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The beautiful weather disguised the fact that it's still early to be fishing this beat. The Arrow was flowing strongly and carrying quite a lot of colour. I fished for a few hours without seeing any sign of fish. There was a particularly vocal and protective Welsh Black in the field designated for access to the beat near the lay-by. I had to abandon progress to the upper section when she stood in a cattle drink and wouldn't budge!

1 x 10 inch trout on nymph - fairly boisterous water with colour. This beat badly needs pruning, please note.

Wet, cold and fishless. Looks like a good beat for later on in year. Saw zero insects and no fish. Tried everything I know but clearly I don’t know enough! The only way is up....

First visit, got through 2/3 of the beat. 8 trout 4-12" mostly the upper end of the size bracket, with another 8 on but lost and several takes missed altogether. River here is absolutely packed full of fish, several shooting downstream with every step. Good quality water, a little too much rubbish lying around. Stream very hard to fish especially being so shallow at the moment, spent most of my time ducking under branches, fish caught where deeper runs were accessible. If anyone finds a net, enjoy using it.

8 Trout

Managed about three hours before the (much needed) rain really set in to make life miserable. Three trout to 9" all to a size 16 tungsten Pheasant Tail Nymph.

3 Trout

This beat was fished on Sat 13th May as part of the LAFA Wild Stream Fishing Day and a number of fish were caught.

A day fishing this beat during a Mayfly hatch a few years ago remains my most memorable day fishing. Since then there has been clearance work performed on this best; I assume more work has been done since last season. It isn't good news for the fly fisher. Much of the beat is now too shallow to fish and other sections resemble a canal with virtually no flow. There are short sections that contain fish but it's not what it used to be.
WUF note: this problem is down to the drought we are now experiencing

1 Trout

Fished no more than 300 yards of the best upstream from the access point from 15:30 to 18:00 on a rather overcast and humid afternoon. A little rain about 17:00. Caught one 8" BT on a gold head PTN and long distance released another on the same fly. A steady mayfly hatch from about 17:00 brought a number of fish to the surface. I spent the last 30 minutes trying to catch one particular fish which despite managing to move half a dozen times I failed to hook. Nevertheless a wonderful few hours on a fine, wild beat. Excellent value.

1 Trout

The morning overcast persisted but it grew steadily warmer and more humid as the day wore on. An amazing variety of birds were intent on picking off emerging upwings but the trout weren’t interested. Occasional movement subsurface seemed to be from smaller fish. I worked hard for my trout. I tried a variety of dries and emergers with little success. One fish rising in a shaded glide took a rusty Klinkhammer but the other five all came to small weighted nymphs. Best fish 8”.

6 Trout

2 fish taken. Lots of mayfly but relatively few fish rising. Fish taken on mayfly nymph. River looks healthy and lovely location /scenery. Wading harder than the description but maybe this was partly due to strong flow of the river

8 Trout