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bright sunny day but a cold east wind. good hatch early afternoon so a short period of exciting dry fly action.

4 Trout, 1 Grayling

Haven't ever tried Chanstone Court beat , so gave it a go this morning . Cool start , six degrees , overcast and still , nice weather to be out , bimbled down passed the bridge , to the side of the oil seed rape field , and strewth talk about bad access , very few places to get in , and out !!!!!!!

The Abbey Dore beat is much more user friendly to be honest . I'm agile but this was a crazy beat . As lots of tight barbed wire every were , bit of a nightmare , anyway after the winge , onto the fishing !!

Nothing showing on top , still a tad early , so single tungsten size 18 olive nymph , took a while before any action , then wallop , confident take , and boy did he go !!! About ten inches , cracking condition , quickly released , good start . . . . . . . .

No more tackers for a while , then another deep pool , head of it , another good take , fish of about twelve inches , great colouration , and a nice run around on the two weight rod ! Slipped back in , happy days . . . . A pleasant few hours , a bit frustrating with the access , surely a few styles can be placed here and there for getting in and out of the stream ???? I guess we're spoilt , as there's plenty of streams all round herefordshire and the borders , so we can afford to be picky , ha ha ha !!!!

Will give this one another go from my usual Arrow , Lugg and Pinsley beats , it's still very pleasant , although I think Abbey Dore pips it hands down , nice chilled out three hours , two lovely Dore brownies caught and released . Another day off tomorrow, where too , mmmmmm I wonder !!!!!!! May be Bugeilyn or Talybont for a change ! After all variety is the spice of life !

2 Trout

Two lovely trout caught and released , report submitted below , few pics of three pleasant hours on the Dore , happy days , back soooooooooon . . . . . . . .

2 Trout

Not a sausage. Plenty of grannom coming off but did not see a single fish anywhere.

Heavily built slightly coloured 22lb+ cock fish from the Iron Gate catch at the bottom of the beat. It took a 1" black and yellow tube on a fast sinking sink tip. Took solidly on the inside of the gutter and a great 1st run, taking over 100 yards of line. Almost made it to the abstraction works!

1 Salmon

Two fish in 5hrs fishing. Overcast and chilly easterly. Small buzzer hatch late in the afternoon but no fish rising.

2 Trout

2 Trout

Water perfect height, slightly tinged and 10 degrees c, with overcast sky.. However nothing caught; really pleasant afternoon none the less!

bit slow but not a bad day fishing bottom on worm no takes on wet fly and did not see any sign of surface activity .

9 Trout

Lovely well maintained beat by Glynn the ghillie. Lovely colour and height for the fly just above the mucky Lugg probably limiting things downstream today, seemed a good bet for one stopping off in the clearer water of the lovely Poachers pool! Fish seen early on and possibly one last thing but nothing took hold today. Oxford run fishing beautifully and the lie just off the little croy 70m down has had 3 so far - contrates the mind when nearing that and there's a ghillie to tell you this! Great spot all really well looked after so you can get at it. Ghillie, hut, (tea!) couple of cracking lies to fly fish easily for a good chance at a fish of a lifetime on fly. £25 plus booking fee, £10 tip, got to be good value compared with other beats which are not similarly "policed" or maintained. 1 respectful canoe kindly passing near side as requested.
Great days fishing and thank you all.

1 Other