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Well, what a beaster, like the Lympstone assault course, except worse !!! A real Borneo jungle down there guys .....shame really back in the day was a pretty good wild beat ..... its kind of heading in the Pinsley Brook direction now I feel !!! Bankside stock fencing everywhere ..... jeeeeeeeez some landowners must dream about barbed wire !!!! Lol !!
Fished between four and half seven .... tough going but putting it in perspective I was pleased with five .... very hard earned trout !!! Sizes between seven and nine inches I guess ..... all took my dry Mohican May .....
Must admit, I was a shade late for the main party, but still a few splashy rises to mayfly !!! Got three of the rises and two perspectivly cast to likely trouty areas !!
Wandering with the length of the Lugg, the wild streams has only two beats now !!!! Wowser.... there's fab water running through and out of Leominster and beyond .... let's get them on the wild streams WUF ...Middlemoor went, that was dam good and we're just left with Litton and the jungle down at Pilleth !!!! Few phone calls and I'm sure landowners would relish 12 quid a day from a wild stream fisher!! Tis a no brainer ....
Anyway, worked up a mega thirst for a cooooool bottle of Thatchers ..... very well earned ...ohhh highlight was seeing a good few roe deer, close up too.... very nice !! And a haunting snort thrown in as well, from one buck !! Five lugg brownies, hands all stung to bits..... lifes not tooooooooooooo bad hey!!! Lol !!!

5 Trout

Water very cold, river about a foot higher than usual for late April. No hatch, no fish!

Difficult access to most of stretch, barbed wire, fallen trees, livestock water gates etc. Shame

Very low and clear! Had a couple of hours but no fish seen. Lovely location but shame to see what looked like rubbish from farm dumped and and what looked like signs of vegetation treated with herbicide nearby

Well , with some good rain last night and right up to half eight in Herefordshire thought I'd venture back up to the Lugg at Litton and also fish some of the club water ..... fish happy to come up and take a dry.... started with a Para Adams in the shallower streamer water ... good success and also a tiny f fly scored well..... still low here,but very pleasant ... did perhaps half the beat ... a few missed this morning but managed to bring to the net half a dozen, ranging from six to eleven inches in size . A pleasant couple of hours .... I did see two mayflies too !!! Bonus !! There is a few additions across the Stream but its always been a wild one this ....

On the way back , couldn't resist another hour through the town stretch so waders back on six foot two weight in tow and back in the river at quarter to one ..... lots rising and some big big grayling seen too !!! Saw a dozen or so mayflies here ... what a difference a few miles makes........Anyway three savage splashy rises to my Parachute Adams and three to hand here and a few missed !!!! Great fun ...... could have done with another six hours of the wet stuff but still had some fun in a dry quite sunny morning on and off!! Back up to the Lugg again very soon ... spot on !!!

8 Trout

Fish seen swimming away, a few splashing rises but no fish taken very low and clear

Access very difficult either side and with several livestock fences across the river making movement upstream from the parking space bridge unrealistically difficult. Not worth fishing - and that's not because we didn't catch.

A pleasant few hours in p.m. on bottom half of beat. River low and clear with slight grey tinge. Very quiet till about 6 p.m. when a few fish seen moving, but no surface activity. Just one silvery trout of about 8oz came to a nymph in a deep pool, but escaped the net.

Tried the Pilleth beat for a few hours this afternoon - far too hot and bright really, but still had a lovely time. This is a REALLY wild stream and can only be described as 'very challenging'. Lots of really promising runs and stretches but all so overgrown that getting a fly on the water in vaguely the right place is quite an achievement. Tried a small tan clink for a while but no takers so swapped over to a small DHE and then started getting a bit of interest. Managed to get a couple to the net - gorgeous fish, one jumping a couple of feet out of the water!

2 Trout

Fished short section in middle of beat late p.m. & evening. Water clear and good flow after yesterday's rain. One 8" brownie to a gold head hare's ear, otherwise quiet. Kingfisher flashing past periodically.

1 Trout