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Well , smashed the mowing at silly o’clock, as there was no dew down , then went for a good burn on my mountain bike , and to top of this lovely weekend , thought it rude not to give another of the Edw beats a bash , looked at the website , Hergest was free , so onward to the Edw , again , just to complete the Edw extravaganza !!!!

Got there at midday , and tackled up my usual six foot , two weight , except I fined down the tippet even more , and furled leader on also , just for added turnover , and delicacy , which is what you needed here , as boy was it tricky , but fun at the same time …. Water temperature sitting at 13 degrees , and a lot isn’t workable , even with dry fly , but also a lot is , so it’s swings and roundabouts here at the mo ….
Some folks would look at it at the mo, and say , that’s not fishable at all ,….. but alas it is !!!!

In fact some risers were tricky to say the least , but caught them to a splashy rise to my Parachute Greenwells in the end … managed five feisty brownies between six and ten inches maybe …
Just fished up to the weir , and got out I think just before three …. Cows in the field with young calves , so carried my impromptu mark one nine foot stick , just in case things went Pete Tong !!!! Thankfully they were very sedate this time …. Didn’t even move …. Pheeeeeeeew !

A fun three hours here , had a chat with the farmer on his quad taking sheep down the road …. Lowest he has seen it in years , as he explained it does hold its water very very well , due to its catchment area … a knowledgable chappy and most interested in the fishing too , which is always nice …. A fun few hours here , and three great sessions on three days on one of my favourite small streams , can’t be bad , back to The Ponferosa , and a well earned pint of cider me thinks , sorted !!!!!

5 Trout

Around 13 small (0.5lb) wild carp, 1 minnow.

14 Other

16lb salmon

1 Salmon

2 Trout

Euro nymphed and a brief period fishing down and across with North country spiders. Hard fishing. Not much rising. Also one minnow.

1 Trout, 5 Grayling, 1 Other

River on its bones making fish location easier. A bit of streamer weed which was nice. Love this short boundary with accessible swims though rope still useful if you are on your own. Basically wading and waggler using hemp/corn for the chub and had 1 barbel on it- 2' deep! Spotted some barbel in a slightly deeper gully with faster water and had another 3 beautifully conditioned barbel to about 7lb on meat in fairly short succession. Canoes about -lots grounding but fish don't seem to mind them as good dace rising all day - surprised only had 2 on corn on a 14. Saw some lovely dace plus chublets and fish i could not identify upstream from the bridge on the upstream side - could they be shad? The dace were flashing all the time as was a shoal of small barbel on the downstream side - beautiful to see. Lots of wildlife - about 20 kites in a group in the morning and egrets/herons walking the far bank shallows.
Beautiful day - pleasure to be there.

4 Barbel, 14 Chub, 2 Other

Fished just for the evening in the same swim as on Friday and had the same result. The fish were around the same size as well although the second barbel was a bit smaller at around 4lb.

2 Barbel, 1 Chub

2 Chub

2 Trout

5 Grayling