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Nil return. Managed to rise five fish but sadly none of them stuck. Fished 3pm - 7pm. A trickle of mayflies coming off all day to add to the prolific fly life on this pretty bit of river. Nice to see the fallen willow at the bottom of the beat has been cleared away. Surprisingly absolutely nothing doing in the weir pool. Highlight of the evening was watching a kingfisher comprehensively out-fishing me.

Cool, cloudy bright, breezy, river in good order. Two superb trout, one of over 1lb, the other a fine Arrow trout of over 2lbs, both on black klinkhammer.

2 Trout

A very cold day with rain, hail, snow, only managed to catch 2 small trout on heavy nymph. This is a very picturesque place to visit & the owner is always willing to converse.There has been a lot of bank clearance all along the beat which will make it easier to cast a dry fly when the weather warms up.

2 Trout

This beat was fished by a member of the Grayling Society on this occasion

This beat was fished by a member of the Grayling Society on this occasion.

Confused & disappointed with this be beat. The map does not show a weir a third of the way up the beat (next to where you park your car). As there appears to be no foot access for this top section & the river is fenced closely on both sides it appears you can only fish the main section of the beat if you are prepared to enter the weir pool. This is about 3 - 4 feet deep before you sink in to the silt. Maybe a 6'6" guy may be happy with this but for me at 5' 5" & the water going over the weir only 10' away this does not seem a very sensible option. The bottom part of the beat is great but would not fish this beat again.
WUF Note: Our apologies that the map did not show the correct location on the weir. We have now updated the details.

5 Trout

Unfortunately no catches today and the fog didn't clear but thickened as the day went on! Water was gin clear but I saw only one grayling at the top of the beat in a couple of hours of fishing. My companion missed one take early in the day on a nymph.

The river was low but with some colour the temperature was about 10 C. with a hazy sky. Fished bottom half of this delightful stretch, osbt taking ginger hackled dry fly willingly, but no sign of grayling

4 Trout

Caught 1 small grayling on klinkhammer. Tried other methods but to no avail. I've found that a furled leader spooks the fish less than than a tapered nylon leader when fishing the top for grayling.

1 Grayling

Great few hours fishing. 3 nice grayling to dry fly.

3 Grayling