Fished the Lower Chew. After a slowish start with brisk wind making casting difficult things began to improve. To start plenty of Maylfly coming off but not a huge amount of fish rising. I tempted an out of season Grayling on the nymph and few small Brownies mainly to a Paradun but some on the nymph. However a switch turned at about seven and the river just came alive - Mayfly everywhere and fish rising all over the place. I began targeting bigger fish and fished exclusively on the dry for the last few hours and caught in excess of 20 Brownies to about 12" and one Dace.
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At times the fish would ignore the fly on the dead drift but attack with vigour as I retrieved. Many of the fish that I caught had distended belly's from gorging on the Mayfly feast! Met Nick early in the session who had taken a few fish on the dry. Had a close encounter with a Badger that trotted past on the bank literally feet from me before dusk had even fallen.
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