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2 caught in upper section of beat on dry fly. March Brown. 1/4 pound and 1.5 pound fish.

2 Trout

This is one of the passport beats closest to my family cottage in the area so particularly convenient for an evening session.
Parking is in the village, adjacent to the excellent village shop.
Easy access via riverside path and in general easy wading but be careful if river is high.
The top section of the beat beyond the salmon pool is worth the effort but does involve more intrepid yomp through riverside undergrowth and boulders - note area to avoid marked red on the map.
We fished the evening session from 1730 onwards, river was relatively high so started with wets and streamers but to no success, later moved downstream and had a magical hour on the last section casting to rising fish just off the opposite bank - this took some wading to mid river (waist high so wading stick useful) and not for faint hearted if water high but usually quite do-able. My fishing companion took a beautiful 2lb WBT on a parachute Adams which he was very pleased with and was a pleasure to witness. I missed two other takes in the same place on the flats in the lower section of the beat.

1 Trout

2 Trout

Really difficult day -drew a blank?

A great day on this lovely beat. I missed as many as I caught. Pleasing to catch a couple on duo and the rest on dries.

9 Trout

Two brown trout, returned. March Brown

2 Trout

Persisted with dry fly …all great fish 2 on/ around pound mark best 11/2lb (connected briefly with bigger fish is fast water ) -really great day

3 Trout

Good hatches all day but not much visible fish activity. Fish came to both dries and nymphs. A beautiful beat with a great variety of water to suit all methods. Studs essential for wading the middle section!

4 Trout

Fantastic day on this stretch again, plenty of rising fish, all fish a decent size and put up a great fight in the rapids. Only managed to fish half the beat, will return.

14 Trout

A short but enjoyable session on Sunday morning for around 2 hours. One lovely brown trout caught and released on a PTN to make up for an earlier miss.

1 Trout