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Only managed a couple of hours in the early afternoon, hot and sunny with nothing rising in a river that I suspect was a little high. Fished duo with dark olive klink and pheasant tail nymph on point. No luck but an interesting little section worthy of another visit in the evening sometime.

The river is still carrying some colour and I didn't see a rise all day. Found one perfect 6 inch fish in the weir pool. Some tree clearing has been carried out on the lower half of the beat which makes access much easier.

1 Trout

Rematch with my 14 yr old this time the prize for the biggest fish...guess what... He got it again with a lovely brownie of around 12".
River was absolutely teeming with lampreys on the shallows. Literally thousands of them, never seen so many in over 30 yrs of river fishing!

3 Trout, 2 Grayling

1 small trout in the weirpool. River looking better each day but still very cold. No fly life seen yet.

1 Trout

Water still quite high. Caught just one Grayling which must be the smallest Grayling in the country, in fact I think the fly it took was bigger than the fish!
Lovely afternoon to be out though although water was still very cold.

1 Grayling

Only one grayling (7 inches) caught but 2 out of season wbt (biggest 13 inches). Fished a single beaded czech nymph. Lost one other trout. All caught downstream of the weir. A lovely day to be out.

2 Trout, 1 Grayling

No fish but great to be out.

This beat was fished on Saturday 28 September by two members of the Grayling Society on an Area 4 Fishing day.

1 Other

This was my first attempt at wild trout fishing and I enjoyed it very much. The morning was very quiet, no fish were showing so I spent an hour or two fishing with a variety of nymphs without success. The weather was good with sun from about midday so I was hoping for one of those September hatches. However, whilst I spotted some activity, no fish where feeding off the top. I switched to an emerger and began to get some sport with an olive klinkhammer. I missed several takes through lack of practice before my one trout(11inches) was taken. The grayling were great sport and all fish were caught and returned at the wear. Looking forward to trying another beat next season.

1 Trout, 2 Grayling

Five Trout 5-8", one Grayling 9" all in the faster water.
If the masses of parr/fry in the river at the moment survive predation the Arrow will be heaving with fish in a couple of years time.

5 Trout, 1 Grayling