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River level low. Weather dry, cool and windy. Catch 1 Brown Trout c. 12" and 1 Salmon parr both safely returned.
Both fish taken on small nymphs 1 x Pheasant tail, 1 x GRHE.

A steady hatch of fly during afternoon including some mayfly. A few fish seen surface feeding.

Dippers seen on both lower & upper stretches of the beat. Otter spraint noted near bottom of beat.

I am fishing this beat for the third time now and it is a very pretty venue indeed but I still think £25 is a bit steep! Not all the length is accessible and I can never manage to fish this nice pool opposite the house, the owner beeing there all the time it seems!
On that day the water was very low and not many fish rising in proportion with the large quantities of duns of all sorts. The fish were more interested in taking small flies, gnats and emergers.
I took a few small trout on an invicta wet fly just under the bridge and one large 13" trout(blind) with a small depth charge nymph further downstream. No fish taken from the bridge upstream where usualy nice size grayling can be taken in a couple of pools. Very variable weather.

Lovely beat. Very pretty countryside. Good mayfly hatch every rising fish came to artificial mayfly. Caught two nice plump trout about half pound - each returned. Expected to see more fish but did see beauty in bend above bridge with bank with sand martins - must have covered it many times -bet it is uncatchable. Nice enough beat to go again. Plenty of good pubs for lunch close by.

Fishing difficult due to wind and thunder storms; very few fish rising although plenty of insects on the wing - caught 7 Brown trout, largest 12" and 1 Grayling 8"; Olive Klinkhammer with a small size 16 GHHEN dropper.

A good day for fishing some sun but generally overcast
Few fish seen moving, moderate hatch of brown jobs (sedge) middle day and again about 3pm. Water quite low. JW had 4 fish none retained, on I think nymphs. I had 2, again returned, one on a bibio the second on an Irish salmon fly (wet)with a green body and mallard wing, I think called a sooty olive. Quite difficult to decide how to fish this most attractive water.

10 trout, best just under a pound. The stiff easterly breeze made conditions quite awkward at times, but it was still a lovely day's fishing on this beautiful beat. The river was very low and clear, and most of the fish came from the deeper pools, taken on small weighted nymphs.

Hard days fishing. Not much happening plenty of black gnat, and the odd olive. A dozen trout to half a pound on a mixture of dries and nymphs. One tiny grayling.

One canoeist even on 'drought flows'! Heard my first Cookoo of the year.

2 brown trout, 1 grayling, all returned, on a GRHE nypmh. Very warm and sunny afternoon, river very low and clear.

Several small grayling (up to half a pound) in various pools upstream of the bridge; all taken on size 16 goldhead PTN fished above a heavy nymph. Great beat. Peaceful and very picturesque.

The weather was good, fished the whole of the beat with no grayling caught.