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Today the fishing was much more encouraging with quite a few rising fish especially above Loud’s Mill and up to Lubeck Way. There were Grannom on the water and a prolific hatch of a black fly which had the swallows swooping to the river surface to pick them off. The fly hatch was at its …

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Well done Jim.. Nice to know there are still some Dry fly men in the club who are prepared to wait for a fish. Just such a fish took my DRY Grannom last Friday from a small sidestream without having to resort to a Gold headed lure! Whoever saw a natural nymph with a gold ball stuck …

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Today I fished with my good friend Glyn, it was his annual trip down to fish during the grannom season. We started on the River Piddle and the cold wind kept the fish down, but a well placed elk hair caddis brought up a few fish, Glyn managed to winkle a good 14″ fish from …

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I had my third outing yesterday. On my first two visits I saw no rising fish but I did catch a reasonable trout on the Piddle using the fly of last resort; the pheasant tail gold head nymph. Yesterday was better. The weather conditions were ideal and a few grannom were about. If the fish …

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After the Riverfly meeting at the Dorset Wildlife Trust HQ on Sunday, I decided to have my first outing on the Frome this season. I arrived at Gascoyne Bridge just after noon and there was a large hatch of grannom in progress and even a number of rising fish. I managed to land a few …

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It looks like spring,  but the cold wind makes it feel more like winter. Fished the main river today, which is running clear and in a few well sheltered spots spring was trying to emerge along with a few hatching grannom, but the trout didn’t have chance to rise to them because they were quickly …

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John I had my first outing on the river today. I started under Poundbury at 11.00. There were quite a few Grannom around and if you looked at the river for long enough the odd trout was rising. Before lunch I netted 5, mostly around 8 to 10 inches long but one fish was a …

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