Last week of March

Well the good weather has continued,we still have blue skies and light winds,unusual for Scotland at this time of the year (any time of the year up here) I am making the best of it while it lasts.
However, the river levels are getting a bit low so some rain is needed to give it a good flush out.
So for the final week of March I ventured out twice and had mixed fortunes. The first day I failed to catch--well I did hook two good fish,one was a grayling  and the other a trout,but they slipped the hook before I could bring them to hand ( catch and release at a distance,they call it)
Both were in shallow fast water,a place that I wouldn't normally cast a line, but thinking about it now the reason why they were there could have been because there is more oxygen in the faster water--
I was saying that the river was running low.
I then missed a day and went out again, this time with better results.
I thought that I would do an afternoon session so arrived at the river about 3pm thinking that there may be some fly life on the water with rising trout here and there, but no-not a thing-the river looked a bit  dead.
Walked up and downstream but couldn't see any rises to cast my dry fly to so opted to fish nymphs again.
Tried the fast water bit again and soon hooked a nice brown trout of about 11", a couple more jabs but nothing else.
After an hour or so I could see the odd fish rising so I quickly changed to the dry and had a take first cast,but no hook up resulted.
Tried chucking the dry fly at other rising fish but that was it,no more offers.
Back on the nymphs and soon had a very nice trout of about 1lb and a bit.
It gave me a good fight for its size-I don't think the photo does it justice-it was far chubbier and more beautifully coloured, not really shown on the picture below.

  The end of an enjoyable afternoon at Wolfclyde Bridge on the last week of March
  2 nice brown trout--I am happy with that.