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A good challenge for a wild stream fisherman.
Good hatch of fly, including mayfly.
These fish really know where to rise to make it most trickey for the fisherman.
Great value for money

RJM

2 Trout

Arrived around 9:30 and had the first fish within five minutes. A few Yellow May Duns coming off and the odd Mayfly. No fish rising consistently though and had to wait until mid afternoon for the next fish. About 3:30pm the Mayfly had built up a little and the remaining fish all came within the next hour before things died off again. The early fish came to a Greenwells, the remainder to a size 10 Adams.

5 Trout, 1 Chub

Nothing caught, no rising fish, one or two mayfly showing and plenty of other flylife above the water. Disappointing beat with long stretches of shallow fast water with no obvious holding features. Luckily had also booked the next beat up so moved on quickly and enjoyed the next beat much more.

This was a tough days fishing with very little sign of rising fish and only a few mayfly showing. The water was slightly coloured which affected visibility in the deeper pools. Caught two trout (6-8") on dry fly towards the top of the beat where the footbridge crosses and one other very small (3") tiddler on a size 20 black nymph.

3 Trout

Low, clear and bright, nil return due to inept wading and too long 8ft rod, never the less good evening spent stalking several rising fish.

Again no joy. No salmon seen or touched.
Water maybe a bit low but by no means bare bones and maybe still to early in the season. Starting to lose faith in this beat, looks like lovely water. But even when fish are being taken on nearby beats I've not had any luck here. Probably need to persevere. But every time a spend a day here I finish thinking I probably would have been better going somewhere else.

Lovely evening light winds, 2 rainbow caught approx 2lb on intermediate line with small black Daiwl Bach nymph.

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Very pretty water, but not as easy access as we were expecting for a 'mature' party, especially at the downstream end. Quite a few rises but not to the flies we were fishing.

2 Trout

Nothing showing when we arrived and a dry fly was ignored. The first fish, about 7" came to a goldhead. There was a prolific hatch of mayflies and others which delighted the birds but the fish ignored. It was easy to believe that there were no fish in the river, which is very low, and we saw nothing move until after lunch. Saw five fish rise and caught one of them, about 12", on a mayfly.
It is a beautiful spot and if we had gone to take photographs, watch birds, or enjoy a delightful bit of the countryside, the day would have been counted a total success.
For any doubting Thomas's, there is a waterfall, but it is a long way up the river.

2 Trout