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Penpont looking lovely in the May sunshine....although squally showers from time time dropped the temperature significantly. We were on the river about 11.00 to find localised heavy hatches of March Browns - never seen so many before, fantastic ! Also large dark olives and occasional large stoneflies.

Fish looked up in hatches but still a challenge - PB lost all 3 hooked to long distance catch and release but JB brought all his to hand - 8", and 2 Penpont Porkers - 22 and 26". To be fair the 22" was a fat porker, the 26" probably weighed less as despite being full finned it was thin and had prominent teeth - probably an older fish struggling to get back to condition. All on dries.

Many thanks for a great day.

3 Trout

9 Trout

Didn’t fish

Coloured water

2 Trout

2 Trout

Wet and cold at times with only sporadic fly life seen. Despite that all 4 anglers caught fish, mostly on nymphs (duo and French leader) with 6 caught on dries. Lovely part of the world. Wading difficult at times though.

23 Trout

Very little fly despite nice calm overcast conditions, so not much surface activity. Aside from a very feisty 17”er, the fish were small. Most caught on nymph.

8 Trout

2 Trout

Evening fish, 5.00pm - 8.00. Bright sunshine with slight breeze, fished the far bank in the deeper slower moving water. No hatch and nothing rising so fished #14 black spider and bibio sub surface, but no interest. Saw one fish head & tail, but that was it! Beautiful beat, unfortunately not the right time to fish it that day!