Didn't manage to go fishing this season.

Sigh 😞 (last day)

Fished from 15.30 till 17.30, a really lovely afternoon, water still fast but fairly clear. Caught 5 , 3 on caddis duo & 2 on Goddards sedge, a really splendid end to the season for me

Parachute Black Gnat

Water below Little Dart junction quite high, fast and coloured. Fished Larder and Easter Monday. All fish 6-8 ins. A few fish showing.

High Viz Adams Dinkhamer (14). Lively 11" caught just below Oak Tree pool. Water quite high and fast. A bit coloured.

High-viz Parachute Adams (14)

Two fish 11" and 13". Weather good and river fairly high and clear.

Water cold, river still flowing fast and coloured but clearing. No fish showing.

Fished from 15.00 -17.30, river falling but still fast and murky, was surprised to catch all 3 on a caddis duo high viz dry fly, largest just over 12 inches, Hooked but lost a decent sea trout at junction pool, again on a dry!

All caught on F fly lost nice fish at net, on river from 2.30 - 5pm

Water very low and clear, not much showing but managed to winkle out a nice 12 inch plus from Mayfly Pool on a sedgehog, Others were smaller all on Elk Hair Caddis. Fished from 16.30 - 19.30

Small light hackled parachute no 14 took a nice 12” trout at Larder pool Tremayne. Still very little surface activity in the 2 hours I fished 5-7pm. Saw cattle in river near Easter Monday pool
Which is a pain. A nice pool fences down. Gordon

Fished from 2.30 - 5pm nothing showing caught all fish on F-fly

Sedge

Very quiet only the odd fish showing (1530-1830)

1500-1800. Saw no fish rising. All seven caught were small the largest seven inches or so. Five were on an F-fly and two on a sedge.

Fished from 16.30 - 20.00 slow fishing none rising and little interest in my flys but had an entertaining display by 2 beaver kits just above mill pool.

Very quiet indeed. Only saw one or two occasional rises after rain.

River quite high and running fast. Only a couple of fish showed in the 5 ‘o’ clock pool. I lost a nice fish and something sizeable leapt high out of the water just upstream of the entanglement of trees. No idea species just a huge splash

Just the odd fish rising but difficult to tempt

Fished from 2.30 till 5.30 pm, hard work all fish on different flys, none showing and to add insult the cattle crossed the river at 3.30 turning the water very muddy. Still at least it’s dry!,!

Fished from 1.30 till 3pm very little surface activity, caught on F fly and Adams

Fished 3-5pm. Very tricky fishing, not many rising. 1 fish of about 8" on an F fly

No fish showing and water very peaty. Fished 15.00. - 1800 all fish on sedge, saw an Otter just below Coldridge Bridge

Sting wind blowing down the river but managed to find some respite above Mill pool. Nothing rising ((1500-1830)

Fisted 1430-1730 and spent the first hour on the slow straights above Rashleigh Weir. Had one small fish but nothing showing at all. Then walked down and fished Small Box, Rocks and the weir. Only saw one fish rise.

Upright Olive Dun. TBH there was very little fly life or fish showing and I had exhausted the usual staple patterns so was clutching at straws. Missed another couple of bites on the Olive.

Fished from 3pm to 6pm, fish just starting to rise as I left, last fish from Mill Pool @ 16 inches, looked to have been in a few battles.

Hardly any fish showing.

Three caught on a black Klinkhammer

Fished 3.30 -6.00. River still a bit higher, quite coloured and flowing fast from 5 ‘o’clock to the start of the club stretch towards Bridge Reeve. Very few fish rising and despite the humidity not much fly life.

River at perfect level and strong tea colour. Some fish rising, all 6 caught on Klinkhammer.
Tree down by Franks pool.

Fished from 11am for a couple of hours, water very peaty still and no fish rising.
All caught on Adams

Water colour of strong builders tea, so surprised to see fish rising. Put on a Parachute Adam’s and got a 10incher first cast. Alternated between Adam’s and Klinkhammer with best fish a plump 14 inches. Fish continued rising until around 5.30pm .

Fished from 1 - 3.30pm in steady rain no fish rising all fish caught on F fly

A good 2 hrs early evening fishing. Water high and a bit coloured. Saw a mink at the river crossing and cattle in the river near Easter Monday pool. Little white klinkhammer size 14 seemed attractive e.

Water still carrying colour, few fish rising but not taking

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One 9" brownie took my medicine fly while sea trouting at dusk. An otter came into the pool at 11.30pm so I packed up.

Fished from 7.30pm - 9pm while waiting for it to get dark before having a go for sea trout. Caught 2 at 9" and 1 at 12". Lost another and missed a few too. One 9" was caught while swinging an Alexandra while fixing my cast length for the sea trout.

Fished 7-8’30pm. Hardly any trisomy and it was quite cold.

Hmmmm. Everything looked great albeit few fish rising. Tim caught six on same beat just before me.

Water back down to low level and colour of strong tea, quite a few fish rising and fair amount of fly life. Fair few trees down after first bend above Coldridge Bridge.

Fished 3.30 - 6. River still showing some colour. Not many rises. All five were small with nothing over 7 inches.

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Fished from 2 - 5pm water showing very peaty colour but fish rising, all caught on Adams.

Water up about a foot but chocolate brown in colour, no fish rising but plenty of flies about. Fished from 15.30 - 18.00. Found evidence of potential beaver dam on Little Dart

First outing this year!!!
River rather dirty, Evidence that lots of cattle are accessing the bank and crossing river.

Not many rising, one fish around 13" fished from 2 -4pm

Quite a few rising fish and a good hatch, water back down to pre rain levels, but running clear

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A nice 12" fish and an 8" fish between 7.30pm and 9.30pm. Not many rising and a strong cold wind.

Water still coloured but down after the rain. Fished from15.00 till 1800 6 fish 4 different flys, plenty of hatch and fair amount of fish rising but only nudging flys. Had good 12 inch + on first cast and last cast.

River still rising and running with quite a bit of colour, very few fish showing.

Black gnat (12). Water 15C and slightly silty from recent rain. River higher. Large fish on first cast shook the hook as did three others on diff flies. Caught 12” trout some 20m above first pool upstream of Park Mill.

Black gnat (14) and bushy mayfly equivalent (12)

Nice fish of 12" above Coldridge Bridge at Oak Tree pool. Water higher than I expected and today's rain will further improve things. Still relatively few fish appearing to rise to flies.

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Fished from 2.30 for a couple of hours, not much rising missed a few as well.

2 on caddis and a nice 14 inch on a grey wulff, very little in the way of rises, fished from 12.00 - 16.00. Hosted Angling Trust Auction winner Neil Collins who had a good day but no fish

Fished from 19.30. - 21.30 both fish caught on grey drake. Lots of rises tonight but fish being very hesitant with takes, lost several good fish. More signs of the beaver with lots of chewed debris in the water.

Fished from 2.30 - 5pm some fish rising but proving quite difficult to tempt.

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Test entry

Wry quiet and negligible takes. Mud coming into the river after storm from bottom of mill pool.

Fished for 1 hour in the pouring rain from 19.00 - 20.00, all caught on grey drake.

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No fish rising, all 4 on caddis duo, no hatch whilst I was there from 1.45pm till 4pm

Fished from 8-9.30pm. Had one decent fish of 12" and one smaller one of about 9". Lost a few more too. CDC mayfly pattern in olive. Copied from Davie McPhail.

Fished 7pm to 8..15pm. Abundance of fly life on the river including some hatching mayflies. Very little rising. Maybe too warm?

Fished from 16.00 to 18.00 4 fish all on sedges, not much surface activity, started to rain as leaving, hopefully we get a good drop soon

Irish mayfly and sherry spinner caught my toddlers. Lost a couple, including a good fish who broke me off. Saw a salmon or sea trout in junction pool and a beaver between pools 10 and 12. Got a video of the beaver.

Plenty of fish rising but being very fussy on takes, 4 on grey drake 2 on Grey Wulff. Plenty of algae on the rocks, looks like we could do with a fresh.

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Fished from 19.00 to 21.30 major hatch around 19.45. Majority caught on grey drake with a few on winged olive. Lots of fish rising and saw the beaver just as I was leaving the pool just above the Little Dart junction.

Fished between 2.30 - 5pm, some Mayfly still hatching.

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Fished 4 -7, sa few mayflies later on. Had a nice 10 in’s fish from the far bank at 5 ‘o’ clock. Not much rising.

Fished 15.00 -18.30 some rise, some hatch, fish rather fussy, lots of surface nudging going on strong smell of disinfectant below Park Mill Bridge but water clearish

Fished for couple of hours andstarted to see major mayfly hatch around 19.30hrs. Caught one 10” fish.

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Occasional Mayfly hatching, all fish caught were rising.

Good hatch this afternoon fished from 15.00-18.00 plenty of fish rising all caught on either caddis or grey drake, lost a few as well( as Gordon says the disadvantage of barbless hooks)

Fished mayfly equivalent. Several mayflies hatching. Caught two nice fish each about 12” and missed two or three more.

Fished from 15.30- 18.00 big hatch around 16.30. All caught casting to rising fish, all on caddis duo largest close to 12 inches

First fish from Tremayne for me, some hatch and couple of rises, nearly trod on a 4lb+ sea trout at junction of little dart, good to know they are about

Plenty of fly life on a warm afternoon. A few mayflies. Buy very little rising and no interest in my bushy grey wulf dry fly.

Green Drake mayfly pattern. 1 fish of 7". Very little activity considering the fly life. Fished 3pm til 6pm

Water quite coloured, fished from 9 - 11am nothing rising so used gold head nymph.

Fished from 16.00 to 18.00 lots of fly hatch but no rises, all fish taken on elk hair caddis duo (pink top) Water still coloured

Fished from 2.30 - 4.30pm all on dry F/Fly

Fished from 16.30-18.00 5 fish , 3 nice ones all on elk hair caddis, river going down but still carrying colour

Mayfly imitator and grey wulf. River still high and fish only just starting to rise to flies.

Fished for few hours from 10am no fish rising so put on godhead nymph which worked well. River still showing a little colour.

Saw my first mayfly so put on a brown drake, 2 fish in 10 mins, one over 12 inches. 3 Rd fish on pheasant tail nymph. A very pleasant 3 hours

Home made job for Salmon/Sea trout not fishing for trout
so may not count.( Small black and white collie dog type fly.) Have fished these pools when the water was high in a hope of a Salmon. Due to a wet March they have been seen up on the Mole.

Pearly butt emerger. Caught the only fish (about 7 inches) I saw rise for the 2 hours I was there, despite a few Grannom and Olives being about.

Fished dry fly only.

Went for a couple of hours in the evening from about 5pm. Zero action, too early in the year really.

Water still high, coloured and cold! No hatch, no fish

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Lots of water in the river but nice and clear. I fished a single nymph with a fluff indicator, I fished for 3 hours and caught 4 trout on a stinky nymph.

River high, fast and dirty,

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All on Gold Head Hares Ear, water clear and rising