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Beautiful spot, not many risers and what did rise did not seem interested in the May fly, hard to tell what they were taking. Down stream of the bridge the bank has collapsed making it impossible to access the river although a local did say it was going to be improved again this year. Despite not catching anything it was a nice day on the river.

Fantastic dry fly fishing in Mayfly season produced fish of 3lb,and 2.5 lb with 4 others over lb just above the bridge. John blanked fishing subsurface nymph through woodstream.
Further visits alone on Sat 28th and Tuesday 31st May late evening produced 2 more fish of 1and3/4 and 1and1/2lb. all fish taken on dry grey wulff 12 fished diagonally upstream..
Brilliant week given the very low water.

6 Trout

Great evenings sport. Landed 1 nice trout of approx 2lbs. Dry fly, winged olive.

1 Trout

Lovely day, fish of 2lb and 1lb caught

2 Trout

Not much activity until later in the day when it warmed up a bit. Lost a couple, landed one taken on klinkhammer, about 2lb. Few mayflies about.

1 Trout

2 fish landed 15 and 13 inches caught on a klnkhammer and a deer hare emerger, lost 2 more and missed other takes. A enjoyable day on a nice beat.

2 Trout

Couple of hours fishing at either side of midday in bright sunshine, a much warmer day after several days of cool winds, at 20 degrees with lighter winds. Fished the upper half of the beat from the bridge starting at the caravan site. A couple of salmon visible sitting at the base of the Rock pool, and a few large trout spotted also. Not a great deal hatching and very little in the way of a rise, except for a couple of trout (always on the wrong side of the river!) feeding at the Rock pool on terrestrials under the trees. A few trout rose around midday opposite the caravan site and we had a handful of takes on the surface to mayfly imitations, but none connected.

A nice place to fish and it would be even better at a time when there are a few consistently rising fish to cast at - one to try another time. Our first time on this beat - many thanks to the riparian owner for his advice.

Once again a blank. Fished about half the length of the beat, upstream from the bridge. Saw a couple of fish rising, but unable to connect, and plenty of life including a kingfisher. Later in the evening plenty of fish rising downstream of the bridge. The landlord of the pub, who has access to that area for himself and guests, says it is usually more productive for trout than upstream.

Went down to the beat with confidence, beginning an evening fish just as the water levels were beginning to drop after the recent rain. May flies were hatching so I matched the colour with a dry yellow evening dun, size 14 and cast about the glides and got lucky. Plucked a nice one pounder out from under a tree and then got into a bigger one a few minutes later. I wasn't quite sure how to play a big river fish, as he was holding his ground and treading water, a rods length away from the net. My inexperience with larger fish shone through as I attempted to land him and he came off. One or two swear words later I recast and caught another (potentially the same) fish and brought him, with caution to my waiting net. He must have been 1.5lb, which for me, is a river record. Went home chuffed. Cracking beat.

2 Trout

Fished for an hour or so at 7.30am without success with nymph patterns. Tried again for a similar period in early afternoon without any offers to nymph or dry fly. The conditions , with a cold upstream wind, made fishing difficult. There was quite a lot of fly life pm but I only saw 1 fish rise and then only the once. Lovely beat but I chose the wrong day.