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Nil returns. A good hatch, but nothing rising for the dry fly.

The river was looking sparkling with the water down and clearer than the previous week. Despite this the fishing was quite hard work with some ‘banker’ spots seemingly devoid of fish. I finished with ten wbt about four above the pound and one at 1lb 12oz. A good day but not quite the end-of-season send-off I might have hoped for.

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The river looked to be in excellent condition after recent rain and things did look rather promising. Despite this, the fish did not wholeheartedly come on the feed all day but remained hunker down near solid structure. Nevertheless, arrange of tactics - streamer, nymph, dry fly - produced fish to both of us throughout the day. Incidentally, one mink was spotted making his way along the far bank looking very much at home.

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2 caught in upper section of beat on dry fly. March Brown. 1/4 pound and 1.5 pound fish.

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This is one of the passport beats closest to my family cottage in the area so particularly convenient for an evening session.
Parking is in the village, adjacent to the excellent village shop.
Easy access via riverside path and in general easy wading but be careful if river is high.
The top section of the beat beyond the salmon pool is worth the effort but does involve more intrepid yomp through riverside undergrowth and boulders - note area to avoid marked red on the map.
We fished the evening session from 1730 onwards, river was relatively high so started with wets and streamers but to no success, later moved downstream and had a magical hour on the last section casting to rising fish just off the opposite bank - this took some wading to mid river (waist high so wading stick useful) and not for faint hearted if water high but usually quite do-able. My fishing companion took a beautiful 2lb WBT on a parachute Adams which he was very pleased with and was a pleasure to witness. I missed two other takes in the same place on the flats in the lower section of the beat.

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Really difficult day -drew a blank?

A great day on this lovely beat. I missed as many as I caught. Pleasing to catch a couple on duo and the rest on dries.

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