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The fish were rising at the lower end of the beat, but couldn’t understand what they were taking and tried without success on a variety of dries. There were some hatches during the day which didn’t seem of interest to the Trout. Fished the slightly deeper water half way up the beat with a nymph and had two small fish and two takes.

2 Trout

Mixed hatch till early pm. Tricky rising fish at flat tails of pools

3 Trout

One on a pt nymph under a dry, the other on an emeger. Both over 2lb. >18”

2 Trout

Tough fishing due to limited river entry points. Caught a decent brown trout about 1.5lbs. Pod of fish rising in the last hour - infuriating!

3 Trout

Sunny day, but wind still in the north. Saw hardly any rises in a morning session, but caught three tiddlers on nymphs. By the evening a lot more fish in evidence, but they weren't taking what I offered them, either nymphs or dry. Caught one more.

4 Trout

A completely different day to yesterday. The cold wind had dropped and the air temp was a few degrees higher as a result. There were fish active throughout the beat as we arrived at around 10am, which continued up until our departure at 3pm. A few true Mays were spotted among the yellow Mays and a good number and variety of olives. Many of the trout were caught on cdc olive emerger patterns. Klinkhammers also worked in faster water with some fish coming to nymph too. We ended up with 17 trout to just over 2.5lb, all returned.

17 Trout

Tough day with cold downstream wind restricting fly hatches. 7 trout caught, biggest was around 1.25lb, all returned.

7 Trout

Overcast with sunny intervals, no wind. River in perfect condition. Huge hatch of olives from around 11:30 to 14:30. Also some March Browns, a short burst of Hawthorn Fly and the occasional Mayfly. Fish rising on the flats at either end of the main pools. No obvious activity in the faster riffles. Lots of fish coming up to my fly but swerving away at the last moment. The occasional take, which was swiftly rejected. Worked through the olive patterns in my fly box. What worked was a standard light olive but on size 16 hook. I think the clear calm conditions on the flats gave the fish too much time to check out my fly-tying skills. Two nice WBT to the net. A thunderstorm at 14:30 put an end to the hatch and the day's fun. It's a long walk in the rain back to the car park at Ashford House !

2 Trout

Mostly cloudy day, with light winds. Fished dry all day, and had 7 trout in the net of varying size. Lost at least that many, just couldn't keep them on the hook today.

7 Trout

1 Trout