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Fished from 7:30-11:30 on what was a very hot day reaching 28c later. A good fly hatch up to about 10:30 including, to my surprise, some mayfly. Very little surface activity. Water levels higher than I’d expected and the water a little coloured.
Caught and returned two very fine wild brown trout of 10” and 12” respectively. Two of the finest fish I’ve taken in a longtime. Both taken on a size 18 gold head ptn suspended under a klink. Sight fishing to a rising fish not an option.
The beat is quite wild and the access and wading a bit challenging for at least some of us on the wrong side of 60. Nevertheless, wonderful value for money.

2 Trout

Only fished for a couple of hours in morning but excellent
Eleven fish all to rolling meat in fast water biggest was 4 lb but all roughly 3 lb to 4 lb range

11 Chub

Very little optimism on arrival, we've fished this beat a few times and have never seen it so low, however this proved useful for spotting features for future reference.
After considerable exploration with no sign of fish, apart from a couple of Chublets, we eventually found a likely looking spot and fed it a bit.
First 3 runs through produced 3 decent Barbel and we soon had both Barbel and Chub lined up.
All fish caught on Stick float with pellets as bait.

13 Barbel, 10 Chub

spinning I was fishing was no catch

Evening fishing, Many fish surfacing with may fly rising too. I had only one take and a few knocks but unfortunately no catches made.

2 Trout

No fish

6 Trout

After a long wait we finally managed to book onto this beat. Great beat but with limited swims, which may have been due to exceptionally low river level. Blistering sum and 30 degrees made fishing uncomfortable, but at least sun was on our backs.
Having walked the beat, we were pleased to see the other angler fishing last peg on the island, and he informed us we were on the island as we wouldn't have known as water dried up between island and main bank. He was bagging up on chub on floaty which was promising. As other reports have mentioned the path at the far bank is tricky, and we struggled even without our kit.
We fished the deeper water nearer the end 10.30-17.30 but really struggled, only managing to winkle out one 3+lb chub on meat. Hopefully next time it will not be quite as warm.

1 Chub

Far too low and hot so only fish for a very short time.

1 Chub