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Was a Nice day once the yobs over the other side disappeared with their loud car music and horn music, but a bit warm but had some good bite’s .
4 Trout & 1 perch returned safely .

4 Trout, 1 Other

1Trout & 1 perch returned safely

1 Trout, 1 Other

Fished from 8 -3. Spent the morning at Hergest, river is low with slimy green weed, needs a wash through. Unfortunately most of the deeper pools have suffered from last winters torrents with trees down blocking casts nevertheless took 5 trout between 8” and 10” and a few fingerlings. I fished duo using a #14 olive para Klink as the indicator and tiny gold bead hares ear nymphs on the bottom. All of the fish took the Klink so continued with just the dry.

By 12.30 I had covered the whole beat and decided to head home via the Clettwr which although on my doorstep I’ve not fished for several years. What a difference in water quality! Clear and a good depth. Spent three hours of climbing taking 4 trout between 9” and 10” all to the same olive klink.

To aid anyone who plans to fish this beautiful but challenging beat I should point out that the white painted marker posts which used to lead to the beat start are no longer there. There are two paths take the lower and be prepared to scramble down to the stream when it feels possible but take care. This path becomes almost impassable after a while. When returning to your car there is a path from the footbridge , counterintuitively take the left fork and the path climbs back around and is clear of fallen trees. Great stream full of fish!

9 Trout

First time here and it was a lovely beat, no salmon seen. I was told by two anglers fishing the opposite bank that from the bottom of tail pool right down to the end of the beat was reserved for them, the “cider mill” beat they said. As it was my first time here I said ok but is this correct?
Fishing Passport Note : Absolutely correct, the opposite bank from the bottom of the tail pool is the Cider Mill beat.

6 Trout

Fly fishing hot and sunny

4 Trout

After the last visit I was prepared for the jungle. Fished Nymphs and then moved on to Klink n Dink. All fish bar 1 taken on Nymphs, 4 of which on the dink.
This beat is hard going, even on the bits with no trees fallen across the river as you have to get in and out due to the depth of many pools. The Balsam was 10ft tall in places and got stung to death by the 6ft nettles. The land owner has cut the grass around the top couple of fields but much work is needed to improve the access, the beat has some great potential.
Saw a beaty of about 2lb but I lined her on second attempt at covering her and she dropped in to the deep pool.

A nice grayling of about 10oz on a pink tag. All in all a very tiring day.

11 Trout, 1 Grayling

Only fished a couple of hours between 9 and 11. The river was as low as I have seen it and the trout were very spooky. 2 small trout on Tenkara both below the bridge.

2 Trout

Hard fishing, the weather was not ideal the sun shining very brightly both chub caught using meat

2 Chub

Caught all perch, fished for 10 hours and had 1 trout take but my daughter lost it.
People everywhere with dogs, people and dogs swimming in the water and a very large group blasting music across the res, will not visit again

7 Other