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I was down there for a couple of hours this afternoon. The weather didn’t look that promising, cold breeze and dampish, but I was in for a pleasant surprise. Hatching in just ones and twos but enough to have the fish on to them. I caught a good number of fish. Pics attached of one …

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19TH MAYI thought it was time to show Steve, a friend and member of our Wylye fishery how good the Mayfly fishing can be ‘over the border’. Fair weather and good water conditions greeted us and amazingly profuse early weed growth. We slipped quietly into the water at Poundbury and rod shared through the pockets …

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What perfect mayfly weather today, I sat all day itching to go fishing and I had to wait until 17:30 before I was tackling up and ready to go..! Mayfly were coming off steadily, with lots of empty shucks drifting down stream. The rain also started to fall, which to me is the best time …

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This is an SOS – I’ve lost my priest, and it’s my favourite, I’ve had it 25 years. It’s a staghorn priest, quite slender, with a bit of string tied through the hole in the end – if only I had tied it to me! I lost it on the upper water at the Poundbury …

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I visited the middle stretch above Grey’s Bridge. I was on the water at 14.15 to find one or two Mayfly about and the occasional trout rising. At first sight the river appeared rather quite but the trout were very willing to take a Grey Wulff Mayfly so all in all it was an enjoyable …

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I could not resist the temptation to fish the Treasurer’s favorite pool. I walked down from Gascoyne Bridge and started fishing at 12.00. One or two Mayfly were on the water but only the odd fish was moving. In the hour before lunch I had two or three splashy takes but none of the trout …

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Today I fished under Poundbury. Conditions were absolutely ideal with a light east wind, an overcast sky and plenty of water in the river after the recent rain. Yesterday I saw no Mayflies down at Bockhampton. Today, on my first sight of the river at the bottom of Poundbury, I saw a large Mayfly emerge …

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