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My first time fishing this beat after thinking about it many times and I enjoyed every minute of it. A beautiful bit of river, I managed to land 4 grayling, 2 tiddlers and 2 decent, weighing over a pound. Also 5 OOS brownies all around 8 ounces. All fish caught Czech nymphing and all on the jig fly. The conditions were perfect, slight tinge to the water with a blustery wind and spitting rain all day. I look forward to returning to this beat and fishing the last 200 yards which I had to bypass due to failing light.

5 Trout, 4 Grayling

Fished noon to mid afternoon. river running clear. Saw only one rise, and saw only one fish (the fingerling that was caught on a size 18 goldhead nymph). Military jets buzzing around (don't they make a racket!!) which may have put fish off (any excuse.....!). Still an enjoyable afternoon discovering another new beat - only joined the wild stream passport this year.

1 Trout

1 Grayling

Arrived at 7am to find a herd of bulls in the first field that you cross, so proceeded with caution around them and hopped over the electric fence. Started at the bottom end and bumped into a nice trout on a olive coloured nymph followed by 2 small grayling in the same pool. I then proceeded to fish like plonker and just couldn't get into a good rhythm for the rest of the beat. Manage one more small trout and a small grayling.
A new large fallen tree about 70m below the bridge is blocking the whole river. Also still 6-7 other large fallen trees along the beat that haven't been cleared.
Finished at noon and gave myself a good talking to haha ????

2 Trout, 3 Grayling

Took the opportunity between showers, hoping the recent wash through after heavy rain had freshened things. Unfortunately, the river had returned to showing its bones. Bumped three in very skinny water and managed to keep one in in the final pool below the bridge. To be honest, there are now so many trees down that it’s spoiling what was a great beat. I was looking forward to the lovely run a hundred yards or do below the bridge, usually guaranteed to hold a few fish. Unfortunately there is another huge ash tree fallen across the river. Exactly across the run. Ho hum.

1 Trout

Nice morning on the Arrow. Nothing rising, but caught two trout on a nymph.

2 Trout

Very low, almost not moving in the deeper sections.
Seem to have a knack of picking very bright hot days and seeing almost no rises and catching nothing. I did have a knock on a GRHE on the final lift before recast but that was it. Lovely day though.
I have to agree with some previous reports regarding clearing some of the trees. It makes fishing some areas impossible.
Also after the first field the left bank walking downstream needs clearing. It will be impassible soon.

River at 0.285 on the Eardisland gauge. Weather bright and sunny.
First time on this beat. Parked up in the super parking spot at 0700, tackled up and proceeded to follow the instructions to get to bottom of beat, about 150yrds down the right bank was confronted by an electric fence keeping a herd of cattle in place. On seeing me, every one of them lined up at the fence "daring" me to enter their area. This fence seems to be all over the top of the beat on both banks. Turned around and made my way down the left bank. Not the easiest path, 2nd field is chest high thistles and nettles.
The third field is easy going, with a nice border separating crop from river. Nice one from the landowner. Didnt go to the weir at bottom of beat and dropped in after about 1/2 mile.
From there it all went downhill. Opted for the duo. Did not see any fish rising, indeed only fish I saw were small grayling flashing at the nymph.
Didnt have a touch untl I got back to the two runs immediately below the bridge, when I hooked and lost 2 trout.
Overall an interesting few hours on a new beat. Access could be easier, had to jump in and out a few times, and bash a bit of balsam, but it is a wild stream, and thats just my old bones complaining.
Next time.

9 Brownies to hand on Nymphs. Hard fishing though today, windy but bright. River low and clear.

9 Trout

Turned up at The Court of Noke beat just before six ,day seemed like September, dull overcast and really blustery later on !!!! Balsam has grown ballistic here and lots of trees down, actually really messy compared to what this lovely beat used to be like three or four years ago !!!! Lots of work to be done here to get it back to scratch!!!!

Onto the fishing , not a lot of surface activity ,but has some great fun with a caddis pattern and aqua baetis nymph , good confident pulls on them., and some lunkers too the net this morning , nothing really small, five of the fish between ten and thirteen inches , really fat strong fish too !!!!

My last one , its lie I shall keep a mystery ,had me a real run around in the deep deep water ,I thought I was into a chubb ,only to reveal itself to be a gorgeous brownie, must have pushed two and a half pounds , an absolute lump, and I'm guessing twenty , perhaps twenty two inches ,a beaut !!! My best wild streams brownie for a while!!! Rested him for a minute in the net , then off he went , and if I still smoked , that would gave been the time to spark up a tab , with a shaking hand lol !!!!!

A fun few hours , with six Noke beauties to the net , got out by the bridge in somewhat disbelief, superb to net such a leviathan!!! Oh on a bit of a sour note did spook two comorants on the way down, would have made a perfect double for the Beretta !!! A great morning ,back here soon . . . . .

6 Trout