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Bumped into BP from Pembridge who had just finished fishing the lower end of the beat, so I tried from the bridge parking at the top end fishing downstream wets & nymphs. Had 6 small trout & 1 decent grayling about 1.5lb just before the 'No Fishing' section.

6 Trout, 1 Grayling, 1 Other

River level perfect after rain midweek showing around 0.25m on the gauge. Still carrying a nice bit of colour and a good flow I fished French leader with 2 weighted Nymphs.
Had 30+ Trout mainly about 6 inches with the best 2 around 12 inches. I had to finish around 2 so I only managed the first 2 fields up to the last house on the road. A few small up wings hatching as I left and 1 or 2 fish rising to them.

30 Trout, 1 Grayling

Water going with a good pace but terribly coloured up. fished duo tungsten with a 3mm gold beaded Baetis with a hint of orange at the thorax and a pink bead on dropper. I did not think the pink beaded flies would be out till December but with the water the way it was it was the only bead in my box that I could see 6 inches under the surface.. and most trout and both grayling took the pink beaded Baetis on dropper. this beat to me is a cracker , there are some decent fish within this beat. it,s just finding them!! . trout ranged from 6-14 inches and both grayling 10 inches. I hooked a few a fair bit bigger but once in the fast water all managed to slip hook.

14 Trout, 2 Grayling

Fished from 9-1.30.....water level the lowest I've seen on this beat and quite coloured. Sparse and varied hatches either side of an hour of heavy rain. A treat to see several Blue Damselflies, electric blue against the fresh green of the banks.All fish came to size 16 para Adams,Greenwells and Tupps, however it was only the juveniles that were rising and the biggest fish was a meagre 8". Searched with nymphs for the parents but to no avail.

12 Trout

Fished for about 2 hours in the late afternoon, a few fish rising, mainly small

1 Trout

Very little hatching and no rises. Had to stick to nymphs. Best trout at 14" and two of the Grayling were 17".

15 Trout, 3 Grayling

Great day on the Ithon, 15 trout from 4 - 10 inches and one salmon par. Seven of the trout were in the 8-10 bracket. Started on Nymph and had one small one, then saw some smaller fish rising, as I'm a beginner I took the chance to practice a little upstream dry and was rewarded with some more smaller fish. This gave me confidence to then fish the rest of the day on dry experimenting with various Klinkhammer patterns.
There were very few fish rising but this didn't stop the trout taking anything I put in front of them, missed lots and lost a few.
Fantastic day, thanks again WUF

15 Trout, 1 Other

Fished mid-beat for a couple of hours am. Water low. 3 small trout on nymph. Lost a good os grayling. Mayfly about but not much rising. Lovely beat.

3 Trout

My first time to this beat and it was a pleasant change not to have to duck under the branches or negotiate barbed wire to get to it. Casting was very easy too. The trout were rising quite well to hawthorn flies and even took my imitation despite the fact that this had long since lost the trailing legs to bankside vegetation on another beat. The beat does need more water though and a good wash-through. I can't help thinking that anything much larger than 6 inches here will be picked off by avian predators, as there is not a lot of cover.

4 Trout

Fished from 11.30am to 5pm nice sunny day, occasional rises to small flies. Started off with a dry. Rewarded with a big grayling of 15" and trout to 10". Later changed to duo and caught on both. Great day!

5 Trout, 2 Grayling