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Lovely bit of river with fish caught all along and some surprisingly big trout for the size of river.

8 Trout

A few rises but difficult fishing. Extremely large bull in the field opposite the weir, which led us to make it way down through the river to the railway. Beware!

Still quite a lot of water, with a a bit of colour, so despite reasonable hatches, including the odd Mayfly, only saw 2 rises. All fish caught on nymphs and several hooked and lost ( unfortunately including some good ones!).

5 Trout

Good water level and lightly coloured. My first time here, Nice beat even if the cows are very friendly. There was a bull in the field where I passed the trout farm but he stayed well away while I put best foot forward. Three or four bites in about 6 hours. Lots of flies coming off but generally no sign of fish. Tried lots of things to get some action but no luck.

An absolutely stunning day - river looked in prime condition dropping back down, plenty clear, hatches galore, dappled shade to aim at, bushes giving my fly back unscathed... but no sign of any fish whatsoever!!

Didn’t see a single rise from 10am-1pm when I bumped into a terribly helpful and insightful fellow angler, who assured me the river is in fact teeming with fish ???????????? (he’ll probably post a Cath report of 23 fish despite fishing behind me!)

New to the wild streams, I absorbed as many tips as I could: 12ft leader, 3lb max tippet, degreased, look for flatter water etc etc. Carried on my way thinking he must have been pulling my leg about the number of fish, before seeing a rise almost immediately! Unfortunately even the new rig didn’t work and saw no more fish. Could be the fact I was wearing a blue shirt

Nonetheless a wonderful day ????

3 Trout

River carrying a fair amount of colour but fishing well. Best an absolutely super fish... Can't have been far short of 2lb and gave me serious run around on a 7'6 3#.

5 Trout

Another bright cold day.
Decent hatch of various upwings early afternoon but very few fish moving.
Water level low,clear and very cold.
Rose a trout to a DHE but missed it and that was the highlight of the day.

Lovely overgrown wild beat with plenty of small trout around, some of which were rising to very small mayfly duns. It was an ambitious place to try to teach a 9 year old to fly fish but still made for a great adventure. Only a handful of the pools in the middle of the beat are deep enough to hold larger fish and accessible enough to easily fish without spooking the fish, especially as the water was so low.

Sunny bright day, river running well but very clear. Did not see any rises so persevered with nymphs. Landed 3 good trout at about 12” each, all on gold bead hare ear and from the faster water at the head of deeper pools. Mid afternoon everything stopped, did not stay till late evening to see if a rise started. Interesting I saw no parr or smaller trout, though the ones I landed were in excellent condition.

3 Trout