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As others have stated quite overgrown and hard to access any fishing. Was only in for an hour or so while passing and lovely to be back in the river

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Reasonable amount of water moving through with some colour. Two trout about 3/4lb, both to p black bead head nymphs.
Two other fish hooked but lost. Lovely to be on the river.

Previous returns comment on lack of accessibility. The most frustrating aspect of this for me was the style to access the second meadow. The bottom rung/step was way to high - approx 6 inches above my knee ( I am 5ft 9). God knows how anyone smaller than me would get over it.

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First time in the usk, access is really difficult for the first half of the beat from Ashford house , but gets easier as you move towards the bridge bailiff said “river was up slightly on normal level “ plenty of pale watery’s coming off , no activity on the surface, will try again maybe later on in the day next time , enjoyed the day tho.

All caught to grey cdc emerger. River low but good evening had

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One smal brownie on a beaded brown nymph.

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Caught a good size trout and a smaller fish on heavy nymphs in faster water.
As mentioned in previous returns, access has become very challenging and I could only manage to get to the river at single location(Chain pool, I think) and so the rest of beat remained effectively off-limits.

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Not my best day on this, one of my favourite beats. It is very difficult to access the river in midsummer when the bracken on the banks is so high that you cannot work out where to fight your way through to get to the relatively few access areas down the steep banks. Stiles are all broken and there is no field margin path through cereal crops, so, until you get to the last field on the beat it is quite challenging. Once in the river I tried to wade as far as possible bit getting out was no easier than getting in. Some fly hatches but fish rises were once per fish, it seemed. However, the highlight of the day was watching a dog otter fishing about 30m away from me. I watched him diving and turning over stones and coming up with small fish (bullhead? Stone loach?) for 45 mins. He knew I was there and wasn't bothered at all. Trout weren't bothered either as I caught one a few minutes after he drifted away downstream. An absolute treat.

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