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Weather poor with 20mph gusty wind and light rain. Temp 11deg and river .74m and rising with a fair bit of colour. Fished from top of beat to bridge on the woodside spinning. No takes and no Salmon seen.
Reverted to other side at rock and John continued spinning for Salmon whist I fished dry for trout and landed a lovely brown trout of 1.25lb from midstream opposite the Chine, taken on a size 12 dark olive.
John hooked a half pound trout spinning but it came off
Prolific hatch of all types of olive and the occasional mayfly but the brisk wind and low temperature meant no rises after 8pm.

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this was unfishable today and not just because of the rain. on the south bank there are about 3 areas to fish but along the camp site and the other side of the bridge there just isn't anywhere to fish if the river is too high to wade as it was today. beyond the bridge there are no places to access the river as it is too overgrown with even a trapped sheep unable to get back up (we told the farmer). very disappointing stretch which could do with a new description on the website.

Weather great between 5 and 7pm with cold wind and rain after. I landed 4 very good trout on goldhead haresear, to 4.5 lb total, 3 on woodstrem run and one, the largest at 1.75lb at end of chine pool. John had 2 trout on a sunken olive pattern each half pound and lost two others of similar size.
Brilliant evening's fishing

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Fished for an hour in the morning and a similar time in late evening only on the part of the beat adjacent to the caravan park. Did not observe a lot of fish activity although managed to hook and lose 3 smallish trout on small dry. A cold upstream wind was probably not helpful. Nevertheless it is a nice stretch and I look forward to fishing it again.

There was a sporadic hatch of mayfly like flies around 9pm with little response from the trout. The one undersized trout was caught on a Snipe and Purple fished down and across.

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Another lovely day for trout.
Firstly, a correction that a catch return filed for this beat earlier should have been filed for 7th MAY not 7th April 2019.
If anyone reading this can correct the date on the report please do so as I have no idea how to do it, sorry Barry for the error.
Decided to fish morning rise as rain forecast later in day. Fished tail end of the Chine Pool above Wood stream with a gold bead haresear and landed a beauty at 11.30, a 2lb trout in top condition..
Went down Woodstream later and landed a fish of half pound on a mayfly nymph at the groin.
Had a few splashers on dry white wulff at the rock later before the rise subsided.
Lovely day.

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Lovely day Water quite low

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No fish caught. Wading was difficult as the water level was quite high, at least for us.

A lovely afternoon of trout fishing on this beautiful beat. The river quiet in the morning, but a few showing rising from lunchtime, and an intermittent rise of fish to a good hatch of Yellow Mays and Olives during the afternoon. Half a dozen lovely trout called on the dry-fly, including a beautiful fish of c. 18''.

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