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Was cool when i bowled up at about ten , decided that Czech nymphing tactics may be a good move , water was slightly murky but looking good , and as I walked down , a heron took off surprising me and him !!!!

Was nice using the ten foot three weight , although must admit still favour my old six foot two weight to be honest . . . . . . It's a wicked tool for slipping small nymphs and dries under the alders in these small streams in summer .

Anyway , the Fishing , two grayling were about ten inches , great scrappy fish in one of the deep pools , and I then had a lovely fish where the river bends sharply to the left as your wading upstream , it's a very very deep pool here , and had a very gentle take on the hotspot nymph but boy did he have some poke !!!! Gently brought him in on the three pound Tippett , superb fish maybe seventeen inches and possibly two pounds at a push !!

A lovely three hours sport , fairly quick mooch upstream , as bad weather was promised later on . Did only have a few spots of drizzle , looking forward to here in a couple of months , it's one of my favourite beats on the Arrow . . . . Time for home and a dash of Drambuie in a large coffee me thinks !!!!!!! Back soon , fun mornings sport .

3 Grayling

Today was my first attempt at small river fishing. I arrived at the beat at around 9:30am. It was quite breezy and cloudy. I started fishing at the pool near the bridge at the top with an orange pearl tungsten nymph. Slowly made my way down the beat. I had one good take just below the riffles by the bridge, I'm not sure what species it was as it got off the hook as I was about to land it. A bit disappointing as this was the only take I had in this session. I tried a few other Czech nymphs further down the beat to no avail, the weather got progressively worse as the say progressed, and so I decided to head home around 1pm. Today was a real learning curve for me. I will be back here in the near future.

Lovely river conditions, this beat is so rewarding when you learn your spots. Fished a french leader style for the first time for about an hour and caught one small grayling, before switching to Czech style where I landed two more decent fish. One had a split fin, whilst the other had a healed gash in the body (they must have started rutting for the females, or an otter swung by and they narrowly escaped I guess). Fished for about 4 hours in total, and during the winter months you can't beat a pink wool tup bug on this beat. Hopefully will come back soon!

3 Grayling

Cold day, river clear with a good flow so trotted maggot. 2 good grayling best 14inches and 4 trout. Several good fish hooked and lost.

4 Trout, 2 Grayling

River very high and the colour of chocolate. Unsurprisingly, only catch of the day was a floating log of around 3 pounds. : )
Right hand bank has very difficult access due to electric fencing running the length of the beat as well as very healthy set of brambles. Left hand bank much clearer and with lower water level imagine fishing the beat from in the river and this bank would be good.

River high and wild, spent a couple of hours trotting, retrieving leaves and debris every cast. Beautiful sunny day, but no fish

Well my last free day of the week well spent. Again it was freezing cold which certainly doesn’t help with your technique when you can’t feel your fingers haha! Even still it has seemed harder to locate the grayling Czech style the last few days, maybe a french style would suit better with the clear/shallow water.
Caught a beautiful fish on a hand tied disco shrimp though which was more than enough for me.

1 Grayling

Arrived at 09:30 just as the sun was breaking through following a cold start. Disaster struck as I broke the tip of my new 10ft float rod I had bought specially for this beat while tackling up, fortunately had my 12ft rod with me. Trotted maggot taking 5 good grayling between 10 and 14 inches. Fish appeared to be spread out and not shoaled up. As I contemplated packing up at 16:00 a barn owl fly directly over head.

5 Grayling

Very cold and rainy with the river low and crystal clear. Managed to take a beautiful grayling on the pink shrimp, but my technique was pretty poor all day to be honest. Better anglers than me would have had a cracking day I think, fish shoaled up and more difficult to find, perhaps spooky with the clear water too.

1 Grayling

5 grayling, 5 salmon parr, a few minnows.

5 Salmon, 5 Grayling, 3 Other