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Great afternoon's fishing with plenty of action. A few olives hatching but no real rises. Most of the fish were caught on small copper coloured tungsten bead nymph.
One point to be aware of is that there is a large tree down, which dams the river, by the second gate from the start of the beat. The only way is to climb over the trunk as there is no way round it.

8 Trout, 1 Grayling

Bright sunshine but a cold wind kept any fly life to a minimum. A few Olives coming off but not enough to interest the fish. Fished a small Tungsten bead nymph with a Spider on a dropper, all but One Trout took the nymph.
The fish not quite in full feeding mode yet with some nice looking runs producing nothing and other pools with the sun warming them containing numerous Trout which would shoot off on approach.

6 Trout, 2 Grayling

A productive two hours fishing which resulted in one very nice wbt. I also had three other takes but failed to catch any of them. There were a few rises seen.

1 Trout

Lovely stream though a bit of an obstacle course to wade up through. Caught and returned two small wild brownies - tough day but thoroughly enjoyable.

2 Trout

First time out this season and thought Chanstone would be a good bet early season. Fished Tenkara with a single Tungsten bead nymph. 3 Grayling caught in the lower half before lunch and 2 Trout caught upstream of the bridge in the afternoon. Saw a couple of Olives in the air around midday but no fish rising.

2 Trout, 3 Grayling

My first time on this beat and considering how bad the weather has been recently I was lucky to get a chance to fish. The river was at about 0.5m on the gauge and unfortunately the water was still coloured. For this reason I only fished a small portion of the upper part of the beat as I was reluctant to wade upstream in coloured water I wasn't familiar with, especially knowing there are deep holes dotted along the beat.
Despite this I managed to find two nice fish of 12-14 inches using a heavy green czech nymph on the point and a red tag nymph on the dropper and lost several more.
All in all a great afternoon on a new beat.

2 Grayling

Tough going. Still the Dore is very low even after the amount of rain over the past week. All the trout took size 20 midge and the grayling heavily weighted nymphs from only the deepest of pools. Two were at 15 inches the other three 6-9 inches. Several herons spotted and two of the grayling had been slashed by them. The grayling never really switched on today.

8 Trout, 5 Grayling

Dore was low and gin clear. With the horrendous overgrowth around the river, the clarity made getting near fish with no cast available difficult. That's why they are called wild streams I guess. Access also tricky - basically waded up from the bottom end of the beat, and there are very few access points on the river before the car parking spot. With an extra 18 inches to two feet of water, it would be unfishable.
That said, for those pools where short casts were available, fish came. Biggest out of season brown was just over a pound, with three smaller fish, but no grayling. Didn't see many fish, and no grayling spotted. All fish came to a small goldhead under an indicator.
Only fished the bottom half of the beat, and walked the top half afterwards. The top half is more open, but fewer pools and generally much shallower. Saw very few fish in the top half.
Overall, a nice stream, but I wouldn't fish outside winter, as Summer vegetation would make it really difficult.

4 Trout

4 x grayling 10-14 inches, 6 x out of season trout 7-11 inches, Gold Bead Hare's Ear nymph. Another challenging day on the Dore, water still very low and clear, carpeted with leaves - weather still warm and windy. Out of season trout rather prominent again, but a remarkable number of grayling, some of them of fair size, were spotted in the pools. As far as I know, the weir at Vowchurch (top of the beat) is as far as the grayling go up the Dore, but there seem to be plenty here. All we want is a few more inches of water and a little colour and this should fish very well.

4 Grayling

No fish today river still very low I only fished for about 2 hours in the afternoon.