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Good river flow. A lovely beat with a variety of conditions. Few rises, mostly nymphing techniques used. Couple of lost fish - none landed. Cattle in field very inquisitive - enclosure very useful to protect cars.

I small trout or parr. Lots of goosanders.

1 Trout

1 Trout

1 Trout

Stronger wind than expected had a big impact on this very open accessible beat- not a take on nymphs and only saw one rising fish-put a crippled mayfly pattern over it and it was game on. Just getting the net out and away went the fish! Hung on until 7pm, but still blowy. Although the river is low, there is plenty of water to fish. Must try it on a calmer day.

A wonderful afternoon on a great section of the river. Despite the low flow level there were a few pools holding trout. we spent much of the afternoon in the shade doing very little and I imagine that any sensible trout would be doing the same. There were plenty of olives coming off all day and fish started to rise later in what was a glorious evening. 3 trout of about 1lb caught on olive spinner patterns.

3 Trout

Warm and sunny. River low.
All fish caught on nymphs, and all a good size - including my PB which I reckon was 3lb.... had to sit down once I'd got it in!

6 Trout

A great section of the river. Despite the low flow level there were plenty of deeper pockets holding trout. Caught four decent fish on a bead head pheasant tail nymph and rose two more to a grey Wulff, but couldn't make them stick. There was a trickle of olives coming off all day and fish rising in the back eddies eating spinners and shucks.

4 Trout

Beautiful bit of river. Fishing rather tricky as it was at summer low, sunny, clear and with a difficult downstream breeze at times, but managed to catch two - 16 and 10". Although a warm sunny day there were some black gnats and hatches of small mayflies which produced some takes. In fact I had at least a dozen bites but one of those days where they were very hard to hit and keep on, the fish had a knack of rolling off the hook - including three other nice fish of 13-15" near the net. The sand martins were more enthusiastic - many hawking and zooming back and forth into the river banks! Lots of other birds too on the banks including oystercatcher, greenshank, goosander and asmall flock of greylag geese. Ironically the bigger fish was accidentally lassoed around his shoulders after he took a dry and jumped, he wasn't too keen on that and charged off upriver - in one long run he took me into the backing with my drag still paying out! Incredible power, if I hadn't seen him jump initially would have thought he was much bigger! He was absolutely fine once I'd untangled him though, in beautiful condition (probably been munching green drakes for the last month, but those seem to have passed now!), and swam off strongly.

One slightly alarming note - every thirty minutes or so a few huge lumps of foam the size of footballs came drifting down. I know some foam can be natural, but when the river is so low, not fierce or especially windy that was a bit concerning - possibly some pollution with detergents/agricultural pollution from fertiliser run-off? Also there was a fisherman on the far bank when I arrived, he then went upstream when I went to the lower limit so no problem as there is plenty of river here, would assume he had the rights to the far bank. Still plenty of fish and a lovely stretch of river - thanks for letting me fish it!

Fishing Passport Note : There will always be the potential for someone fishing opposite on single bank fisheries.

2 Trout

Tough going on a very bright sunny day. Very little fly life and very few signs of any trout

1 Trout