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Cold Easterly, low water, nothing seen.

River looked in a bad way. Lots of rubbish seemingly from flood.

River seemed low across and most of the beat. It seems the named storms from earlier in the year may have brought down trees, some large ones and together with earlier flooding have collected all sorts of detritus including a road sign! Some deeper pools seem to stagnating as a result of the disrupted flows and low levels. I noted at the upper reaches some works have/are taking place that look like water extraction, is the Foundation aware of this?

Hi Guys

Fished the River Teme at bucknell

There was a lot of bank corrosion and fallen trees river looked in good stead but did not see any rising fish or did not spot any fish all day no fish caught on this particular day

Searching and booking the ticket on the Fishing Passport portal has been very smooth and efficient. The map and information about access and beat limits are easy to use, although I couldn't find an access to the river from the lower parking, and you need a gps (e.g. Google maps) in order to reference the upper and lower limits with your location.
I fished between 9.30am and 8.00pm on a hot, sunny day. The levels might have been low, although I don't know the average levels of the river. I found a great variety of flies, including olives, mayflies, sedges, stonefly (or similar), dragon flies, etc. They didn't hatch at once, but they were fairly present all the day long. This didn't translate in many rises. I have seen only one fish regularly rising at the bottom of a narrow fast flowing current towards the end of the day (a 20/25 cm brown trout which I catch on the dry) and one more odd singular rise at the top pool of the beat.
The rivers alternate shallows fast flowing stretches to very slow pools. Some of the pools are very deep. Wherever the flows slows down, the river holds a very big population of minnows and small fishes, some of them very aggressive on the flies, both dry and nymph. I ended up mistakenly catching two of them, one on the dry one on the nymph.
The other brown trout (probably just under 20cm) came on a nymph from a deep pool under a fast flowing current. All fishes has been returned to the river.
To be noted: there is a bridge that collapsed on the river, as well as other big round concrete objects on the bed of the river immediately further upstream.

2 Trout, 2 Other

First time on the Teme, fished from 08:00 til 13:00. A breezy morning put paid to presentation on such an open beat, water levels were low and gin clear. No hatch in the time I was there and no sign of fish. Disappointing but will give it another go when conditions change. Nil return.

Small Dry fly

2 Trout

I caught beautiful trout with dry fly when start hatching on river.

1 Trout

Beautiful beat. Teeming with fry, but unfortunately hardly any trout seen. Saw one rise and lost a fish to a nymph in one of the deep pools.