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This was my first non wild stream booking with WUF, and as novice I felt this beat was a little beyond my knowledge! Fished from 5pm to 9:30, warm sunny evening with little wind, a large fly hatch at about 8pm
Water looked a little coloured, but still good visibility. Tried streamer and indicator nymph in the larger pools but no takers. Had the grayling in fast water on the nymph, the chub and the trout took a black kinkhammer.
Missed lots on the dry and lost a good fish that took the dry as I stripped it in for re-cast, wasn't expecting a take so didn't set the hook! Overall found the beat hard and got stung so many times trying to get to the river.
Will probably return to this beat in grayling season when the nettles have died off.

1 Trout, 1 Grayling, 1 Chub

Fished for about 3 1/2 hours on a mild sunny day. Not many flies about apart from gnats and only two fish seen rising. 9 trout caught, 6 on a beaded nymph and 3 on dry flies.
Fallen trees made access difficult on parts of the beat and the vegetation/overhanging branches made casting tricky as well.

9 Trout

A fine, at times very sunny day at Chainbridge with the river running clear at 0.59. No fish caught unfortunately. A 15 pounder jumped at the Chines at about 4pm but apart from thatthere was no sign of a fish. I tried the trout rod too but there was a curious lack of a hatch. A trickle of YMDs, Olives and the occasional mayfly came off but nothing substantial and not enough to trigger any serious rises. A good day to be on the river though and a very useful casting lesson from Chris Price too.

This is the catch of my life a 30 lb cock Salmon that I fought for 40 minutes caught on the fly.

Disappointment of the morning was the pollution wast foaming on the banks of the river that came down stream from the Town Sewers.

1 Salmon

Beautiful sunny evening. No fish seen, none caught. Most of the lower beat below the ford inaccessible due to fencing and overgrowth. One heron. Mayfly still active.

Lovely day but no sign of taking salmon

Lovely stretch of water, worked all the water and only one small 8 inch trout on a nymph. Didn't have a full day to experience the evening rise but a lovely day in a beautiful part of the country. Thanks.

1 Trout

A lovely and long day of fishing on a dry, sunny and calm day, using up WUF vouchers given to me as a birthday present. (A very welcome gift). There were surprisingly few rises throughout the beat and not the number of Mayfly reported by anglers only two day's earlier. Most fish were caught either right at the very edge of the water after hearing a noisy sip or a light splash, or by prospecting in likely runs. I did better in the first half of my fishing day than late afternoon or evening. All fish were caught on CDC dry flies - anything light and fluffy stood a chance, but, although the flies turned over well, I had no luck with full size Mayflies, so changed to smaller flies and a lighter leader and tippet on my 3wt 8ft 6ins rod. I waded up almost all of the beat only finding it too deep in three places, so I certainly had my monies worth when I had finished after 9pm. Two of the fish were absolute crackers. I have fished here before, Summer and Winter, and it is a a pleasure to do so.

8 Trout

A good days fishing,water still a bit coloured with about 2ft visibility. No salmon but 8 Shad on spinner and fly. Fish showing in the Vanstone and Dog hole kept us working hard all day. Will be back soon.

8 Other

The fishing is terrible. Too many poachers are there after 8pm when the bailiffs have gone home and us who pay are losing interest in going.

1 Trout