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Beautiful secluded fishing. Spent an hour or so and had 2 trout to 10inches on a size 20 klinkhammer. Access and casting are both very difficult but well worth the effort required.

2 Trout

Dozen plus on a warm and sticky day. All taken on un-weighted nymph and olive emerger. Lost several also. Beat is almost un-fishable from lower bridge to hundred yards below weir. I don't mind tight fishing but the amount of trees over this small stream is unbelievable. With good access could of been many more to hand.

12 Trout

3 x trout 6-9 inches. It's still all about right place and right time, isn't it? A midday stroll up the Cannop Brook on a hot, sticky afternoon carrying a rod, resulted in no rising fish being seen at all. Then near the top end, while I was waist deep in a pool, the heavens opened and rain came down like stair rods for 10 minutes. I cowered under a branch and the hood of my rain jacket. Then first one may fly was up, then a second, then a third. I put a Monnow Gosling on, although I dare say any largish fly would have done, and caught three little trout without moving from the spot. 10 minutes after that, all the muddy water from side ditches came pouring into the stream and the fun was over.

3 Trout

Fished beadhead through the entire beat as fish were very reluctant to rise all fish were taken in heads of pools and faster glides. Due to water levels being so low those fish in more open areas were spooked at the slightest movement. All fish were between 6-9 inches . There was a decent shoal of dace and I took one of those and also saw several perch. Not sure if Cannop ponds hold these fish but pretty sure that's where they are from.

10 Trout, 1 Other

Lovely day water not too cold walking to bottom of beat had a treat watching a kingfisher then came across a small deer. Started fishing with no sign of a hatch but took one 7"brownie in the second pool with a grhe nothong else,to report except a lot of trees fallen into brook making a cast impossible in some likely spots.

1 Trout

After a lengthy chat with D.P. of Rugby on the bankside, having noted a few rises, I decided to have a few casts as the rain set in. Nothing rose to dry LDO patterns, so I opted for a single Beadhead PTN (my red holographic ribbed version) and achieved success within a few casts, with the first of 4 wild browns at approx 10" (I thought was a very good fish for this small brook). The others taken ranged from 4~6".....perfect little specimens. A very pleasing hour and a half's fishing, and my first trout of the season. :-)

4 Trout

I got Skunked.

Nil caught.

Nothing caught.

Well what a difference a week makes. Lovely and warm on the Cannop Brook. There wasn't a single rise all day so decided from the off to fish single bead head nymph. Was slow up until about twelve only taking 4 trout. It slightly picked up for an hour or so and took another 8. Lost maybe 5 also. Plenty of Olives about by 2pm but still nothing rising to them. Little tanago rod very useful on this small brook.

12 Trout