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2 x trout. Gold head GRHE. Hot,bright sunny day.
A dead hen salmon lay on her side on the bottom of the river about 15m inside the first field below the footpath.
Below the rapids. There was no obvious damage/disease and her tail fin was in good condition. There was no bloating or predation so it seemed a recent death. No other signs of fish distress or death.

Two rods fished all day in hot sunshine for a total catch of one 7 inch trout. A beautiful beat but fish were simply not responding in the hot weather.

4x rainbow trout caught on worm and taken also 6 perch caught on worm and returned. Fishing slow and taking off the bottom. Great service from the foundation, will use every time to purchase permits.

5 x trout 8-12 inches. I arrived late afternoon, but still very hot with bright, blazing sun, and nothing happened till after 8 in the evening. A few taken - and quite a few more missed - on a Little Dark Watchet spider fished through the runs.

Water still .55m and clear. Fished for trout throughout beat. John had 4 on the spiders but none for me until late on when there was a large mayfly hatch and landed 2 at 1lb 9oz and another at 1lb 4 oz. The latter was kept as gills damaged.
John landed 7 on the spiders from 6oz to 1lb 4 oz. All returned
Silly season has just started!!

A beautiful day on a beautiful river – challenging fishing though and only managed one wbt and one grayling of any size all day. Both on goldhead PTN.

One of those days when it is good just to be alive. The sun shone all day but a breeze kept us comfortable. We fished all day long for very little reward - I think I took 3, my companion 0. There was very little rising inspite of the huge mayfly hatch and was 8ish by the time we'd walked back along the road to the car. I had a last peek over the bridge and noticed a couple of rises. "Couple more casts won 'urt" I thought..From 8.30 until dusk we filled our boots!

River very clear with lots of fly life including Mayflies but mostly ignored by fish. Very sunny and hot. Caught 6 trout up to 12in on dry fly.

Low water and bright sun, 5 shad caught in the top pools on Czech nymph . A good fight on light trout fly rod! All returned carefully.

2 rods 8'#4 and a 8'6"#4. a lot(9) of small fish(trout) all under 6" were taken. My wife caught 4 of them. Near the railway bridge on the lower beat I caught a nice grayling about 16" on a Phaesant Tail Nymph. Most of the fish we caught were taken on GRHE, I even caught a chub 8" on a Hare's ear spider.