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Eager to get out so chanced the Pinsley being in better condition than the Arrow. I was partly correct, with water clarity good, but still running a bit high. Enjoyable to wet a line at least, but no fish caught.

Fished two beats of the Pinsley Brook , prospecting nymphs , of various varieties , scoring mainly with the gold head hares ear , and from mainly tales of the pools . Water is still high on the Pinsley and Cheaton Brook , although perhaps another day or two and it would be getting there !!!!
Lots of activity about half two three is , some LDO s on the move , and with the slightly higher temperatures of late , was nice to see bumble bee queens busying on the banks , looking for a likely disused mouse hole or natural hollow to start the colony . . . . .
Feisty little fish today , nothing nudging over eight inches , but with the warmer weather should be some fun sport ahead lots of canopy and casting all other none conventional techniques to work the nymphs in the likely spots . . . . Six in total , in two very tricky beats on the Pinsley and Cheaton , great fun will head down again very soon .
Maybe next week will tackle the Clettwr and have a good workout down in the gorge !!!!!

6 Trout

Did not fish - the beat was too overgrown to allow access.

Water clear, no hatches. Even this early in the season very overgrown. Perhaps there was no winter high-water to clear vegetation and blockages. Stream bed a carpet of caddis in the stony sections. Only a dozen or so places to get a cast in though and a very wader-unfriendly wire fence all along the right bank looking upstream.
Plenty of good fish moving in the downstream half, but none rising to dries. I didn't see any moving in the section above the no-fishing area. No fish caught.

3 trout; two of 8 inches, one of 11. All plump and put up a great fight in the 2 foot wide channel. Dry humpy and small black klinkhammer.

3 Trout

1 x 6 inch fish on size 14 adams. Very hard not to spook the pools infront as not many real shallows/necks to pools and the spooked fish from your pool just spook fish further up the river! Really challenging, will be back.

1 Trout

Access difficult along bottom end, too many debris barriers to negotiate as both banks secured by new stock fences. Top end is too overgrown to fish.

No fish caught but I did see half a dozen fleeing upstream.
Caught plenty of greenery and can see it being very tricky fishing later in the year.

Possibly not the best day to visit this brook for the first time. The wind made life very difficult but I did see three fish rising and crept up on another which ignored my dry offering so I added a nymph and then promptly spooked the fish!

Water cold and the brisk downstream breeze didn't help with rusty casting. A few olives appeared just before lunchtime and a few sedge fluttered about in pockets out of the breeze. Only saw 3 fish rise all day, connected with one briefly on a small klink. Fished a variety of nymphs and dry flies, but no fish caught. Nevertheless, nice to be out on the water again for the 1st time this year. Absolutely masses of caddis on the riverbed, expect there's fun to be had when things warm up.