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Turned up at The Court of Noke beat just before six ,day seemed like September, dull overcast and really blustery later on !!!! Balsam has grown ballistic here and lots of trees down, actually really messy compared to what this lovely beat used to be like three or four years ago !!!! Lots of work to be done here to get it back to scratch!!!!

Onto the fishing , not a lot of surface activity ,but has some great fun with a caddis pattern and aqua baetis nymph , good confident pulls on them., and some lunkers too the net this morning , nothing really small, five of the fish between ten and thirteen inches , really fat strong fish too !!!!

My last one , its lie I shall keep a mystery ,had me a real run around in the deep deep water ,I thought I was into a chubb ,only to reveal itself to be a gorgeous brownie, must have pushed two and a half pounds , an absolute lump, and I'm guessing twenty , perhaps twenty two inches ,a beaut !!! My best wild streams brownie for a while!!! Rested him for a minute in the net , then off he went , and if I still smoked , that would gave been the time to spark up a tab , with a shaking hand lol !!!!!

A fun few hours , with six Noke beauties to the net , got out by the bridge in somewhat disbelief, superb to net such a leviathan!!! Oh on a bit of a sour note did spook two comorants on the way down, would have made a perfect double for the Beretta !!! A great morning ,back here soon . . . . .

6 Trout

2 trout, with the largest being 2lbs.

2 Trout

A short session because I got fed up with a wader full of water ....brand new ones too. Not ideal! Water with a tinge if murkiness from recent rain....visibility not good, but managed a couple on a stonefly nymph. Back when waders are replaced....or a trip to Hindwell with the thigh waders if I can’t wait!

2 Trout

Arrived at 8pm for a couple of hours to explore this beat for the first time, manged 4 and dropped a couple off. Biggest was 1 1/4 lb. All on nymphs.

4 Trout

Thunderstorms curtailed my trip. Didn't fish.

Escaped for a couple of hours late this afternoon after being stuck at home due to a heavy mornings rain and a stint on the wife's job list. Managed to fool 5 of various sizes all on black klinkhammers, all safely returned. Missed loads of takes I think it's my age. What a joy to find easy parking and a lacking of barbed wire.

5 Trout

Fished 10am-2pm. After initial rain shower, the sun quickly dried things off. Quite a muggy day actually. No fish see rising, so on with the duo and winkled 5 lovely spotted brownies out of runs that were accessible. LOTS of trees across the river recently fallen by the looks. No option but to climb out of the river and back in the other side....not an easy job! WUF: Any possibility of hauling these out? They are willows, so growing vertically and will get harder to shift therefore.

5 Trout

Blanked. Plenty of great habitats but many stretches inaccessible. Absolutely poured down most of the evening. So not a great day but hope to return sometime.

Lovely couple of hours on the river. Overcast and breezy but plenty of fly life on the river. Didn’t see many trout, just a couple rising once, and couldn’t tempt either. However nice stretch of river and will be back to fish again.

Late afternoon visit & first time on this beat & so really worked out how to get at the fishing & from which bank to get in. As I walked to the weir at the bottom I saw several fish rising & taking various upwing species. Sat down & put a fly on & they all knew I think; Only saw two more fish rise in the next 2 hours. Missed one caught the other. He was a fighter too but went back safely. We are so lucky to be able to isolate on such beautiful stretches of British countryside. I shall be back ,earlier & with a better plan of action .
By the way the not-so-little spider who lived behind the felt in the lid of my Wheatley fly box had obviously had enough of playing 'jack-in-box' & had planned his escape; As soon as I opened the box he shot out like a bullet ,down my wader leg & off into the long grass. I suspect he was quite hungry having been in there for some months. I shall miss him though.

1 Trout