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River had cleared slightly since yesterday. 15 degrees C blustery with showers. Caught all fish on upstream bead head nymph and saw very few rising fish. A bit of a rise to small olives at 3.00pm but couldn't catch them on dries.
A lovely beat with varying character and will definitely come again and hope for more settled weather. Plenty of fish anyway - biggest 14", others averaged about 8-10".

12 Trout

Cool start but olives hatching and we caught fish. Sun burns though clouds olives stop and we stop catching, hard from then on. Nymphs caught but it was slow and hot, this weather of ours? More fish to olives in evening but temp dropped big time and the rise stopped. Nice fish caught, all returned, will fish this beat again. 12 fish returned.

12 Trout

Fish rising in the morning to olives but activity declined during the main part of the day. Fish became much more active in the evening when the two best fish of 2 lb and 2.5 lb were taken. Flies were an emerger olive and a Dogsbody variant. Bright and sunny during the main part of the day. Olives and Mayflies main hatches. A challenging but ultimately very rewarding day on a beautiful stretch of river.

22 Trout

Used a mix of wet and dry flies - spiders and nymphs were used, but greater success came using a tungsten hare's ear, catching two wonderful 2lb and 4lb brown trout. Dry fly used was the oliver emerger, and was successful in catching 2 very small trout.

4 Trout

A beautiful stretch of river and with genuinely easy access for more mature trout fishers. Very few rises despite plenty of food coming down. Lovely fishing but tough catching.

2 Trout

7 brown trout to 16 inches on size 14 Dogsbody (dry) and a size 14 pheasant tail nymph with 2.8mm black tungsten bead.

7 Trout

Wind made things difficult.Very little rising, 4 trout on nymphs. Best 12 and 15 inches.

4 Trout

Last minute booking it was 11am before on the water. Arrival coincided with the start of a hatch of olives and some March Browns. The fish responded and rose vigorously. Took 9 quality fish .75 to 2.25 lbs on hares ear cdc shuttlecock in an hour and a quarter before the hatch and rise faded. After lunch it was a matter of hunting the odd 'oncer' rising here and there. A quality day on a grand stretch of river.

14 Trout

More than 20 trout. From 4oz to a pound and a half. All safely returned. Taken on a dry fly (Adams type) mainly fished "blind" in riffly water. Easy access and day would have been even better had the river not been high and coloured when we arrived.

20 Trout

All fish released from barbless hooks. Raining heavily on and off most of day but fish free rising to a steady stream of olives from late morning onwards. 3 fish on copper john nymph but remainder on dry fly. 3 best fish all about 2lb and only 2 were under 1/2 pound with the remaining 13 1-1.5lb. excellent sport. One fish of about a pound had healed gashes on both flanks from (I suspect) goosander or cormorant. Neither bird seen on this occasion though.

18 Trout