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Lovely river, clearly well managed. I'm first time passport user and inexperienced river angler so had a couple of bumps but nothing caught and very little seen despite pretty steady hatches including sporadic mayfly-type insects. Access not easy in upper part of beat but it's nice to have that jungle feel for at least part of what is a long stretch of water. Lack of rain recently so river clear and probably below average water depth yet all but a coupe of pools were wadeable.

A fantastic days sport. Every pool producing some sort of action, whether they made it into the net was a different matter! Huge midge hatches above the water and some olives coming down too.
Fished the duo for most of the day and took fish on both flies. Decent average size to today’s fish and I lost two brutes when twitching small fry streamers into the deep holes.
This beat really needs a selective few branches clearing to make more of the water fishable. A few occasions a single branch prevented a pool being fished! I snapped the ones that I could.

A very wild beat, but a fun one at that.

10 Trout

1 Trout

Fished from 10 till 1 with the river already quite low.
Fished duo as no fish seen rising although plenty of fly life around including a few mayfly.
4 Trout on a small bead head nymph between 4 and 8 inches.

4 Trout

Only a brief visit. Waters levels quite low according to the local farmer. Mayfly hatching but very little activity ) and no interest in my hares tail fly but a lovely stretch of water to return to.

No fishing done due to the presence of a herd of 50 or so bulls who followed us up river

No fishing done as too many bulls also taking an interest in our activities

1 Trout, 1 Grayling

First time out since Lockdown and what a gorgeous spring day to be on the river, so good to be back fishing again. Two of us fished, a pain having to travel in two cars due to social distancing but there is ample parking. After a walk across the fields the river looked perfect, plenty of fly life, the odd Mayfly and lots of Caddis among the usual olives. Both of us were a bit rusty after the lay off but we both managed a fish each on drys with plenty of action from lightening fast small trout which were either missed or came off, never mind, a great day on the river on a lovely bit of water. Just be careful of the barbed wire.

2 Trout

Second visit to the pool Great to be out fishing after lockdown Two roach caught
Beautiful lake in a really nice setting Lots of big carp seen I had them feeding off the top with dog biscuits but they were to clever for me
If only this lake was well stocked But it’s got some big carp to try and catch if you can I would think many not even caught

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