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Was lovely giving the Abbey Dore beat a bash this morning , weather looked good , fourteen degrees overcast , slight breeze . . . When I turned up at quarter to nine , Perfect . Had an initial chat with the lady from Tan house Farm , then bimbled down to the beat start , water was low , with a slight cloudiness too it , however still pushing through the pools nicely , things looked good !!!!!

Tackled up with the trustee six foot two weight , and initially a small gold head PTN , had a savage take on second cast at the head of a lovely pool , cracking brownie , about twelve inches perhaps , a good start ! Second fish was a beautiful grayling , again on the PTN , in another of the deceptively deep pools on the River Dore , great fun perhaps eleven or twelve inches then slipped back in !!

Next two brownies were like peas in a pod , both about eight inches from the pools of the little river , great scrapers and quickly released . I did have another grayling of about ten inches , in superb condition , admired then released , sport was pretty varied and fun to say the least under the tight canopy of the Dore . . . There is a lot of trees down on this beat though , adds too it's charm I guess !!!

Working slowly up river , had another one more brownie on the PTN , then a bit of surface activity was evident , so on with the Parachute Adams , and had two confident rises to it , and two scrappy ten inch fish to the net , both released , Great fun !!!

Did have a lunker on for a few seconds , put up a lovely bend in the two weight rod , but alas he threw the hook , dooooooh !!!! Such is life !!!!! If your prepared for some catapult casting and scrambling , then the Dore beat is great fun . . Only short and it took me three hours , arriving at the old foot bridge at bang on midday .

Good fun , five brownies and two cracking grayling to the net , shall give this beat another bash very soon , when it's got a tad more flow to it , happy days !!!!!!!

5 Trout, 2 Grayling

Fished for 2 hours between 11am and 1pm using dry flies and caught two small brown trout. Lots of mayflies and this pattern took the trout (which were released). Certain to be excellent fishing in the evening but we had other plans unfortunately.

2 Trout

Nice stream, still a bit more coloured than it might be after last week's rain but fish taking mayfly - caught 6 and missed quite a few.

6 Trout

Very warm and sunny. 1 take on winged Adams but not hooked.

18 Trout

8 Trout

Reasonable level of water.No sign of fish other than one small trout caught on gold beaded hares ear.

1 Trout

River was a bit high but fishable. No sign of any fish though. Sometimes one just fishes in hope.

This was a great way to spend a few hours,and it didn't matter that the rain was heavy for most of it! we waded the whole stretch having plenty of bites and converting 3 small trout.2 fish to T . Everitt and 1 to A. Davis. Tactics were gold head nymphs fished on a short line. Most of the fish were caught in the lower stretch of the beat. Overgrown in places but very enjoyable.

3 Trout

Almost unfishable due to low water level. Took me 90 mins to cover whole beat. A feisty trout of 11" was very welcome though, taken from a deep fast run.
8" Grayling also taken from a rare bit of fast water.
Access in and out of river is tricky, several fallen trees across the river don't help. How hard can it be Wye & Usk Foundation to get the local farmer to drag them out with his tractor? If these beats were more accessible and angler friendly you might get more bookings perhaps?

1 Trout, 1 Grayling