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7 fish from 6-12 inches, on tiny black and olive klinkhammers and a size 16 gold head hares ear.

7 Trout

Fished from 12pm - 3:45pm
As others have commented this beat is particularly overgrown but it is the slow-pools with tree cover only a few feet above the water that made it so challenging. Towards the top of the beat it opens out and fishing was easier. Some of the pools were deep enough to reach the top of my chest waders (6ft 1")
The Stream was very clear in contrast to the Wye tribs I have fished over the past couple of days.
This session was really of two halves:
From 12pm to 1:30pm I only saw 3 fish, two of which were no more than 4 inches, the third was skulking in the shadows and far from in feeding mode. My thoughts were that the only time I have seen this before was when someone has fished a stream through just before me!
At about 1:15pm I finally found a group of feeding fish half way up the beat. With good cover from foliage I could sight fish which was nice. The first fish came quickly to a GRHE, a nice grayling of about 11 inches.
As nothing else was doing I thought I'd stay and experiment. 6 flies and three more fish later I moved on. Two trout fell to induced takes and a nice grayling of exactly 12 inches, all to a size 12 barbless PTN.
Second half. Moving up the beat and sure enough I could see signs that someone had fished it through just before I got there, with fresh footprints in the margins and flattened nettles where they had entered the water.
However with time to settle down the river was alive again with fish visibly feeding all over the place.
Takes were now regular although the fish were still obviously a bit edgy and the rest of the session was a real pleasure.
All apart from the first grayling came to the PTN and all were returned. The largest trout was 9 inches. I'm sure there are larger fish there but they seem to take longer to recover after being disturbed.

11 Trout, 5 Grayling

4 of the trout were between 10 & 13 inches. 3 of the grayling were also between this size. I also hooked and lost quite a few more.
River low with slow flow and some almost stagnant pools. All fish came to weighted nymphs in the deep pools that did have good flow.
Very overgrown with fallen trees across river which made for slow and difficult progress upstream.
A healthy looking stream nonetheless with obviously a good head of fish - a very enjoyable afternoon.
Spotted a tawny owl and several kingfishers.

10 Trout, 6 Grayling

Fishing dry fly, the trout, small 6-7inches taken on the top, the grayling 1pound+ taken when fly had sunk, {water logged} bright sunny day little wind. The farmer commented he had not seen any fishermen on the water for a long time. This is my first return, trust the information given is what you require.

1 Trout, 1 Grayling

Excellent evening fishing, walked to the downstream start of the beat, first cast and a beautiful male Grayling. Very overgrown, weather was warm and no wind. Lots of very deep holes and had to climb up the bank to get to the next pool in some places. Will return to fish again now I know what to expect from this excellent beat.

3 Trout, 1 Grayling

Thank you for your help. first time on your waters. Email communication with Dai was really useful prior to departure and booking by telephone was made easy.
Nymph fished, full, coloured stream. Will return to Dulas and Abbey Dore in the future.

2 grayling about 9" on a Sawyer nymph fished deep. Couldn't find a shoal, if there were any. Could not get through some pools even with chest waders - the farmer says his dad remembers the military scooping gravel out of the river many years ago, and the pools have not filled up again. Unusual day, with the historic Abbey on one side of the river and the army blasting away on exercises on the other!

2 Grayling

A couple of hours spent nymphing. Water levels on Dore slightly deeper than hoped. Sadly could only connect with brownies today and failed to locate the Dore grayling. Nice little beat.

3 small trout caught.

3 Trout

Water level very low. Nice stream and accessible. 8 trout caught, from 4" to 13".

8 Trout