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Fished 3 till 7. Plenty of fish rising at bottom of beat from lower bridge upwards, all taken on French Partridge. 6-12 inches but mostly small. Very few fish rising at top of beat in spite of good spinner fall.

8 Trout

1 x 6 inch trout dry fly. Four school boy poachers spinning the water turned off the top end.

1 Trout

3 x trout 6-12 inches, Grey Wulff

3 Trout

All small trout, difficult bright conditions. All on dry.

7 Trout

Nice river with very easy access. To wade through the water is also easier but there are a few fallen trees in the middle of the river. The water was clear and a good flow. I was nymphing with Spanish bullet nymphs and some french micro nymphs. No activity on the surface but a lot of fish at the fast water and at the end of the pockets. I took 8 brownies between 6 and 8 inches, Besides a few smaller ones. All returned safely.

8 Trout

A very tricky bright day. Plenty of fly life on the water but only saw around 3 rises in the time I was there. A lovely beat with a lot of effort put into maintenance. Had 3 small trout 4-6 inches on a tungsten pheasant tail with just as many missed. Did find a nasty bit of barb hidden away in the grass just to put a hole in my waders! Either way a lovely couple of hours on the river.

3 Trout

Decided to give the Whittern beat a bash , thinking it would be pushing through at a fair old pace , and when I parked up by the bridge , the flow was pushing through pretty quick , with a bit of colour.

Tackled up with my six foot two weight , a team of two very small suggestive tungsten nymphs thinking they may get down a bit in the water . I did grapple down to the waterside , and watched the water for a while , no rises at all . . . . . And yet there were quite a few olives about , and also hawthorn flies , bumbling clumsily around !!!!

The bottom half of the beat seemed fairly quiet to be honest , and it was a while and a couple of pools later , before I had a good take on my tungsten nymph by a five inch brownie , cracking colouration fighting well above its weight !!!!

Two more followed in the next hundred yards or so , both about eight or nine inches , carefully wading upstream . By midday , the water seemed to be clearing just a tad . . . . . Takes seemed to be very tentative , and I missed a few in succession , just a slight nudge on the line !!!!

My fourth fish was my best of the day at about ten inches , again another beautifully marked brownie , took my tungsten nymph confidently . I'm sure the water fining down made the trout more eager to take .

This is a cracking beat , and some fabulous water , would have been better had I perhaps left it another day , no trout looking up yet on this stretch , come on guys time to get into training , it's mayfly time soon . . . . . . .

Shall give the Arrow another crack in perhaps a couple of weeks , and I'm sure as always it'll seem totally different then , something like Belize !!!! But hey these wild streams are always great fun , was happy with the four feisty little fighters , a fun four hours , spot on !!!!!!!

4 Trout

Hardly fished at all,. as had spent time fishing beat mentioned in previous return but did walk up the stream without spotting a single rise or sign of fish.

The wind and rain finally held off for a few hours so I had a day just fishing the top half of the beat to the end. There's some great stretches here with easy access and casting. A few tiny flies hatching, not enough to bring on a rise, but there were a few rising and I managed to catch 8 trout, one a good 14 or 15 inches. All took a small size 16 emerger pattern.

8 Trout

A disappointing day for me. Cloudy, drizzly showers, cool, downstream wind. River low and clear. Hooked and lost one fish at about 10:30am (the silver flash as it rolled off suggests perhaps a grayling) but didn't see another fish for the next 6 hours. River conditions? Low stocks? Or just me? In One or two places trees have fallen right across the river necessitating an difficult exit. In one case up in the Lyonshall woods, that had to be on the wrong bank but I'm sure that was Ok.