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We fished all day from 7.30 till 20.15, all we had between us was one bite which after two seconds decided that was enough. A truly hopeless day!! Nice place but the fishing left an awful lots to be desired!

Decided to fish a little later than I usually do and turned up at midday. The river looked wonderful however the amount of streamer weed coming down was unbelievable and didn't stop all day. It was all through the water column and I fished at least 8 different swims in an attempt to avoid it but to no avail. Lines didn't stay in the water longer than 10mins before being carried down stream and I was using up to 6oz.... This is the second time in 3 trips that this has happened and ruined the last of my three sessions. Appeared as though someone upstream was clearing swims as the weed looked cleanly cut.

Managed to somehow land 1 barbel at around 7lb and 2 chub of 3lb each. Not sure if I'll be returning!

1 Barbel, 2 Chub

Started fishing at 11.30am. Little action until just before dusk.

7 Barbel, 4 Chub

Fished the gravel bar swims on beat 4 and found good looking far bank swims with some nice fast water which we'd hoped would hold some Barbel. Tried fishing in the flow , rolling a bait through and letting the current take it well downstream but neither of us had a touch. Moved on to beat 2 around 5pm fishing just downstream of the island and just a sub 2lb Chub for our efforts.

1 Chub

4 Trout

Fished the evening after six o'clock. River running low with plenty of boulders sitting proud, but enough deep water pools to show the evening risers. One small brown trout caught and one 5lb plus jumping in front of me in a middle pool. Lovely beat to share with the local heron.

1 Trout

Just the one fish to hand today but bounced off a couple of good sized fish and where all up in the wooded section which is a fabulous section and just to be in there is a joy . River was very quiet with surface activity which kind of figures with the time of year , was hoping for late evening spinner /sedge action but not today. River bed is pretty greasy in places , had a few interesting moments! A nice number of fish on the go up top just above the mini waterfall (see pic)as you go in to wooded section , midway along the pool length and rising under the trees .Missed a couple in fabulous run below waterfall.
Besides trying to get one or two of the very good fish in the net that reside up here the mission was to soldier on up to the Senni confluence and have now sussed that out and here's how if its of help to others - hop over the wall at the road bridge across the river where there is a garden gate (padlocked) and follow the garden hedge to the right a short way(had a good chat with the house owner here as did think I may be encroaching on his garden but no problem at all ) and very shortly there's a set of stone steps down to the river . Go down those and then its flat bedrock with very little water running over (at this low flow) then walk up till you get to the tail end of a big long deep looking pool (could be interesting if there's a hatch on) and there you can scramble up the bank in to the long field .Follow the hedge line (skinny water for most part here above deep pool ) and then there's a hedged 'compound' with a set of large locked gates as you approach and about 25 yards before there you can get down the bank ok . Fabulous looking big pool here, verrry fishy and deep and with good flow too, flat bedrock slabs on the bank side so you can work up the side of the pool to next good pool above . That's as far as I got and only had time for few casts a the light as going and bit of a trek back to car park but looking at Google earth it looks like there's some interesting water around the corner and confluences can be good ! Next time.

1 Trout

1 Barbel

The fish were very easy to spook until dusk when I caught two and missed a few more on a CDC spinner. One was 12" and the other 10".

2 Trout