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A wonderful day on a beautiful river. Sadly, the chub were rather more active than the trout were in the morning, but we did have some success in the afternoon on beat 3.

Still, the highlight of the day was seeing two different salmon leaps, the first time I’ve ever seen a river run salmon! What a delight. I’m glad there’s enough water for them given the recent conditions and hopefully I’ll see them again some day.

3 Trout, 8 Chub

Some nice rises. No fish caught.

11 lbs and 10 lbs this am Friday Also 13 lbs Thursday. Evening All on small usk grub Good sprinkling of fish held up in this lower river beat water low but perfect fly colour.

3 Salmon

Blanked. Plenty of great habitats but many stretches inaccessible. Absolutely poured down most of the evening. So not a great day but hope to return sometime.

First time on this best , arrived and headed off in the field upstream, towards far end of field is a deep swamp managed to loose both wellies getting very cross and muddy. Finally extracted myself headed downstream to a likely spot and cheered up by catching a couple in quick succession. Things really improved when fishing pal Greg arrived with a fab lunch washed down with black water. Headed downstream further but very inaccessible overgrown and shallow came back to start and six more fish came to a ptn. Very few rising. Good day out but limited fishing spots certainly for 2 anglers.
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8 Trout

An excellent day on the Arrow at Titley. Not much rising but fish were taking nymphs below a dry fly, with larger nymphs fished through the deeper holes. I could have landed a few more fish except that I lost quite few for one reason or other. There were a couple of smaller fish but three of those landed were 12" or more, including the largest at 14" (see photo). This is a beautiful beat.

6 Trout

3 Grayling

Lovely couple of hours on the river. Overcast and breezy but plenty of fly life on the river. Didn’t see many trout, just a couple rising once, and couldn’t tempt either. However nice stretch of river and will be back to fish again.

A pretty piece of water and although conditions weren't ideal a pleasant day. Having said that the continuous barbed wire fences all along both banks of the beat made access extremely difficult, the occasional stiles helped but a large amount of the beat remained unfishable due to lack of access. At times I even had to resort to crawling under the barbed wire in order to access a potential piece of water.

2 Trout

1 Trout, 1 Grayling