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Bit too warm for the beat to produce its best,great to see how the pools are situated.
Loads of shad about.
nest time will be good.

1 Other

Spent most of the day using a dry dropper set up. Caught a number of the fish in a pool upstream from the pontwalby bridge.

8 Trout

2 Trout

Fished for 3 hours mostly down stream of the bridge. Conditions were warm, lots of midge type flies, a few occasional May flies. No fish were rising. Tried dry Tups no joy and then small red nymph which had two takes for small fish both of which slipped the hook. A shame this beat does not do half day permits. Last time I fished up stream of the bridge and had a record day. It seems to be a bit pricey to me

One small brownie on a PTN. Fished from 8am - 12:30. Saw very little activity. The river was in good condition so likely more down to my skill.

Lovely little beat. Will be back.

1 Trout

1 Trout

Gin clear, low and hot.

Great days fishing .20 fish caught mostly on nymphs with a few on dry flys.The road by gate has large pot holes which makes it difficult to get up the hill.

20 Trout

Fished the evening rise. Remarkable evening to be on the river - danica, olives and caddis everywhere!
Managed a few fish, including a sea trout that was regularly rising.
Needs a touch of rain, but a beautiful beat.

4 Trout, 1 Sea Trout, 2 Grayling

Much more than great to get back here, a favourite stream of mine. Fished the upper part of this beat mostly right to top boundary as there's so many good runs, literally one after the other. The usual battle actually getting in to the river (been a good growing year it seems) but once in then its pretty much wadeable all the way up and a fab place to be on a bright hot day. Lots of shade in the river! The usual keeping low and going along very slow, it really can pay here.

Fairly quiet on top though today , just a few mayfly and odds n sods coming off and fish not really reacting that much to the speculative casts which was unusual and the fish seemed to be much more interested in a chunky black foam beetle than any mayfly pattern today. Water looked really great, good level, clear and cool and the bed very clean indeed and the usual thousands upon thousands of the micro caddis homes on the stones.

So , it was just the two this afternoon, quite good fish though for here at 10" & 12" and in really superb condition and really strong too. Happy with that! Emerged out of the river in the evening and the meadows where full of various olive spinner doing their thing backlit by the sinking sun. Had to leave though for the long journey back home.
All just fabulous and can't wait to get back.

There's quite a few less obstructions in/over the river up there now btw as I pulled them out whilst working up.

2 Trout