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Weather was very hot & clear skies. Fished from 14.30 until 17.30, but without any success. Never actually saw any fish either.
However very nice beat, will try again when weather is more conducive. A pleasant afternoon.

Fished with passport on Abbey Dore till early afternoon and tried a few hours later on Dulas.
In morning lovely clear water but very few hatching flies apart from midges. Only a few small fish occasionally rising and rose a couple of those - otherwise no response to dries or nymphs. Waited and watched and crept around waiting for things to improve. Moved to Dulas and situation unchanged - only a few olives and very small fish rising. Both beautiful fishy beats.

Water very clear. Saw 4 Browns over fishing the beat X 2. Very nervy and difficult to get close without spooking them into disappearing into the un-accessible stretches. Very overgrown.

Dore was really low and gin clear. Walked the beat and didn't spot any fish. Fished some of the deeper pools but nothing doing. Note that this beat is really overgrown, and casting is near impossible, even roll casts difficult in most places. A French leader could do the trick, but I wouldn't go anywhere near this beat between April - October, and it is likely to be even more overgrown.

Trout of 8 inches. Grayling from 6-12. All on size 16/14 tungsten GRHH. One rise to parachute olive but failed to attach.

2 Trout, 4 Grayling

Just a few hours for me on this short beat. Fished from 9am to 12.30. Whole beat was covered twice. Very slow to start, just 1 grayling lost. Stream is very cold and shaded so not great for an early start! 2nd run through managed 2 graying both around 9 inch, 1 trout 12 inch, 1 minnow, mouth hooked! Fished with an Air-lok indicator from Fishtec & 2 x flies. Point being a heavy jig nymph. All fish took size 14 copper john on dropper. Missed and pricked a few. Hard going, as was casting even without leaves to contend with! Beat is particularly narrow and over grown, frustrating at times. No sign of the large grayling shoals I spotted in summer - they seem to have vanished. This was my reason for revisiting the beat.

1 Trout, 2 Grayling, 1 Other

Arrived at Abbey Dore to weak sunshine with the river surprisingly clear despite overnight rain. Starting at the bottom of the beat I was encouraged to see a couple of rises and hooked a reasonable one to a dry Grayling Fiddler, only to lose it. The river was starting to cloud with field wash and I saw no more rises. There were no takers to a goldhead nymph or the dry, and I was rained off after an hour and a quarter, by which time the river was quite coloured. Not an easy beat to fish, with care needed in wading, and a rod over 7 ft. would be a nuisance, but a nice little bit of water that merits a second visit.

An attractive stretch of fishing but bank access very difficult in high summer because of dense growth. Fish free rising but missed several before a 3/4 lb fish hung on to the pheasant tail a little too long.

1 Trout

Just a couple of hours after barbel fishing on the Wye earlier that day. This beat does what it says on the tin - great for a short session. I fished it all and then a few of the lower pools again in 2.5 hours. Not an ideal afternoon it was 23 degrees and bright. Water almost stagnant in most of the pools, fish very nervy. Landed 5 small trout 6 - 10 inches all on the klink and dink duo. Lost a few, and spooked numerous grayling in the deeper pools, some in 15/16 inch size class. Despite dropping nymphs on their noses they simply were not feeding... will be back in the autumn to have another go!

5 Trout

Turned up late morning and the beat had just been fished, but as I hadn't seen it before decided to at least have a walk down. Only fished a couple of the pools, didn't see any fish rising/moving, but did manage a cracking Grayling of about 16" on a czech nymph from under an overhanging tree at the neck of a deep pool. Left after that but will be back.

1 Grayling