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The day started clear and sunny, about 7C when I started fishing at 1030. Breeze picked up from 11 and the best is quite exposed so I felt the cold, especially when it clouded over at noon. Water is a brisk 4C and I forgot my thermals so was chilled to the bone and finished at 3 as a few spots of rain started.

No hatch or other fly life seen and no fish made themselves obvious. I tried heavy bugs in the deep channels, nymphs drifted under dries and spiders fished down and across - nothing doing today.

Good access to the beat which feels nice and secluded. I imagine it will be lovely when a tad warmer!

38 Chub

8 Chub

4 Chub

Nymphs

6 Trout, 6 Grayling

Water conditions good. Lovely warm day with olives and the occasional March brown but nothing rising to the hatches. 1 hard fighting but skinny 15” trout on a nymph

1 Trout

My first chub was just shy of 5lbs so that was a great start. But I struggled after that until the late afternoon when the chub seemed to switch on again. No barbel - I think the water was still too cold after so many nights of frost. Very easy fishing here with lots of accessible swims and few steep banks.

4 Chub

Fished for 3-4hrs - lovely aft / eve - 4 chub - all decent sized fish

4 Chub

Quite a long and varied beat, very rocky in places. Little signs of life, perhaps a bit early. A nice walk/wade though.

Spent a few hours from mid morning to mid afternoon hoping for a small hatch of some kind but nothing. I tried wets, dry dropper and still nothing. River was a tad high and the sun was very bright. All in all my hopes for an early season fish were shot.

Some nice pools and the section below the bridge looks like a good spot when the fish want to play. Lots of the lower beat had poor access to the water.