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River running low and clear, but suited me for my first look at this beat. Started at the bottom, and caught my best grayling (15") within the first 30mins (losing two of similar size). Worked my way up, switching from tight-line nymphing in the ripples to klink-n-dink on the flats. Majority of grayling around 10", four of them barely 6". Lovely, leaping OOS brownie, and a couple of fit 10oz chub, all made for an active few hours. Quite a few yappy dogs being walked on the footpath on the opposite bank was the days only disappointment.

1 Trout, 12 Grayling, 2 Chub

River falling slowly with little colour. Weather mild and cloudy. I hoped I might pick up a barbel or two but it was not to be and I had to be content with a couple of evening chub up to about 3lbs (and a bigger one lost in the bankside vegetation). Just the same a very pleasant mid-November session.

2 Chub

6 Grayling

2 salmon parr.

2 Other

The river was coloured with 1'6" visibility when I arrived, but cleared steadily and had dropped by around 4" by the end of the afternoon. One feisty 14" brown trout along with 13 grayling to 15" all carefully returned. Fun to float fish maggots for grayling with a centrepin reel for the first time. There are not so many places suited to trotting on this beat, but it is a lovely section of the Lugg and I will return to it during permitted fly fishing times.

1 Trout, 13 Grayling

hard days fishing with only four Grayling caught. Saw a number of Salmon.

4 Grayling

Fished 11 - 2.30. Dry fly (coachman) with Goldhead nymph under. No fish seen nor hooked. Lovely stretch of river though and will try again next year.

3 Barbel

3 x grayling, 17, 17 and 18 inches, 3 x out of season trout 12-16 inches, trotting. First time on this new beat in a sort of continual mountain mist/drizzle, and I can see it will take some learning. I spent a lot of time working out the access via the little fields at the bottom end - there are no styles and lots of fences so best to zig-zag your way up the river. Steep gradient with lots of fast running shallows, gravel flats and slate ridges and very open - a little like the upper Ithon. Where are the grayling shotts though? I had the impression of not a big head of fish altogether, but a few big ones if you can bump into them.

3 Grayling

1 Barbel, 8 Chub