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A few on the dry around 12ish ,but generally hard going,nice to see styles with foam over the barbed wire,To save your waders.
River busy with dogs swimming up nr the road.

9 Trout

Didn’t see a single fish. Nothing. Very disappointing. Was chatting g to farmer who told me there are otters on this stretch of the stream so maybe this has made an impact on the fish. Also lost a lot of flies do to all the over hanging branches. This will only get worse as the leaves grow in though Spring.

10 Trout

A very bright day greeted me at this now truncated beat. I started on the flats upstream nymphing to no avail, closely watched by the sentry of the mill.
The river was quiet until 1 pm when a hatch bought fish to the surface, managed to bag a nice 1.5 lb trout on a dry , much to the joy of the spectator on the aqueduct. The rises soon stopped but I managed 3 more trout on MB spiders. Another typical spring day, was hoping the warmth may bring more sustained hatches and rises, but it wasn't to be.
Still it was a beautiful setting on a fantastic day.
All fish returned.

4 Trout

2 Trout

Spinning - no bites, water still quite high

River at a perfect height and running gin-clear. Bright and sunny (14C) with a cold breeze from the east, which got stronger as the day went on. Teased a couple of small BT from the shallows at the top of the beat on PTN. Around mid-day a sporadic hatch of March Brown began, lasting about half an hour. Took one from the tail of the lower pool on a dry MB and missed three other takes. As the cold wind picked up, the action stopped. Called it a day around 15:00 hrs

3 Trout

I snuck away from work for an hour on the water and arrived at 10am in beautiful sunshine. Imagine my dismay when, after getting my waders on, I realised I'd forgotten my reel...
I didn't have time to go home and come back so improvised by looping a couple of furled leaders together and tying off on the reel seat. It worked, after a fashion, but meant I was fishing with limited range and had to use a heavy nymph to turn the line over. I ran the fly through most of the deeper pools and turned up one lovely trout about 9". A really great way to start the day.
Casting was definitely harder with my unorthodox set up, but some very gentle pruning of the odd overhanging branch would be very useful.

1 Trout

3 Trout

4 Trout