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A few hours at Noke today, I agree with the previous post, this stretch needs a little less water on it. The water was quite coloured, making wading in the deep pools difficult. I started on dry and was soon rewarded with a beautiful 12 inch fish, sadly that was the only one. I persevered with dry for most of the day, switching to nymph later on. There were sporadic hatches but I didn't see a single fish rise all day.

1 Trout

As the level had dropped slightly and weather glorious (too bright!), took a walk along and managed 1 trout to gold head nymph. Still a tinge of colour and would benefit from a few inches less water. Lovely way to spend a few hrs in the sunshine though.

1 Trout

Still too high and pushing through at a fair pace, but i’m Impatient so tried anyway. One wbt to goldhead.

1 Trout

River level had dropped slightly since I fished the beat 2 weeks ago. Unable to find a shoal of big grayling like last time, with the fish I took spread out along river. Four grayling best 18inches and 1 WBT.

1 Trout, 4 Grayling

Two 10inch Grayling in the morning on bead head flys fished deep. Six Grayling on trotted maggot in the afternoon all from the same deep pool. Two at 18inches, 3 at 17inches and 1 at 12inches. River in good condition.

8 Grayling

River very coloured. Feeder tactics pursuaded a couple of fish.

1 Trout, 1 Grayling

A nice bright frosty morning so had a couple of hours on the Arrow. Slow going until I found a small shoal of Grayling where I caught 5 in quick succession including a nice fish of 16 inches. All the rest 8 to 10 inches and caught on a shrimp pattern.

3 Trout, 6 Grayling

Still a bit early, waiting for the cold to arrive.

Fished from 18:30 to 20:00. No sign of fish for the first hour and 25 minutes then caught 2 nice Trout of 10 and 12 inches in 2 casts in the last run. Fished Duo. 1 Trout to the dry the other on the nymph.

2 Trout

Arrow low but still a bit of flow. Fished pools where faster water was entering. Started at 7.00 and by 8.30 had 6 grayling all around 6-7". All on 18 ptn under a kinkhammer. Nothing after that although missed a few.
With reference to Court of Noke access - stick to the same bank as the car parking. After the first field the field headland along the bank has all been mown. I have hacked half a dozen access points with wading staff - did not take long. If everyone fishing spent a few minutes keeping access points open through the balsam and nettles (not just on this beat) - would be of benefit to all.

6 Grayling