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Absolutely beautiful beat would encourage everyone to try it. Lots of fish rising to midge but I couldn't for the life of me catch one. Tried many patterns and wasn't spooking the fish which continued to rise. Maybe the leader was putting them off? At any rate, do not hesitate to try this beat. I will deffinately be returning.

It was a shame that temperatures today plummeted and the wind picked up. The recent WUF trout reports on the Edw being a river of the moment had to slow for someone, although for just a little bit I thought I was going to have a big day! My first cast of the season tempted up a 10" WBT to a Para Adams and then within 6 casts two more from the same pool one of which a nice 12" fish. However, that was more or less it. Cold gusts, the absence of any significant fly-life and my stubbornness to stick with drys, meant only one more fish later in the day after lunch. Cregrina is a great beat and varied and the top half is not as featureless as I presumed after reading the beat sheet. I enjoyed the whole and noted that it had been recently cut back a bit.

4 Trout

Full cloud cover that vanished for a hour to show a muted white orb in the sky, but no rain! Water had the slightest colour, but was still very thin - visibility had dropped to maybe 3 feet of depth. Temperatures: 16-22. Fly hatches were mainly clouds of brown/purple mayflies on all sandy streches, some late browns and the ubiquitous dusters and other tinys. I tied some gold head GRHE's overnight and these were the fly of choice again... best trout a 7.5 inch perfect trout from a classic pocket water - as if the wbt had been reading fishing books. Fewer salmon parr than yesterday. Lots of fish nibbled at the size 18 and 16 flies. More rises than yesterday, but I didn't get any offers to a range of dries. Just the deep sunk gold bead GRHE nymph with an induced take.
Trees on the upper section's last 400 metres...Oh my! I managed to climb over most, but slipped climbing over one large trunk and went in head first - ungainly as a sealion at feeding time. Which is interesting and highly amusing! Then very next tree, I got hooked up and went in again, but not a diver that time... What with fighting my way through this jungle and emptying the old waders twice, I took almost 7 hours to do this single beat - started fishing at 10 and finished at the top (where I had optimistically parked my car for the Hundred House section) just before 5. Frankly, the last 100 metres was unfishable due to the tangle of fallen saplings - but did contain some fish. I know, because I spooked them.
Next time I'll go into training before venturing out on this river. Brilliant day.

6 Trout, 2 Other

Rain made fishing difficult and no fish were landed but I enjoyed my day, wading a little tricky.

Nice place, nice day, nice fish. I was there four hours and was very nice. The river is not easy to wade, but it is beatiful. Nice spot, I'll be back. All trout catch and release, with dry flies. Elk hair and olive Klink.

3 Trout

Water levels surprisingly low, fished for a few hours with a few small trout taking the dry fly enjoyable fishing.

3 Trout

Challenging yet rewarding days fishing on this lovely stretch of river. Loads of insect life with fish rising throughout, although in some rather hard to cast to places. Fished the duo, with all fish taken on either GRHE, or Pheasant Tail, nymph. Mostly small stuff, although had one of 3/4 pound and a bigger one that was well over a pound.

10 Trout

Nice beat, slightly over grown top sections, very frustrating day plenty of olives on water but trout only taking them in between gorging on the millions of midges that were on every pool. Tried size 20 f-fly to no success ,dry olive only taking a couple. Put on size 18 black magic sunken under the clouds of midges and took over a dozen. Did not complete the beat as only had limited time.

12 Trout

A lovely place to fish - a great recommendation from the Booking Office! Cool (13-15 degrees) with some patchy sun. A lot of fly life hatching consistently through the day but almost no activity on the surface.
Fished the bottom section, from 1 - 6pm, up through the pools. Largely using a size 14 rust-coloured hi-viz klinkhammer, with a size 16-14 weighted PTN 18 inches underneath. Had about 10 trout of 4-10 inches, two on the klink and the rest on the nymph. I missed a hatload more and some interest to a dry fly from the one consistently rising rish I did see (missed it twice!). I'll be back to explore the top end!

10 Trout

Very little rising and very little sign of trout. Most of the fish quite small (15-25 cms). Fishing dry and nymph. Virtually all fish caught on nymph. Stayed at Trerikett Mill guest house.

12 Trout