Fished river 4 beat 5 this morning with Charlie and the first pool which normally sees around 10 hookups only gave us one. The next two lies produced a few hookups and then the big pool above produced several for Charlie at the top - though only one legal one, and several for myself fishing the middle and back part of the pool which I don’t normally do.

After lunch which fished back down river on beat 4 and hooked around 10 browns in the 3 to 4 and a half pound range out of the first small pool. We followed up 2 pools down with three nice similar sized rainbows, and then ended with one more each out of the big corner pool and a couple of pools above. There were a few fish rishing late this afternoon and evening. In all we probably hooked around 25 trout for the day which was OK but not exceptional fishing. Surprisingly the first pool in the morning returned little whereas a week ago it was fantastic. Either the fish have moved on or they were in a different area due to the higher than normal flow and dirtyish colour - though still reasonably clear. The best fly of the day was 14BSPT followed by 10H&C