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2 Trout

Against Nathan's sensible advice, we tried fishing but the river was very coloured so visibility about 18 inches even though the water level had dropped to 1.18m at Redbrook so some marginal wading was just possible on a couple of pools.

Lovely beat. Easy access, parking and directions. Lots of leaves made fishing static baits tricky at times. Cattle present but well behaved.

1 Barbel, 5 Chub

1 Grayling

In the end I could only stay a couple of hours. Lovely stretch of river, no fish seen

Lyepole seldom fails to deliver. The river was up a couple of inches, with a good flow, and still carrying a bit of colour from last weeks' rain; but was probably the better for it. Steady progress, none of the flurries of fish I normally associate with Lyepole at this time of year, but a dozen plus from upstream before lunch. All on a tungsten nymph. Were it not for the otter and the cormorant that I was sharing the beat with, I might have had a few more; the cormorant was particularly troublesome, surfacing right along side me on one occasion, and giving me the evil eye, before flapping off to spoil the next pool. Downstream after lunch. Odd fish on a nymph before a switch to a klinkhammer, after seeing a fish rise, brought another half dozen plus in rapid order from the same run

20 Grayling

5 Trout

2 Trout

As others have said it's pretty overgrown but it's an interesting beat. There are a few access points marked on the beat map but some of them have fallen trees blocking access to the water. Looking at the pictures from previous anglers the water was a little bit couloured on my visit. Trotting maggots resulted in some small chublets and an out of season brown trout. I tried dropping luncheon meat in likely looking spots in the hope of picking up some better chub but didn't get a sniff. Look forward to returning ahd having a go in some of the other swims.

1 Trout, 3 Chub

River was up and coloured, so we concentrated on fishing along the inside line. After a slow start, the fish started feeding through the afternoon and evening. We used meat and pellets as bait.

4 Barbel, 12 Chub