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Hailstones, rain, wind and some sun, but a cold day, and no sight of fish.

Very Hot, fished for a couple of hours before the thought of a cold beer got the better of me.
One Brown Trout on a Mayfly.

1 Trout

Lower beat was productive

5 Trout

Fished from about 4.30pm-8.30pm. Had been a funny day weather wise, and the river seemed to be in a funny mood until 7.00ish. Might also have have been down to the pair of other anglers with dogs already on the beat when we arrived. Seemed like nice chaps, and we worked around each other, assuming they were from Kington AC, but as they were leaving at the end of their session, said they were also fishing on a WUF day ticket... odd. Anyway, a brief if heavy shower at 7.00 preceded a moderate hatch, and we had lovely last hour with slightly more cooperative trout.

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10 Trout

3 Trout

First time fishing this beat, bit of a challenge to say the least!! Lots of vegetation and very difficult to negotiate with bank access overgrown and very limited casting space. However achieved five lovely trout to hand using a Grey Wullf pattern as there were plenty of Mayflies hatching. There were some torrential downpours and this freshened the water and increased the fish activity when accompanied by some late evening sunshine. I found the downstream part of the beat gave much better opportunities as there were bank areas which allowed a more 'relaxing' cast, however I was never really sure where the downstream beat ended? All in all a good 'wild stream' beat which gives rewards if you are prepared to crawl, fight the vegetation and achieve a decent cast

5 Trout

Warm, mixed skies, pretty still, with a good amount of insect life around. A few mayfly stragglers, but mainly on to the BWOs/other small upwings now. Dries, nymphs and small streamers all caught, mostly 8" ish, a couple up to 12", all feisty fish in great condition. Photo a typical example - bright colours and distinct remaining parr makrs. An enchanting mallard family company and regular flypasts from the kingfisher capped a wonderful afternoon and evening.

25 Trout

First time on this best , arrived and headed off in the field upstream, towards far end of field is a deep swamp managed to loose both wellies getting very cross and muddy. Finally extracted myself headed downstream to a likely spot and cheered up by catching a couple in quick succession. Things really improved when fishing pal Greg arrived with a fab lunch washed down with black water. Headed downstream further but very inaccessible overgrown and shallow came back to start and six more fish came to a ptn. Very few rising. Good day out but limited fishing spots certainly for 2 anglers.
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8 Trout

8 Trout

A very late return, apologies, I thought I had submitted this previously but evidently not. An excellent afternoon/evening, with 6 to nymphs in the afternoon, and another 10 mainly to dries after a torrential downpour freshened things up in the evening.

Frisky cows in field and in the river next to the parking spot, and a shiny new 3 strand barbed wire fence further downstream necessitated some nettle bashing and belly crawling at times.

16 Trout