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River up and slightly coloured and mixed weather throughout the day, eventually driving me off the water with heavy rain early evening. Mayfly were about in small numbers, but floating down unmolested by the trout. I also spotted coch-y-bonndu beetles, plenty of olive duns and spinners and the odd yellow may dun. Nymphs produced no response and little was rising and it was only when I changed from a size 14 Adams to a size 18 olive that larger fish hit the fly with some confidence. Lack of river fishing so far this year meant three promising fish only stayed on the hook briefly. Best fish at 11 inches. This is my second visit to a really beautiful beat with its own secluded magic, favourite place on the Arrow so far.

4 Trout

A light mayfly hatch allowed me to land one good sized Arrow brownie, and miss a few others

1 Trout

Arrived at about midday on a hot sunny day. My first visit to this beat. River in good condition but very little sign of surface activity. Many midges in evidence and quite a few mayfly so opted for a size 10 Wulff. This yielded a 7" Brownie but all went quiet in the afternoon and I had no success on the Wulff or a Klinkhammer. What a beautiful beat in every sense.

1 Trout

River in good condition, weather fine with upwing flies of all sizes including the odd mayfly. Very few fish rising. Four small trout to hares ears patterns.

4 Trout

Bright conditions with only one fish spotted rising during the three hours fishing. Fantastic habitat but out of all the Arrow beats this one seems to be trickiest to catch fish (from my experience in recent years)!

The river on this beat is in good order. Nothing rising so all four fish caught were taken on either a PTN or a hare's ear nymph suspended below a dry fly. The largest fish was 9 1/2" long. A number of other (probably larger) fish were hooked and lost, so the tally could have been greater had the angler been in better form.

4 Trout

First time on this beat, and conditions were very kind to us. Access to the water is good, but wading is required to get the best from some of the longer, more overgrown sections. A real mix of water. Fish were caught using weighted nymphs and all returned.

4 Trout

Caught 3 brown trout, 2 x 6" and 1 x12" approx all on a PTN, size 14.

3 Trout

Due to being short on time only managed to fish the lower part for a few hours. Spooked one fish. Clear conditions made it tricky. Nice bit of water but a bit overgrown at the bottom end.

Managed to spend the late afternoon on the river which looked in good nick. However, despite there being the occasional evidence of a light hatch there were no fish rising and although I tried just about every dry and nymph flies I had, I managed to tempt absolutely nothing. Lovely stretch of river though and I will be back to try again.