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On day two of a 3 day trip I headed up into Hereford and borders to fish Arrow Titley and Lugg Litton beats. Arrow Titley fished in the morning is very remote. The beat is split into two by the foot bridge where you park. The bottom has some fast running pools above the railway bridge which gave up a couple of feisty 10" fish. Above the beat I stalked a methodically rising fish very carefully in a slow running pool - he was the third fish of the morning and a cracker at 14" and gave a good account of himself.
I decided to transfer to Lugg Litton for the afternoon as Titley became very slow running in open fields. Lugg Litton was very difficult to fish. Very low and gin clear water and very overgrown in patches. It was stuffed with trout and I spooked fish with every step. I only caught one small fish but the beat will be fantastic challenge with a little more water in it.
RE: Parking - it does feel like you are intruding into the house garden/drive of Lower Litton. I knocked on the door to check and a very pleasant occupant confirmed I was in the right place. Park on the grass just on the right hand side as you enter the drive.

3 Trout

Fished from 8-11am. Stream running clear with some of the pools almost still. A beautiful stream with multiple pools and riffles. Fishing was challenging with a seeming lower fish density than in other wild stream beats.
Two sizeable trout were spotted, one tucked up very nicely in a fallen tree the other I spooked from the tail end of one of the faster pools. The trout caught were all about the 8 in mark. 3 to a GRHE and 3 to a PTN. The 3 to the GRHE all came from one pool. Two salmon par also came to hand.
Presenting the nymphs in the slower water was tricky. I would imagine this beat would fish much better later in the day when the trout are looking up more or during a hatch as many areas are well suited to the dry.

6 Trout, 2 Other

I am pleased to report that this is probably the best beat I have fished on the Passport scheme. Access is good, though the short part below the footbridge is a bit overgrown. A very nice river, though on the day I was there there did not seem to be much fly life about. I hooked 3 on the dry fly, lost one, broken by one and landed a nice little trout about 8". A nice day on a pleasant river.

1 Trout

All fish are up to 5 inches.

4 Trout, 1 Other

Very quiet evening after a hot still day. Pleasant to be out but only one small trout to a brown klink.

1 Trout

Access to the bottom stretch very overgrown and difficult. Water very low. No fly life seen during afternoon.
No fish seen or caught.

Fished the evening from 7pm and a few fish started to rise at about 8pm. 5 WBT 7-11 inches, the first 3 on a sedge pattern and 2 in the fading light on a Mayfly. Missed quit a few along the way. Beautiful still evening with a full moon rising later on. Picture perfect stretch of river.

5 Trout

Lovely stretch of river, water very clear. A little low, lovely weather, lively insect life on the river, moderate mayfly hatches - regrettably only one rise seen in 4 hrs and nothing caught on dries or wets.

Fished from 11am to 4:30pm on a warm, sunny and cloudy day. River running low and clear with few flies about and only two small fish seen rising.
I had an unexpectedly great days fishing catching 19 trout and losing about ten more. Most of the fish were about 5-8 inches with a few bigger ones, including one of around 12 inches. All were caught fishing upstream on a long French nymphing leader with two tungsten beaded PT/HE nymphs. Most of the fish came from deep water with a good flow.
Note: if you cross the small footbridge and turn right, watch out for a 6 inch high strip of barbed wire across the path that goes through the undergrowth. It's about 25 yards from the bridge and seems to be part of an old collapsed fence.

19 Trout

Lovlely valley, great place, river clear. Warm, dry day but very windy. Dry fly seemed to be the order of the day. Nothing rising small amount of fly life each run and hole look very fishy. Eventually caught on duo set up. Saw kingfishers and dippers. Total - 3 brown trout to 5 inches.

3 Trout