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Beautiful beat in wonderfully peacful valley, not too marred by the lack of water. Heavy showers dampened what looked like a great afternoon at the outset. Temperatures dipped with the rain and the fish went quiet, but water temperature warm to the touch and as soon as the rain stopped they were back. Three WBT and Eight Grayling to about 15", all on dry fly with a crazy half hour's evening rise when the rain finally stopped.

Lost my favorite pair of Oakleys, so if anyone finds them will happily oblige with a bottle of their choosing!

River very low and exceptionally clear. Cloudy, warm with upstream breeeze. Fished 2pm until 7pm and caught 9 grayling and 7 WBT to various small dry flies/CDC's. Targeting fish more successful than fishing 'blind'. Some fly in evidence and odd sipping fish.
Lovely day and a pleasure to fish this most attractive beat

Clear and very low water with not much fly activity. Managed only 4 WBT around 10” mark, 5 small grayling and a couple of salmon parr. All came to dry Sedge #18. Poor catch comparing to my previous visits. Cock salmon spotted by the Stone which is always a bonus.

Low, clear and sunny until late afternoon. Very little fly and very few rising fish until late afternoon and evening. The evening rise was still going at 8.45 p.m. The fishing was really hard until mid-afternoon with just three grayling and three trout to show for my endeavours: had fish on olive and HE emergers and two on a PTN fished Kiwi style. Nothing on upstream nymphs. The rest of the day was altogether more fruitful and I finished with 24 grayling and seven trout - some rising fish and many risen and all on various HE emergers. Trout to 12" but most smaller, and some really nice grayling - I had five 14-15" fish, several of 11-13" and the others 8-10". All fish returned. A lovely day on a lovely bit of water.

3 wbt - 6-8". Fished variety of wet and klinkhammer with nymph under. Lots of small fish takes mainly on edge of fast water. Saw evidence of two larger fish but very quiet all day. Watched an otter for some time working over the pool at the top of the beat.

Fished early morning until lunchtime. Hooked and lost 2 salmon, second one mid teens in weight. All very frustrating - still waiting for my first Wye salmon.
Other salmon showing and it would appear there are plenty of fish in the beat today. Water visibility no more than a couple of feet so if it clears a bit more tomorrow could be very good indeed.

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8 Brown Trout 1 Grayling - 8". Largest BT was a good 9" rest 7" and under. Good day even leaky with leaky wellie.

Well I thought conditions should have been perfect - shows what I know. Fished early and late but only two trout and two shad caught. Of Salmon - no sign at all.

A short visit due to copious amount of rainfall. Managed to catch and return 2 trout about 10" and a small grayling on a wet(!)Partridge & Orange.