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Superb weather again today , so was a real bit of excited delirium , when I tackled up about elevenish near the yew tree at the Titley beat . Had a wee chat with the nice old dear from Forge Farm cottage , who always answers the door with nothing on her feet , may be the Herefordshire cider doing that !!!!!!!!!Crossed the footbridge , water running at a nice height , and clear as gin , spot on me thought !!!!!!

A few March browns and grannom's already showing , things looked really really good . . . . As I initially fished a couple of small goldbead nymphs , they were working well in the clear water , and as I mooched upstream , it was three hours later that I got my first and only brownie , a fish of about six inches , tail of a deep pool , nowt so much as another touch , which was a shame , and no rises either . . . . . And by oneish there was a good trickle of LDO's and March browns showing , tantalisingly trouty on the water , but they left unscathed . . .

Only a feisty little minnow was the other wee fish too have a bash at the nymph , nice to see something in the Arrow has a bit of spirit !!!, I didn't actually see any trout movement at all even from the heigh banks with Polaroids on , not even one !!!! Still way too early for the main movement of the finny tribe in the Arrow me thinks , and one small fish saved the day . . .

Did see two mink walking back down the fields to my truck , they looked in good shape and really two , is two too many to be honest !!!!! But still good to see , , dippers , kingfishers , butterflies , yes things are rosey in the Arrow valley , shall give this beat threeweeks or so , before another bash , still superb being out in such Spring like weather , spot on !!!!!!!

1 Trout, 1 Other

Well looked the perfect conditions when I set off from the outskirts of Leominster , cool , 13 degrees and a slight breeze , thinking it would be a good day at the Titley beat of the River Arrow . . . .

Arrived at ten tackling up with the usual six foot , two weight , small gold head PTN , and mooched down to the footbridge , strewth the water was low low and clear as gin , although could do with a good flush through to get rid of algae etc etc . ..

Nothing really rising so worked the nymph in likely areas , had a nice little fish in one of the deep holes , about nine inches , lovely Arrow colours as always . . Quickly admired then released . .

Nice riffley stretch ahead so swapped to a parachute Adams , and had one small shot , about five inches in the faster broken water , again gorgeous colours , and released to get bigger !!!!!

Another forty yards or so up , had another small shot , ditto in size , again on the Parachute Adams , really scrappy little fish , and slipped back in . I continued prospecting with the Adams from then on , but no more takers , so had a wee chill out and enjoyed the scenery around here , superb !!!!!

Things seemed to slow down , and it was a while before I had any more takers , a nice fish about ten inches , three quarters of the way up the beat , in a deep pool , on the PTN , fought well above its weight , great stuff !!

Reaching the weir , not much water coming over the top , and I spooked a heron feeding !!! He seemed to have a job to take flight , as the wind had picked up by oneish . . . Was a fun four hours , four little Arrow beauties to the net , will be nice to see some more water to the river though , still that's all to come I guess , had a brief chat with the lady at the cottage where I parked under the yew tree , she assures me she'll give it a good trim , so that parking is made easier . . . .

Shall head too this charming beat next season , clocks ticking !!!!!! Roll on !!!!!!!

4 Trout

5 x trout 8-15 inches, Parachute Adams. A warm but cloudy day, rather humid. No trout showing in the deeper pools, but prospecting the faster runs brought some of the typical and very pretty 10 Arrow fish averaging 10 inches, plus one larger one as a very nice surprise.

5 Trout

A lack of water and extremely bright sun made fishing during the day very difficult, but the evening proved productive with some good rises and nice fish (best 3/4lb) .

3 Trout

Fished from 20.00 to 21.30 with a small dark Sedge pattern on Tenkara rod.
Skating the fly over the faster water brought most of the responses. 5 Trout the biggest around 14 inches.

5 Trout

Very very hot day, fish were very spooky. Brought 3 to hand (9", 7" and 5") and a fair few slipped off, many more missed, including quite a few follows out of riffles, snatched them too early because you could see the trout right from the off. Lots of trout seen holding in the shallow current too, bit of an exercise in sight fishing. Lovely beat, cheers.

3 Trout

Started fishing at 11:00am with a few mayfly on the water. One small trout to a weighted nymph from a deep run. Changed to a spent mayfly and rose several fish only hooking one at 12 inches.

2 Trout

1 Trout

Only one small trout caught.

1 Trout

I knew it was going to be a good afternoon when a health 9" trout sucked in a para Adams floated down into the tunnel from the first cast at the bottom of the beat. Another at 10" on an emerger before the foot bridge. A good scattering of Mayflies but only one sen taken. Also seemed to be some pink/red bodied ones which I don't think I've noticed before.
Missed a few and picked up a couple of further small ones before finding a steadily rising fish in a long pool. This took a grey wulff and after a patient play proved to be 14"! Fished 3pm to 7 and ended with 6.

6 Trout