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Up stream nymph, bead head pheasant tail,X1 WBT 3lbs,X2 WBT to 1Lb

3 Trout

Excellent place to fish,caught 4 fish using spinner/worm

4 Trout

River high. Weather damp and cold. No fly to speak of. Fished mainly nymphs - 1 fish 3/4lb returned.

1 Trout

Very cold - nothing was moving.

Cold grey and dark day, more typical of early March than mid April. Sparse hatch of LDOs from 1300 to 1500. Five trout all on dries: 16”, 16”, 14”, 12” and 11”. All returned.

5 Trout

Fished from 8.30am-3pm. Had a few early on on upstream tungsten-beaded nymphs. Flush hatch of LDO's at 1pm saw the fishery come alive. The majority of the fish caught came to a CDC dun imitation. A great day's sport.

15 Trout

We popped up for 4 hours, no march browns but good olive hatch. One nice trout ,all taken on drys. Dull day, fish rising all up the river.

4 Trout, 2 Grayling

After all the rain I wasn't too hopeful but came out anyway for my first visit to this beat. The water was quite clear and flowing strongly with plenty of cover on both banks which kept to cool breeze away (although there is scope to remove some of the lower branches that reach down almost to the water and impede casting). There is a great variety of water here, mostly knee-depth with thigh-to-waist-deep runs and the odd deeper pool. I fished dries and then switched to nymphs trying to get down to the steam bed but no luck. Nothing was rising, despite a small hatch of March Brown's in the early afternoon, and I didn't spot anything fleeing from my clumsy approach to the various pools. I suspect it's still a little cold at the moment (water was 9C) and any fish that were present would have been hiding deep down.
I look forward to returning when it's warmer.

Worth noting on access that the farmer is happy for anglers to walk across the fields to get to the start of the beat but at the last field you have to cross a barbed wire fence. There is a section that has been pushed down by a fallen branch which is easily negotiable for taller people, but if the fence is repaired then it would really benefit from a stile.

2 Trout