinkhammer size 16.

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Just lovely. Loads of fly life and a fair number of rising fish. One really decent trout brought to hand and a couple of long distance releases plus numerous splashy hits. Great fun.

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4 trout 8-11".two on the dry,small mayfly.

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After a couple of hours on the upper beat and a sandwich and cup of coffee while watching a couple of range tip butterflies feeding I decided on trying the lower Longtown beat. I’m glad I did.
There was another good hatch of fly at about 5.30. I lost a small fish and then managed to get into a bit underneath some trees for the best fish of the day.
There were a few mayflies in evidence.

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