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4 Trout

Was lovely giving the Abbey Dore beat a bash this morning , weather looked good , fourteen degrees overcast , slight breeze . . . When I turned up at quarter to nine , Perfect . Had an initial chat with the lady from Tan house Farm , then bimbled down to the beat start , water was low , with a slight cloudiness too it , however still pushing through the pools nicely , things looked good !!!!!

Tackled up with the trustee six foot two weight , and initially a small gold head PTN , had a savage take on second cast at the head of a lovely pool , cracking brownie , about twelve inches perhaps , a good start ! Second fish was a beautiful grayling , again on the PTN , in another of the deceptively deep pools on the River Dore , great fun perhaps eleven or twelve inches then slipped back in !!

Next two brownies were like peas in a pod , both about eight inches from the pools of the little river , great scrapers and quickly released . I did have another grayling of about ten inches , in superb condition , admired then released , sport was pretty varied and fun to say the least under the tight canopy of the Dore . . . There is a lot of trees down on this beat though , adds too it's charm I guess !!!

Working slowly up river , had another one more brownie on the PTN , then a bit of surface activity was evident , so on with the Parachute Adams , and had two confident rises to it , and two scrappy ten inch fish to the net , both released , Great fun !!!

Did have a lunker on for a few seconds , put up a lovely bend in the two weight rod , but alas he threw the hook , dooooooh !!!! Such is life !!!!! If your prepared for some catapult casting and scrambling , then the Dore beat is great fun . . Only short and it took me three hours , arriving at the old foot bridge at bang on midday .

Good fun , five brownies and two cracking grayling to the net , shall give this beat another bash very soon , when it's got a tad more flow to it , happy days !!!!!!!

5 Trout, 2 Grayling

8 x grayling 10-14 inches, 2 x trout 7 - 8 inches, a midday session ringing the changes with dry flies, Sturdy's Fancy, Red Tag, Grayling Steel Blue. Would like to see some more water in the river though.

2 Trout, 8 Grayling

Not even a nibble today

Day started overcast and fished well three chub all about four pound, although very sunny in the afternoon twobarbel and also a couple that were lost. Finished early as it had been a long drag down from London and needed dinner and a pint.

2 Barbel, 6 Chub

14 chub taken during morning session, all 4lb+. River low and clear.

14 Chub

lovely afternoons fishing. nice weather and gentle breeze, sadly no significant hatch. grayling from 8-14 inches trout all around 12 inches.

10 Trout, 10 Grayling

Lovely day for fishing, warm and cloudy but very little fish activity seen. Fished NZ style and rose three fish but saw only one other rise. Caught three decent fish 1/2 to 3/4 pound keeping one. Fish caught on either an Adams parachute or tungsten headed nymph. River very low but signs of it having been higher recently, ie wet weed on the bedrock.

3 Trout

3lb perch x 2. Possibly the same fish caught twice.

3 Barbel, 1 Chub, 2 Other