I’ve had a mate up from down south this week.
The river has been very tricky but we have had some good fishing.
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We covered several beats until we found some pods of fish.
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Fly soup for most days, with LDO’s and OU’s hatching in reasonable amounts for most of the days in the early part of the week
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Wednesday saw the start of grannoms appearing but every fish seemed to be after something different so lots of changing flies
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The rest of the week was more of the same, every time the sun came out the grannoms would hatch and the fish were hitting the pupa and occasional fly
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So on top of the LDOs and OUs, we also had Large Brook duns , grannom, hawthorn and some other small sedges. Lots of spinners too. I caught a pair of Brook Spinners at it in the grass
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So conditions are good, but be prepared to chop and change and cover a fish multiple times before they decide they want your fly. The Smolt hatch isn’t helping, they seem to be putting the trout off their game as usual
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So we had a few good fish for the week but we had to work for them, which makes it all the more interesting
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Hopefully the rain freshens things up a little next week and helps the smolts off to sea leaving the big browns to go back to eating flies
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