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Weather warmer and plenty of fly life. Apart from 3 rises to my klinkhammer which I missed, nothing else seen. A beautiful beat and fortunately for me there's more to fishing than catching fish.

Arrived to find the river (brook?) very low with bright sunshine and a freezing cold northerly wind, walked/waded the entire beat but failed to see a trout and there was no hatch or insect life to tempt them out of their bolt holes either.
A wonderful, gin clear little river which is probably great on the right day, but today wasn't the right day.

One 9" and one 10"wbt on gold head grhe. Stunning beat on a beautiful Autumn day.

2 Trout

Almost gave up at start realising I hadn't brought my 7', so went on with 8'6". Doh! Water crystal and cold but could have been a bit higher. Didn't spot or spook any fish.
Plenty of fly life. Would like to try again next year, lovely stretch.

Had a quick morning session on what is a new beat to me. There are some lovely pools halfway up the beat. I only caught one 10" trout on a Elk hair caddis but will give it another try when it has a bit more water in it.

1 Trout

Haven't been here for a little while so thought it about high time and glad I did as the water was bouncing through very nicely indeed, crystal clear and cool! The river bed was in great shape and littered with bugs of all sorts , absolutely loads of micro caddis cases glued to the rocks and some of the biggest stoneflies nymphs I have seen. Slim pickings starting from the bridge, it is quite skinny water here though so never linger and then started to get some interest to the fly as you get to where the big farm house is up on the right side of the hill and then you start to get in to more lovely runs and pots all the way up to the top boundary .
Fished a clown shoe caddis as is a good and very durable fly, just the job for these rough streams and all the fish where in super shape and hard as nails when hooked punching well above their weight , as always, love them.
Biggest maybe would have gone 11" and quite a chubby chap too. Didn't make it all the way up today, two days on the trot on these hill streams meant the old knees where groaning a tad.
I didnt get troubled by any salmon parr, or trout parr too which I thought unusual? Had the good fortune to chat to a WUF electro fish team doing the rounds and doing great work. Spooked a large salmon in one of the pool tails

5 Trout

Great fun today - glorious weather but plenty of shade in the river which was crystal clear but not too low. Found the smaller trout in nearly every fast run and glide willing to come up to a small black or dark gray Klink, ended up catching 15 at 6" to 9" and missing many more. Also a few parr, plenty of fish in this stream! The bigger brethren were keeping their heads down, but what an enjoyable day nevertheless.

15 Trout

River at a good height and clear. Rain not too bad under the canopy. One of the trout was actually a little Parr.

2 Trout

Fabulous stream. Weather hot and oppressive. Wading was slippy even with felts and studs - more to do with the shape of the boulders - I found it ok but difficult to be really stealthy. Scared a few wbt but didn't manage to catch one. The beat is wonderful though and I will return.

1 Trout