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First time on this beat. The wading was a little trickier than expected, but manageable with my home-made wading staff. The river was low with little flow in sections. Plenty of hatches: olives and yellow may - although strangely enough, I took both fish on a Caddis Pattern.
1 x nine-inch brown trout (taken on peeping caddis jig)
1 x grayling. As it was OOS I put it back quickly without measuring. But it was a chunky beast. (taken on Klink Caddis Green)
Unforecast rain stopped play at 4 p.m. so I couldn't add to my tally, but I'm happy enough with this pair.

Note: If the chap from Cheltenham who shared the beat has lost a Grey's fishing reel case, I've picked it up and can post it, if he gets in touch.

Booking Office note: Please contact the office if you wish to help organise the return of lost items.

1 Trout, 1 Grayling

4 trout to 15 inches

4 Trout

We caught 3 trout (one of 14 inches)and 2 salmon parrs on the wet fly. The successful fly was the dark moorgame.

3 Trout, 2 Other

8 Trout

A beautiful day on a beautiful beat, cloudless skies and very warm, masses of fly life but mostly in spinner form, very few flies actually emerging today but I did see one Mayfly, one or two Large Brook Duns and a few other upswings and caddis but rising trout were few and far between and quite small. Nevertheless I persevered with dries and took 6 trout and missed/lost a few others too so it was a lovely day on the river.

6 Trout

4 Trout, 3 Grayling

3 Trout

3 small brownies. Had a few more good takes on dries.

3 Trout

Another cold start of the day. No flies seen, so forced to fish with long leader, an heavy nymph on the point and a selection of spiders. All fishes taken on the a small grey spider, size 14. Best fish, a pretty healthy BT around 2 pounds, safely released

3 Trout, 1 Grayling

I arrived at the beat (which was very easy to find as per the instructions) at around 10am. There was a very cold and constant north easterly wind blowing down the river. I found it practically impossible to cast up-stream, and wasn't a pleasant experience in general. I stayed for around an hour, there were no rises and I had no bites from trotting a couple of nymphs along the bottom, so I decided to call it quits.