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Upstream nymphing. Light wt tackle. Stream v overgrown, challenging casting, in fact casting impossible. Access to stream also challenging as bank fenced off with barbed wire and no formal access points that I could find. A rather frustrating day.

River was up a little and coloured caught on pellet feeder and meat on a sunny day

4 Barbel, 4 Chub

Fished Mill Pool and the Rectory. Fly only now so fished it through once or twice, with nothing seen or caught, surprised really as it looked great maybe a bit high ?

This was my second visit to the beat. Wonderful, again. All fish caught on a self tied (barbless) tenkara style/spider emerger pattern fished both upstream and cast across and downstream. It was cloudy and cold. While there was a fair amount of fly life there was very little surface activity. 1 very large trout hooked but lost just before the net!

3 Trout, 3 Grayling

Last fished the beat back in June when the river was low. River seemed in good condition clear with a nice flow and weather was perfect. Unfortunately nobody told the fish. Initially fished a pheasant tail nymph on the point with a hares ear and plover above. Saw a fish rise on the edge of a fast run and covered it. Changed to a para Adams dry fly and immediately rose hooked and lost the fish. Still a nice few hours out.

A very pleasing start to September on a lovely day with thin cloud, no wind, water 11 degrees and some fly to get fish rising: some sedges in the afternoon and pale wateries from 11 a.m., though no rising fish until 1 p.m. From then on, fish rose here and there until almost 5 .p.m. Bugged during the morning and last thing, and had fish on a few tunghead jigs: a Duracell variant, olive quill and flashback PTN. Most fish in the afternoon came to Goran’s Sedge or to a small PW Duck’s Dun, with one or two on a grizzle EH caddis. Trout from 9-15 inches and grayling from 10-15 inches as well. Biggest trout and grayling,1.5lb. No more rain for a while please!

14 Trout, 10 Grayling

Enjoyable hour or so at the upper end of the beat. Limited accessibility meant we stayed within about 300 yds of the Ford. Good conditions but no luck!

River was still quite high and banks slippery. Fished a morning and a late afternoon session in two different swims. They were probably the only two swims that I could safely fish from and it was a good job I had a 3m landing net pole otherwise I would have struggled to land anything safely. Enjoyed the fishing finding the fish came in bursts. Good Size Chub and Barbel
in the 2 to 6lb category. Take care on the banks on this stretch, particularly when the level is dropping.

4 Barbel, 7 Chub

Lovely looking beat

Fished a duo between 10am and 3pm, but to no avail save for 1 small 5” salmon parr on the black magic nymph

Saw only a couple of small fish rising despite a hatch of blue winged olives between 12 and 3pm

1 Other

A disappointing and slow day. River dropping quickly. Most fish caught on meat.

4 Barbel, 5 Chub