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First time at Ashford House for some time and, although it’s still early spring, it looks like access to the river has been improved a little. The landowner needs congratulating as the first meadow is looking lovely being full of wild flowers, hopefully this is deliberate and will continue to improve.
Very few fish seen, the first rose during a brief hatch of March Browns and took my fly first time but I missed it. The second was spotted on a shallow glide rising intermittently and took a dry after a bit of stealthy positioning and casting. The resulting fish put up a good fight and was a good size but unfortunately was in terrible condition with sores to one side and a damaged dorsal fin.
Headed home not long after catching as despite being mostly warm and sunny a brisk downstream wind was making presentation difficult.

1 Trout

2 Trout

A beautiful spring day with finally some warmth, which I thought would bring the fish and fly life on.
Sadly the rain overnight meant the water was quite cool. Only 1 fish today take on a nymph no evidence of rising fish. This was taken between the bridges.
After lunch I ventured upstream where there was evidence of some quite severe tree felling.
This will let the light into the stream and will grow back to provide cover for the trout, but I fear this will take some years.

1 Trout

3 Trout

Nice place, fished bottom end just the one very lively trout on a diawl bach pulled through on a slow retrive. A few rises around but not enough to try the dries.

1 Trout

Fishing wet flies in the morning then switched to upstream nymphing in the afternoon. Had a couple of bites and one nice fish hooked which shook off a barbless peeping caddis.

River running at 1 ft ideal Penpont conditions. The quality of trout in this beat is amazing, if you can unlock the the catching method, not a rise all day, but French leader with smallish size 18 flies, with fish sitting in fast riffles/ pocket water, gave fantastic sport. 3 fish above 18 inches.rest 12 to 16.

18 Trout

Both anglers caught 2 trout each

4 Trout

2 Trout

nothing caught