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Very warm and sunny, and river low.
Much of the river not accessible due to bank vegetation, and even though water was low, some very deep pools limit wading in places. So grateful however that time and effort has been made to provide access points which are clearly marked.
Beautiful, secluded beat.

3 Trout, 3 Grayling

Upstream dry fly klinkhammer. A couple of really fussy fish but worth the persistence. Access will be a problem if you struggle with mobility.
Great to see Rockfield Studios, an iconic recording studio.
Very few mayfly, not much fly life in general.

5 Trout

A lovely secluded section of the river, although access to the fishing is challenging as the banks were overgrown and had to hack through nettles and brambles to even see the river from the fields. Chest waders are essential as there is no fishing available from the bank. Trout were rising periodically and where I was able to cover them they we taking my dry fly. Had to leave a lunchtime, but would love to have stayed for the evening rise. A very enjoyable and reasonably challenging morning's fishing!

5 Trout

Access to the river difficult. No casting from bank possible. Perhaps river was up and bank reduced?

The river was basically unfishable in its present state.
Water chocolate brown cascading through and dangerous for wading even with a wading stick. I didn’t feel comfortable in any of the swims at the top end. I started in swim second from top fast flowing with a ruffle using streamer an. Anything else pointless. Lasted an hour pushing up into deeper water which around 4ft was not comfortable to wade in so I moved. I almost took a dive in the one below with the gravel bank on the far side depth went from 2 to 5 ft very close in and current extremely strong. I lost my footing and only saved from going belly up in the string current by grabbing a branch at the bankside. Apart from one swim at the top of the beat There were no swims where entry was reasonably safe and this hard a steep bank to climb out. Lovely setting but no chance of catching fish so with river rising cut my losses and left early. Wash off?

one fish of 1/3 ib one of 1/2 lb One on upstream pheasant tail nymph and one on downstream black pennell. Water a bit coloured level a bit above normal

2 Trout

Arrived around 3.30pm 4pm water looked good clear . Very windy not trouble me to much due to high banks.on arrival immediately noticed a good continual hatch of both grannom and ldo's but no fish rising to these around 5.30pm 6pm a small hatch march browns still no rising fish. I fished until 7.40pm having only fished a very small amount of the water available to me I managed 3 browns on heavy jig head very deep. Met the owner who was very obliging with information on access in / around houses. All details were correct and useful easy to find. However the recent big storms has left a lot debris and a lot of the yellow access markers/areas were a bit tricky to negotiate. On the whole a great bit of water. ( did see king fishers mandarin ducks padding from both mink n otter n badger deer slots and Canada geese tree creepers great afternoon

3 Trout

Tough going, managed a couple wbt on beaded PTN and a decent grayling on a similar pattern.

2 Trout, 1 Grayling

Fished the river for 4 hours, not a sign of a fish and no Grayling caught. Upstream nymphing and Czech nymphing. The upstream section is more accessible with a number of pools and riffles. It was a cold day around 8 degrees. A nice beat to fish with good parking close to the river.

River level was relatively low for winter but quite fishable , 3 Grayling and 1 Trout all on upstream nymphs
Nice peaceful place

1 Trout, 3 Grayling