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Well it wasn't for lack of trying. Gave it a good five hours with weighted pink shrimp, small nymphs, Klink and dink, vladi worm, etc. but to no avail. Hard going at times with lots of scrambling in and out of the river. Also new to this Canadian is fishing to a gallery of curious sheep and suspicious cattle!

River up and coloured, trotting on this stretch today, no grayling but 3 salmon parr, a decent oos wbt and one minnow.

3 Salmon, 1 Trout, 1 Other

Managed a couple of hours fishing over lunchtime.
Bit flooded out after the recent rain i'm afraid, water a little muddy. Quite hard to locate the fish perhaps, or they couldn't see my nymphs so well? Either way nothing doing for my pink shrimp really!

1 Grayling

2 x grayling 6 and 12 inches, 2 x out of season trout 12 and 14 inches, Pink Shrimp and Baetis Duck's Dun. This didn't pan out as hoped exactly - trout still forward on the feeding positions and I think I would have done better to have used dry fly all through. Another warm, windy and rather dark afternoon with rain on the way.

2 Grayling

Well , a cool dank November day when I bowled up at the Court of Noke beat at twelve , and after a long weeks work was ready to chill out , and hopefully locate the grayling . . . .

Started just up from the little style where the river has a bit more character , about three quarters of the way down , and started working up the pools with a single pink hotspot nymph , nothing doing in the first few pools , searching all likely areas . .

I did put on a black klinkhammer prospecting the likely haunts , but today , no takers so back on with the nymph , and about half way up , the one deep pool that bends sharply with a high bank , I did locate some lovely ladies !!!!! In fact three in ten minutes , all on the pink beaded nymph , and deep as well , sizes from ten to twelve inches , superb fun . I did work that pool well and was only the three that played ball , fighting fit , and all released . . . . Spot on !

Some insect life showing about twoish , so did tie on a Parachute Adams prospecting again likely fishy places , again no takers . . .

Near the top , just down from the bridge , a brief sighting of an otter , great to see , but he wasn't hanging around and I think he saw me long before I saw him , wonder how he faired today ???

A fun two and a half hours , nice to be out on one of my regular beats , rivers looking a picture , and a nice flow to it , couple of days off , where to tomorrow , choices choices !!!!!

3 Grayling

3 good grayling + A lot of minnows.

3 Grayling

Well what a day.
The stream is surprisingly difficult to fish with many fallen/overhanging trees preventing good access, so working up the beat will involve a relative amount of scrambling in and out of the water. For this reason PLEASE be careful and don't fish this beat if you are looking for an easy days work.
I fished from around 11am until 4pm, with lunch in-between. During this period I managed to catch 7 grayling in total, 5 of which were over a pound and one that was around the 2lb mark! I couldn't believe what I was seeing considering the size of the stream! The bigger fish were all taken out of the slower, deeper stretches of water in-between some of the quicker runs. I did see a couple of fish rising, but in the end all of mine were caught Czech nymphing, a style I'm finally getting the hang of. My first fish was taken around half way up the beat due to poor access, so don't be afraid to keep moving fairly rapidly from the start of the beat, access does get better further up.

A final note -

1. Be careful of the field just across the stream from where the car is parked (by the bridge), there are cows in there with young ones and they are VERY aggressive.

2. In a lot of places the farmer has put electric fences up to keep the cows in, so again PLEASE be careful of these, especially if you're taking your kids/grandkids along.

3. The stream varies quite widely from very shallow runs to un-wadeable deep pools, so be mindful and pick and choose your opportunities to go in and out of the water, you will not fish 100% of this beat its just not possible.

7 Grayling

River up and a bit coloured from the recent rain. Fished a few hours, 2 grayling one of which was my personal best so delighted.

2 Grayling

Fished from 12:00-2:30pm before the forecast rain arrived. All but one fish caught on the ptn below a bushy klink. Jungle warfare tactics.....the river showing all of its bones and in desperate need of rain.

4 Trout, 3 Grayling

River low and clear. Two WBT on PTN to 8". Fishing disturbed by family party swimming at the weir. Nothing rising and fish very spooky.

2 Trout