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Parked at the lower car park and fished the lower half of the beat only. Bank erosion means that the only way to progress upstream requires wading across the river. We were able to do this (Abernant gauge 0.47m) but higher levels might make this very challenging. One lovely grayling 15" and a smaller brown trout, both caught on dry fly in the middle of the day.

1 Trout, 1 Grayling

A lovely day on beat 4 plenty of knocks but nothing really developed. Switched from meat to 8mm pellet, smaller hook and lighter line and bang…..a 12lb+ barbel came to the net followed by a 6lb chub (a PB!) and a little latter a 5lb+ chub ……all fish in perfect condition.

1 Barbel, 2 Chub

1 Trout

Fishing quite slow during the morning probably not helped by the overnight frost, no sign of fish showing all day. Dozens of pheasants though, obviously recently have been released waiting to be shot although they have no idea what's in store.

3 Barbel, 1 Chub

Our first time on this lovely beat and we will return. On a cold and frosty start to the day we walked the beat and found plenty of swims to choose from and decided on a couple 100 yards downstream of the hut. Glynn the gillie came along an hour or so after we had started fishing and informed us that these were probably not the most productive pegs at this time of year but we stuck it out and although no Barbel we managed 12 chub between us, the smallest around 3lb with the majority 4lb and above. We were kept company all day by two Kingfishers darting up and down all day, egrets, kites and buzzards. We were given advice by a friendly walker / angler on where to fish this beat next time so will take this on board.

12 Chub

Couple of Chub and some silvers on the float. No Barbel. Nice venue but too many areas inaccessible.
have booking for tomorrow but will forego to fish somewhere else as .
Access to the fishery not recommended for any one with physical problems due to very steep climb back out.

4 Chub, 6 Other

Water level was a lot lower (0.25 at Byton) than the last time I was here when it was really pushing through. This time the pools and riffles were more clearly defined. Started at the bridge moving upstream and after a while came across a pool with some grayling feeding happily at the surface. Managed to catch one of them on a Griffiths gnat and spent another hour or so being given the run around by the others. Tried some other spots and had some interest shown in the fly but no takes. Enjoyable day.

1 Grayling

Fished here a couple of years ago, but I see now that there is an extra section at the bottom end. Keen to check this out I made the long walk walk from the top end parking spot, access a little difficult but did fish the house pool. Good job I did because this was the only spot I could find any grayling! Caught 2 and lost a couple ( one was big ). Fished along the whole length picked up the odd trout here and there and constantly attacked by the vegetation all day long!
Grayling to 16" and trout to 14".

9 Trout, 2 Grayling

2 Barbel, 8 Chub