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Dropped in after a poor day at Mortimers Cross.
3 small grayling between us but enjoyable never the less.

3 Grayling

River low, all caught in fast runs on weighted nymphs. No joy or interest on the dry. All fish 5-12 inch. Pleasant days fishing.

5 Trout, 8 Grayling

Fished this beat for the first time today using my Wild Stream Annual permit. Interesting morning with a woefully low river! I had 3 Grayling and my 13 yr old lad had his first double hookup with 2 x 10" fish on at once, his face was a picture. Also caught some monster minnows! Home in time for dinner and afternoon snooze! Lol (must be getting old).

5 Grayling

A quiet calm day. Tried weighted nymphs but only had one take. All three grayling took dry flies and we're around 6 inches. All were returned safely. A lovely beat that needed a bit more water.

3 Grayling

8 x grayling 10-16 inches, 2 x trout 9-10 inches, on two heavy nymphs fished with an 8 foot rod. A grey, close morning, very warm and without a breath of wind. My general experience with these North Herefordshire streams is that, once the may fly is over and done with, I do better with the nymph rather than the dry fly. Nothing much was rising this morning, so that is what I tried. Very low water and my time was limited, so I'm afraid I cherry-picked the beat, just plumbing the deep holes where there was enough flow to move the flies. One good grayling, a decent number in the 10-12 inch range and saw lots of grayling parr, which is always encouraging.

2 Trout, 8 Grayling

River clear. Grayling of 10"(3), 9"(4) & 8"(1) caught on goldhead hare's ear (4), goldhead red tag(2), goldhead white nymph(2). Enjoyable day.

8 Grayling

All looking pretty quiet when I arrived with no sign of rising fish as I walked to the bottom of the beat. Very difficult access on the way up: July is probably not the best month to fish this beat. When I finally found a rising fish to cast to I was immediately joined by a gang of young bulls who waded straight into the water and scattered the fish. I know gang is not the correct collective noun, but I use the word advisedly. And no, they were not bullocks - they had the anatomy to prove it. So after one tiny trout and one diminutive grayling, I decided to cut my losses and head for the main river Wye. As things turned out, it was a very good move!

1 Trout, 1 Grayling

Fished from 4.30pm. All quiet so started with small PTN on long leader and 2nd cast produced a 14" OOS Grayling! Soon after 6pm some sporadic rises so changed to dry and during the evening success with 3 trout (10-13") and 2 further small grayling. All taken on a sedge pattern though the visible fly life was mainly black gnats, medium olives and mayflies. Larger fish taken 1lb 4oz. Home contented in the dark.

3 Trout, 3 Grayling

Fished for a few hours in the early afternoon. Sunny and warm with lots of Olives and Mayflies about. No sign of fish apart from one solitary rise and lots of fry in the margins.

Fished 3-7 in afternoon (obviously just after another fisherman). Fish rising sporadically throughout beat, taking emerging mayflies with gusto, 2 fish x 8 inches, 1 14 inches and 1 belter of 16. Others lost and pricked. All on soggy French partridge and half drowned Dogsbody.

4 Trout