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3 x "local" rods began fishing at 6.30pm for the evening session. River very high and difficult to find a swim. Managed to drop into some slack water on the long right hand bend before the Pylon swim. Managed 1 x Barbel must have been over 8lbs taken on pellet close in.
At around 8.30pm, 2 male swimmers went past in wet suits mid-stream being carried along on the flood. Been fishing for over 50 years and never seen that before!!!

1 Barbel

River high & coloured after recent storms. Tried dry & nymph but nothing showing.

River was up over 2m from the day before, but we were able to catch up to 6lb on swimfeeder and pellet in slacker spots. River had fallen by around 1.4m by the end of the day. No sign of any chub.

5 Barbel

2 Trout

Having block booked the Beat for two days we were very disappointed at the extremely limited access to the river due to the overgrown banks.

1 Barbel, 3 Chub

Did not fish due to heavy rain and gale force winds

In woods with storm on the way lots of trees coming down????

9 Barbel, 9 Chub

3 Trout

3 Trout

Bowled up at the lovely Whittern beat of the Arrow at about half seven, nice flow to it and very workable with the fresh water in the system at last! It's been a while since we've had a good bit of rain and this much needed rainfall over the last week on and off has livend up the Arrow a treat . . .

On to the fishing. Well as usual, I like to work a tiny Parachute dry and that's what I did for all the time I was there, alternating between a Para Adams and a Greenwells. Some lovely hard splashy takes this morning, especially between the two bridges.

Pocket water also producing some lovely little brownies this morning and even in the waders, water is nice and cold, spot on. Three crackers around the Titley bridge, one nearly leaping out it was so enthusiastic to grab the fly! The fresh water has certainly put a spring in the trout step. Aggressive hits on all the nine trout I brought to the net this morning. Four or five flumped strikes too. Was a lovely change and nice to be back on one of my local wild streams after having a ball for two sessions up at Craig Goch reservoir and one super morning at Claerwen, tweaking wets back in the wave with some lovely slamming hits by the Elan brownies.

A really fun three hours sport. Fish this morning ranging from six to eleven inches and as always, the gorgeous Arrow colouration, spot on. Back here soon, possibly after this gruesome storm has gone tommorrow, back home, some outdoor jobs before a visit to the dentist . . . . Joyous . . . . L.o.l !!!!

9 Trout