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Truelly great beat, but no luck.

Very few trout rising to very few flies - some LDOs and few more LBDs. Fish moving around to search for food. Very flighty in low clear water. A bright sunny summer's day in April dictated very tricky fishing - the "dog days of April"?!
This is however a fantastic beat and, given a few more inches of water and a decent hatch of fly, would likely provide superb fishing.

12 Trout

River very low and gin clear. My walking, wading and clambering efforts were eventually rewarded with a WBT. The fish was taking advantage of a very brief hatch of pale watery duns and happily mistook my Adams dry fly for a real one.
Penpont isn't what it used to be as a beat in the day of the "Penpont Porkers" - which I hope referred to the fish and not the regular anglers! However, it's still a varied beat and as long as you don't pick school holidays you may be untroubled by the fast-growing holiday campsite at the farm that owns the beat.

1 Trout

Cold day had some nice fish on nymphs

8 Trout

Cold, windy and bright. River gin clear and quite low. No fly, no rises and no fish.

6 Trout

Lovely beat. river quite clear with the trouts mainly sunbathing at the pool's tails. small olive hatch but very few proper rises.
managed to loose 3 trouts, one on the nymph and two on the dry.

No surface activity so spent most of the day fishing nymphs. A lovely beat but sadly no fish caught.

Fished nymphs all day and finally caught one fish by the bridge at Penpont

1 Trout

we fished spiders down, nymphs and dry flies up and apart from a couple of rises the fish were never in much danger of being caught.