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No fish caught. Did see some fishing rising for around 10 minutes around mid-day but that was about it. Also say a salmon jump under the pipe bridge. A few guys from the Merthyr club were also fishing the beat and had a chat about tactics. Will definitely return when slightly warmer and a not so cold easterly wind.

bright sunny day but a cold east wind. good hatch early afternoon so a short period of exciting dry fly action.

4 Trout, 1 Grayling

Haven't ever tried Chanstone Court beat , so gave it a go this morning . Cool start , six degrees , overcast and still , nice weather to be out , bimbled down passed the bridge , to the side of the oil seed rape field , and strewth talk about bad access , very few places to get in , and out !!!!!!!

The Abbey Dore beat is much more user friendly to be honest . I'm agile but this was a crazy beat . As lots of tight barbed wire every were , bit of a nightmare , anyway after the winge , onto the fishing !!

Nothing showing on top , still a tad early , so single tungsten size 18 olive nymph , took a while before any action , then wallop , confident take , and boy did he go !!! About ten inches , cracking condition , quickly released , good start . . . . . . . .

No more tackers for a while , then another deep pool , head of it , another good take , fish of about twelve inches , great colouration , and a nice run around on the two weight rod ! Slipped back in , happy days . . . . A pleasant few hours , a bit frustrating with the access , surely a few styles can be placed here and there for getting in and out of the stream ???? I guess we're spoilt , as there's plenty of streams all round herefordshire and the borders , so we can afford to be picky , ha ha ha !!!!

Will give this one another go from my usual Arrow , Lugg and Pinsley beats , it's still very pleasant , although I think Abbey Dore pips it hands down , nice chilled out three hours , two lovely Dore brownies caught and released . Another day off tomorrow, where too , mmmmmm I wonder !!!!!!! May be Bugeilyn or Talybont for a change ! After all variety is the spice of life !

2 Trout

Two lovely trout caught and released , report submitted below , few pics of three pleasant hours on the Dore , happy days , back soooooooooon . . . . . . . .

2 Trout

Not a sausage. Plenty of grannom coming off but did not see a single fish anywhere.

Two fish in 5hrs fishing. Overcast and chilly easterly. Small buzzer hatch late in the afternoon but no fish rising.

2 Trout

2 Trout

bit slow but not a bad day fishing bottom on worm no takes on wet fly and did not see any sign of surface activity .

9 Trout

Lovely well maintained beat by Glynn the ghillie. Lovely colour and height for the fly just above the mucky Lugg probably limiting things downstream today, seemed a good bet for one stopping off in the clearer water of the lovely Poachers pool! Fish seen early on and possibly one last thing but nothing took hold today. Oxford run fishing beautifully and the lie just off the little croy 70m down has had 3 so far - contrates the mind when nearing that and there's a ghillie to tell you this! Great spot all really well looked after so you can get at it. Ghillie, hut, (tea!) couple of cracking lies to fly fish easily for a good chance at a fish of a lifetime on fly. £25 plus booking fee, £10 tip, got to be good value compared with other beats which are not similarly "policed" or maintained. 1 respectful canoe kindly passing near side as requested.
Great days fishing and thank you all.

1 Other

Fished fly and lure all beats apart from 2. Three member rods out today not much going on. An enjoyable day on the river notheless.