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Didn't fish, river chocolate brown

7 Trout

We always have a day on this favourite beat - was under threat this year as it had rained. When we stood on the bridge at Disserth to assess the possibilities we could see the river was slightly coloured and up a bit - but three fish rose to tempt us and we thought that if there was a hatch we might make hay.....
No such luck! Very little fly life and on the beat where much of the wading is tricky we couldnt access usual fish holding areas due to lack of visibility in the water. So confined to the top half of the beat where James managed to winkle one 9 inch trout out but other than a few sub surface "bumps" that was it.

We will be back....

1 Trout

The river was pushing through and very coloured. Two of us fished but sadly no grayling to report.

Arrived too late I'm afraid, but gave it a go anyway with an hour left of daylight. Access was fine actually except for the barbed wire fence at the start of the beat. There is no gate or stile and requires scrambling out on a tree trunk overhanging the rivers edge to get across which would indeed be difficult for those with reduced mobility/older anglers. Extra care should be taken wading as the river bottom drops off suddenly in sections. No luck today Czech nymphing but I rushed through most of it trying to beat the sunset.
Thank you!

Low water, slightly coloured. No fish seen moving or rising, despite good hatches of mayfly. Conditions bright and hot.

Arrived pm and walked the two fields to the wooded area. This had been quite recently fenced off so that it was almost impossible to access wood/bank - particularly if infirm (as I am). Managed to get over via a fallen tree but with difficulty. The bank side in the wooded area was difficult to access (would be more so if river higher than it was today) and the wood itself high banked. I think there should be a public footpath via the wood but I could find no evidence of the path or access to the wood. Reached the end of the wooded area to find no exit but evidence that barbed wire had been pushed down but not far enough for me. Gave up and returned without fishing. The access to this beat must be sorted. River itself looked interesting but with a lot of weed - I only saw one rise.

We had an excellent day on this challenging beat last year so a return was definitely on the cards. The weather really couldn’t make its mind up today with alternating cold intervals – including showers – and warm spells.
There was plenty of fly life about – sedges, olives, conspicuous yellow mays and mayflies, which the fish haven’t woken up to yet. We fished dries all day for 14 trout and 1 grayling – the best trout came in the evening when the sun had come out for a golden sunset, and measured 12” – despite the fact that they were all plump I suspect the total weight of the other 14 fish would not have tipped the balance against the 12 incher! So plenty of small ones which does not include the 2” minnow that somehow took a dry…
A few other fish bumped off including a couple of other decent ones. The peregrines are resident again but no other significant wildlife observed.
Some days fishing stand out head and shoulders for different reasons – this beat is just great fun. Of and as for conventional dry fly wisdom – forget the dead drift, most of my fish took a skating fly!

14 Trout, 1 Grayling

High water impeded access, look to return another time. Nil return.

2 Trout