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A pretty piece of water and although conditions weren't ideal a pleasant day. Having said that the continuous barbed wire fences all along both banks of the beat made access extremely difficult, the occasional stiles helped but a large amount of the beat remained unfishable due to lack of access. At times I even had to resort to crawling under the barbed wire in order to access a potential piece of water.

2 Trout

Water level allowed us to wade long stretches of the Beat. Very few rising fish through the day, so nothing was taken on dries. All fish secured using nymphs and spider patterns fished up and downstream, and all safely returned. A good day out !

10 Trout, 2 Grayling

First time back here for a while, its still lovely. Escorted in down the lane by two fawns who for the life of them couldn't work out where to cross the hedge. Not much doing in the lower section at all really (apart from one escape artist which jumped into a tree and transferred my hook to a branch, incidentally followed on later by being transferred to some roots by another near the cottage). Improved closer to the midway point with a few hard hits on a dry sedge. Fished duo thereafter upstream with takes on both flies. One lump on a klinkhamer also. 7 to net some 5 more shook the hook plus similar missed takes. Absolutely no sign of any oos grayling, very surprising given past experience here.

Lots and lots of crayfish husks. Also saw a pesky mink right at the top of the beat which left rather leisurely as I arrived. I did land two of my fish from the pool that it had been fishing though so maybe I should be grateful. Thanks WUF.

7 Trout

3 Grayling

5 Trout, 2 Grayling

Small trout caught on dryfly. Fishing quite slow with very few rising fish. Weather was changeable with a cold wind and showers in the afternoon. River had a slight opaque colouration and the flylife was sparse. All the fields had been cut for sileage recently and there may have been some run off the previous night although not being local I don't know what the weather was like. There were quite a few dead signal crayfish on the bed of the river in the lower sections of the beat. I don't think they were discarded moulted exoskeletons but didn't see any signs of otter predation....

This was our first time on the beat and we thoroughly enjoyed it. What agreat spot.

1 Trout

Really enjoy fishing on the Lyepole, one of my favourite beats. Water levels low with the weather. Nice steady amount of fish throughout the day caught on beaded nymphs using a mixture of klink and dink and french nymphing. Around 4:00 a small mayfly hatch started to occur. Fish didn't really switch on but bought two up the the dry fly but didn't manage to put them in the net. A good day, most fish on the small side on this trip.

7 Trout, 4 Grayling

River quite low, hot day full sun , a few Mayfly on the water . No fish rising but tempted 4 small trout between 8 & 10 inches to a Mayfly . Fished for 3 hours

4 Trout

Very hot day. Also many people were bathing in some of the pools. Nothing rising and nothing caught.
Many native crayfish evident.

After a break of 2 years due to building my house and illness, it was nice to get back on the river. Rewarded with rising 3 fish in the first 4 casts but not connecting, a bit rusty I think. Soon got into the swing of things though and finished up with 4 trout to a grey duster so pleased with my first few hours after a long break

4 Trout