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This beat should come with a warning for salmon fly fishing. It is almost wholly inaccessible for fly fishing with very steep banks and it is heavily wooded. I took a friend to practice his spey casting ahead of a trip to Scotland. I thought we were on a perfect beat with advertised 2.5 miles of double bank fishing. There was literally nowhere on the left bank that you could fish and only a tiny bit on the right bank. This should not be marketed as fly water. Also the directions provided were out of date and confusing. Not up to the usual passport standard.

WUF Note: the top mile of the beat is a sequence of excellent fly water, but you need to cross the river and fish the majority of the pools from the right bank. The run of pools; Slaughter crib, Slaughter pool, Botchers rock, Upper and lower Camp, Oak crib and the Biblings swing a fly almost the whole way, but are fished from the right bank wading down beyond the bankside willows. From the left bank, it would have been limited at these low flows. the fly pools of Cobbs cross, Cement rock and Salmon rock would have benefitted from a few inches more water, but would have been fishable with a worked fly. The middle of the beat is deep and slow, but below Martins pools, there are 2 nice runs either side of the lsland and a productive cast just below the Island.

We have checked the directions with the owner. They are fully up to date and accurate.

Much needed torrential rain in the morning followed by strong wind in the afternoon made for a tough and fruitless day. Beautiful beat though, plenty of variety and easy access. Will try again in better conditions.

Went down late afternoon after the rain stopped. Water was coloured - not quite a wash off though. Good to see the river level had come up. The fish were celebrating elsewhere..

Very strong winds. Impossible to fish left bank- I tried!
When sun came out the fish seemed interested. Largest fish
12 Oz .

26 Trout

Well .... a different day today totally!!!breezy overcast and what turned out to be a tricky three hours this morning !! Ppfffttttt hark at me !! Anyone would think I'd made a bad batch of scones for a W.I meeting !!!!! It's always lovely being on the water ....

My usual beat ... local to me and so handy ..as is Kington too .. annoying downstream breeze ..strong too but persisted with tiny dries .. top of the first glide I just couldn't make out what they were rising too !!! I like a challenge but strewth they had me this morning ... First took a twenty black f fly ! I think just to cheer me up maybe !!! Possibly iron blues I couldn't see in fairness .....

Anyway small fellows this morning had another two on the f fly and another one on an eighteen black klinkhammer ....always good fun but no tubby hooligans were being fooled this morning! Crop looking as it could do with a two day session of rain and soil is starting to crack open like it does in August ..... sign of things to come maybe !

Still a fun but hard session and managed four on the dries ... hard earned brownies thus morning .... May give the Hindwell a bash one evening end of the week .....

4 Trout

0 fish caught . Used worm today and power bait on Saturday but still didn’t catch

Recent reports were right about this amazingly beautiful location - very low levels and no fish, although there were signs of insect life. Fished various wets and nymphs for a few hours over the middle of the day..

Early morning start before the canoes resulted in sightings of at least 3 fish in the Vanstone pool. After that river very quiet in regards to fish. Weed catching the fly became an issue almost every cast, single hooks and long-leaders helped but I am looking forward to the next rise of water and push of fish.

Fished for an hour or so at 7.30am without success with nymph patterns. Tried again for a similar period in early afternoon without any offers to nymph or dry fly. The conditions , with a cold upstream wind, made fishing difficult. There was quite a lot of fly life pm but I only saw 1 fish rise and then only the once. Lovely beat but I chose the wrong day.