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This is a really lovely beat with a good variety of water. The new owner was generous with his time talking about how the river was doing and where he has improved the access since I was last here a few years ago.
The glide at the bottom is very easy to wade and you can access the whole length of the beat. The island is trickier in places - you can get to it easily but fishing the main channel on the other side needs some roll casting and decent control as you can't always wade that far out from the foliage.

Fishing from just after noon until almost 7pm there was abundant insect life. There were fish rising all day in a slightly desultory manner and I spent most of the day slowly approaching each one only for the activity to stop as soon as I covered them; a mixture of clumsy casting and the wrong fly, I'm sure. Interestingly, I saw a reasonable number of large pale yellow upwings on the surface that were never taken so I assume everything was just sub surface. There was a frenetic 10 minutes around 2pm when the water was boiling, I had no idea what was hatching and got myself thoroughly tangled up in the excitement of trying three different flies.
After many changes I finally happened upon the right fly: a green-yellow quill body with CDC wings tempted a lovely fish of 11" at the very top end of the beat around half past five. Taking it back to the flats I had a few swirls and misses before a very strong 13" fish opposite the croy.

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Great spot to fish unfortunately got rained off. Lots of small trout rising in the corners just before the rain. Fished with nymphs and a couple of dries but no takes. Beautiful spot to fish but can be difficult in tight parts with the trees and brush.

We caught a salmon, it was about 7lb, caught on a 11ft #7 fly rod with 35lb running line skagit head (450 grain) T10 10” flo tip 12lb leader and most importantly a wille gunn double gold fly (size 8 hook)

Great place to fish i would definitely recommend it.!

Fishing Passport Note 6th May 2026 : The angler has since confirmed that no salmon were caught. Only the Shad.
Please remember that it is illegal for anglers to target them deliberately, although catching shad when salmon or trout fishing is often unavoidable. If you do find yourself connected to one, please don't overplay them, resist any temptation to lift them out of the water and release them as soon as you can.

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Bright and sunny until 2pm, when persistent rain settled in. Good surface activity, particularly late morning through to 2pm. A couple missed chances on MB, no fish landed on the dry. Managed three brownies on weighted HE.

Beat in excellent condition; a lovely day to be on the water.

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Steady trickle of hatches throughout the day but very little sign of surface activity. Hard work but 4 trout to nymphs. Lovely spot.

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