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13 x trout 6-8 inches, Goldhead Hare's Ear nymph. This one has also woken up, with the trout inhabiting the fast runs rather than the dubs. I didn't see any rises. I'm afraid the delayed forestry thinning work has made rather a mess of the centre section of this beat for now, but there is still a good 4 hours fishing here.

13 Trout

15 x trout 6-9 inches, Rusty Klinkhammer. Still low, although recent showers have put a bit of colour into it.

15 Trout

I spent a quiet evening exploring the top end of the Cannop Brook close to the weir. Fish were rising to mayflies. Three trout to hand largest at 9 inches, one on kites imperial, two on Hares Ear Nymph. Joined by a tree creeper and a fallow deer in the dusk. Will return.

3 Trout

Warm bright evening, A few duns hatching but little evidence of rising fish. Lost 4 6-8 inch WBT on GHHE tied on Czech nymph #18 from fast water at heads of pools.
landed only repeatedly rising. 6" WBT on size 10 hackled GHE.

1 Trout

Beautiful day. Interesting flora and fauna in this brook including tyres and a couple of of car doors. Caught 1 x 10" and 1 x 5" trout on rusty (ha ha) klinkhammer.

2 Trout

Good flow bright day and warm. All fish to traditional spider patterns tie on Czech nymp h size 18. Best fish 7"
A truly magical spot shared with dipper mandarin and kingfisher The only thing which spoiled the ambiance was the large amount of timber and several pieces of scrap metal. Could really do with some low level maintenance work.

6 Trout

7 x trout 6-9 inches, Goldbead Hare's Ear. Most fish still on the bottom in the deeper dubs, but I got one seen rising.

7 Trout

A surprisingly bright, sunny day with fish to 8" on a elk hair dry.

7 Trout

6 x trout 6-8 inches, Rusty Klinkhammer. Not such a good plan, today's early morning trip. Rain before and after dawn produced dripping steamy humidity on the forest floor by the stream. So dark and warm was the morning, it felt like a Florida swamp at the bottom of the Cannop valley. No alligators or water mocassins, but plenty of mosquitoes were apparent. Late September is not supposed to be like this. My main problem was being unable to see the dry fly because my glasses were constantly misting up. Absolutely no chance of seeing the dry fly without my glasses. So I blundered about, getting steadily more hot and bothered. The ones I did catch were mostly hooked as I began the back cast, having totally missed the fact that the fly had gone under.

6 Trout

A dull day, water low but with a little colour, 1-2 rises, very little fly life. Caught 2 very small trout, lovely colours these small stream trout have. This is a very nice stream spoilt by lots of rubbish in the water, old tyres, wooden pallets plastic gates and other stuff. A shame.
In addition, on arriving at the top of the beat, there were 2 children with their dad fishing with float and maggots. The father stated he had no idea the fishing was private or required a permit. I was also informed by a walker that the river is regularly fished by children and adults with maggots, again a shame!

2 Trout