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No fish. 4 hours. 3pm - 7pm. bright, warm, very little breeze. flat calm at times.

This was my first try on this beat for three or four years and I'd forgotten what a wonderful stretch of river Titley is.

Arriving at around 10am there was still quite a push of water coming down the Arrow, carrying its greyish tinge. In the first pool above the bridge a small trout slashed at a klinkhammer. A larger one then took and let go of the goldhead a cast later in roughly the same spot. A few yards upstream came the first of my two fish of the day on nymph. Both were typically beautiful 9 inch Arrow trout: colourful and healthily plump.

There were a few medium sized upwings in the air and one or two sedge but I didn't see a rise all day. The riverbed is carpeted with caddis though. Lifting the stones reveals an enormous number of other invertebrates - a welcome sign of the Arrow's water quality.

By the time I'd reached the weir it was a blazing hot afternoon so I didn't bother trying below the bridge, even though I've had some good fish from that section. After an Easter weekend of high temperatures, it felt to me as though the Arrow was still to fully awaken from the otherwise cold spring. I'm sure things will be different in a week or two's time.

2 Trout

3 Trout

1 Trout

Dry, sunny, warm, and calm. Low clear water levels. Difficult terrain on upper beat – to say the least. Through-out the day there were two distinct olive hatches. Upper part of beat observed no rising fish - through-out the day. Change tactics and patterns with no success.

2 oos grayling caught in 5 hours both well over a pound.
No trout to be seen!

2 Grayling

Evening fish, 5.00pm - 8.00. Bright sunshine with slight breeze, fished the far bank in the deeper slower moving water. No hatch and nothing rising so fished #14 black spider and bibio sub surface, but no interest. Saw one fish head & tail, but that was it! Beautiful beat, unfortunately not the right time to fish it that day!

First time on this beat but with the weather being so hot knew it would be difficult. Fished the lower beat and found parking and directions easy. Was amazed to see how clear the water was and could have been on a chalk stream. Access is not that difficult but wading is a must. Fly life was having a field day but the fish stayed away. No takes but will return later this year.

Very nice beat and superb information from owner, will be back.