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Great day following some heavy showers. Water clear with a little colour. Slow to start with fish taking nymphs or black spiders. Fly hatch mid afternoon with a nice early evening rise with fish taking mayfly, Hawthorne, blue dune etc. No fish of any size but enjoyable all the same. Only criticism would be the over grown woodland sections. With over hanging branches and brash making access impossible to large sections of the beat, even by wading on at least one third of the beat, which was disappointing.

6 Trout

Enjoyed my day, some really nice streamy water. Some of the meanders however were rather dull. Lots hatching including mayfly. Caught loads of tiddlers using a variety of small pattern dry's, nothing else though - where were the bigger ones?

Evening session 7-10. Early fish on small tungsten hairs ear nymph. Fish started rising but I think smutting. Couldn't get them consistently interested in my tiny flies but a few splashy rises to small Wulff and later to spinners. Trout 9-11 inches in excellent condition and OOS grayling 9-12inches. Beautiful still evening.

3 Trout, 3 Grayling

Very hot and sunny, water level 1ft 3 inches on Lugg cam. Fish caught on nymphs (GRHE small) with the exception of 2 WBT on klinkhammers.

6 Trout, 6 Grayling

Hot and bright most of the day with some cloudy spells.
Moderate rises and this was when most fish were caught on dries on the main wide section below the foot bridge, although one angler had several pulls on nymphs and caught one on the fast flowing are in the woods but the bridge.

9 Trout

Conditions were very favourable and when my partner and I started on the water we were optimistic for a good day.
Being hardened dry fly fanatics when on the river we were determined to catch off the top. Started in the weir pool at the bottom of the beat but nothing rising. Tried nymphs but no success at all so moved up river after an hour or so.
A Mayfly hatch was underway and a few fish rising but with no consistency. We both pricked as well as hooked fish but nothing banked so I have to admit to blanking twice on the trot on this beat BUT the fish are here! Had good takes on CJ's Duck Dun as well as a Plastazote Mayfly but anything higher than a 4lb leader seems to give the game away. Stealth and a quiet approach is needed but for those anglers with the skill I suspect this stretch will reward. A few good fish did show amongst the splashy juveniles and the wooded section towards the bottom of the stretch housed a few good fish if you're skilled and brave enough to try making the cast. A short rod in the woods is a must, 7' being ideal.
We will return.

Clear river and bright sunshine. A wonderful day on a wonderful beat, even if the fish caught were small.

1 Trout, 6 Grayling

Too much fast coloured water. High wind and rain. Canoeists coming up from the bottom weir. Not a good day. Saw 4 mayfly.

The river was at 1ft 5inches on the local webcam and running fairly clear. The weather was cool (12 degrees) and the wind variable. There was a reasonable amount of fly life, both aquatic and terrestrial, but the fish did not seem very interested and very few fish showed during the day. Finished with a few fish to 10-12inches.
When we arrived there was a kayak lesson in full swing! 2 instructors and 4 teenage pupils in the main meadow below the footbridge. We moved them on but only after they had wrecked the fishing in that stretch. They claimed they had permission to launch in that meadow but would not give their names or contact details.

3 Trout, 4 Grayling

Small grayling caught using Czech nymphing. River was clear and steady pace.

1 Grayling