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Dire. Catastrophic bank erosion, the river is completely inaccessible along the entire length of the beat. Fallen trees and soft mud on the top third make access impossible. The lower two thirds are only accessible if you have a 15’ ladder in your rucksack.

Didn’t fish. High banks and electric fences for the cattle just made it too difficult to access the water so I gave up and went to a different beat.

Almost didn't fish due to the very wet weather forecast from midday, but got up early to get a few hours in the morning. In the overcast conditions it fished quite well for a couple of hours before the heavy rain came - a decent hatch of pale wateries, also low numbers of a few other mayfly species inluding yellow may, olive upright and large brook dun - caught two nice trout off the top.

2 Trout

Very hard access. Very hard for wading. Plenty of bug life only 3 fish rasing, managed two

2 Trout

River clear and 1'1". There were LDOs hatching in the am, but trout ignored them. But fish did rise later in the am to something much smaller.
Access to the river is limited at this height of water. Banks are steep or vertical ! The top of the beat is only accessible through a jungle of rafted-trees and branches, Himalyan Balsam, Japanese knotweed, nettle and brambles.
Lovely to see kingfishers and lots of sand martins that were setting up their colony.
3 trout on dry flies

3 Trout

Tough fishing. Only 1 caught

1 Trout

The water was difficult to access also because of cattle in the field. Some rising fish around noon. Caught three trouts on nymphs. I lost a good fish on an orange spider (hook bend up).

3 Trout

River very high

Blanked! Tough conditions - it was cold with a downstream northerly wind, and little hatching. Fishing was slow as a result but I did get a few bites on dries and nymphs, and was a bit unlucky not to land at least one - had three come off the hook. Although two also due to my early season rustiness - stumbled on round stones while wading/ fumbled line with free hand on two, they only needed a split second of slack line and gone!

2 Trout