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Weather was not great with thunderstorm and constant rain throughout 5 hours with few dry spells and just my luck of the day. The stream was very over grown and few fallen trees. As I am new to the sport I found it very difficult casting in such over growth but never the less it was a great day and enjoyed it.
2 fish around 5 inches returned on Adams parachute. I may return one day with more experience behind me. I am interested in reading other comments from the experienced anglers on this same beat but very pleased with how I tackled this.

2 Trout

A great days fishing, fish on all day. Ten or so chub caught on float rod with trotting bread flake. The rest cought on ledger with luncheon meat and pellet.

1 Barbel, 20 Chub

Fished the full day, with fish coming fairly regularly. 6 barbel in the morning with a few chub, then a switch to meat brough a chub a cast and I lost count of the number. The afternoon was slow, but from around 6pm things picked up and particularly the last couple of hours of the day when the barbel realy appeared to move in.

15 Barbel, 25 Chub

Tough going during the day fish only starting feeding around 7pm. Timebomb method with a variety of hookbaits.

5 Barbel, 3 Chub

Having fished this beat 2 years ago we were looking forward to our first session from late afternoon having driven up from London earlier. We were disappointed to find two anglers set up with their platforms stationed in mid river, fishing the deep water close in to our bank in the swims we had planned to fish. They left after a few of hours so my fishing partner was able to fish one of the swims and landed 3 immaculate Barbel to 7lbs 3 Chub and an eel. I stayed in the first swim by the line of trees and caught a nice Barbel around 4lbs later on. We were booked in the next day for a full session on the beat.

4 Barbel, 3 Chub, 1 Other

Hard to fish, very rocky, croys poor condition. Lucky stone swim had two barbel anglers on the far side so a long walk for nothing. Tried fly and spinner nothing.

Hard to fish - very rocky, croys poor condition. Lucky stone swim had two barbel anglers on the far side so a long walk for nothing. Tried fly and spinner nothing.

7 chub in swim next to hut. Long walk to lucky stone swim was a waste of time as people fishing on the far side.

7 Chub

Fished this as part of LAFA's Tenkara day on 5th July. There were four of us on this beat and I saw the other chaps heading upstream from the parking point as I approached so I opted to walk down the forestry track to the bottom of the beat.
Saw a rising fish in the first pool and he grabbed my black Klinkhamer but didn't stay on. That was the only riser I saw. It's a pretty beat with easy wading as it is shallow. There was a deeper section just downstream from the holiday cottage but a squall blew up and it started raining. I hadn't brought a wading jacket so sacked it and walked back to the car.

I was in the area so tried the Honddu for the first time.
After sheltering under a tree during a thunderstorm for the first half an hour I started around 1pm.
The river was running very low and under a dense tree canopy I found it quite dark and difficult to read the water. Managed 3 trout between 6 and 10 inches from the faster runs on small weighted nymphs.

3 Trout