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2 trouts about 20 cm. Flyfishing. Also 15.6. I fished same beat. Few long distance releases. Flyfishing.

6 x trout 6-15 inches, on a size 16 Bastard Adams. A very enjoyable dry fly morning, including a nice brace of 15 inch fish while one of those "mixed hatches" of various olive species was going on. I had to leave at lunchtime, but by then it was over 20 degrees in bright sunshine. Suddenly it's summer.

3 brown trout all about 1/2 lb all caught on GRHE. All fish released.

With flow over the gauge it was un-fishable for trout. So went to Wentwood Res. instead, stood in the rain for most of the day, and had four fine rainbows each.

A good afternoon's fishing with 2 brown trout sizes 3/4 lb and 1 3/4 lb taken on an olive klinkhammer.

Nothing caught.
It was a cold May day with no hatches seen.
Fishing nymphs I had a few missed takes. I was surprised to lose 3 flies during takes and was using Frog Hair tippet x7 for the first time.

8 x trout 6-15 inches, various spiders and Dark Olive Sparkle Dun. A short but busy large dark olive hatch on a day of cold winds and showers. And for 10 minutes I played a really nice big trout, hooked on the point with a Hare's Lug and Plover, which after all sorts of acrobatics unexpectedly dropped off at the last moment. Didn't Isaac Walton say something about what you never had, you cannot consider lost? Not much of a consolation!

9 x trout 8-15 inches on spiders. Fairly high water, though not quite a flood and not too coloured. A very cold downstream wind and sunshine alternating with showers, fish initially reluctant to rise, had me fishing wet flies down and across. The problem with this is that trout tend to be lightly hooked. I lost more than I netted. Large dark olives hatched after lunch and, very briefly, a few march browns. On the subject of flies, the hawthorn trailing its black legs is now about - the first I have seen this year and well before St Mark's Day. And the martins have arrived.

No fish caught.

Nil cought, low, clear water, no hatch......but lovely day...maybe next time. Thanks to WUF.