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This was my first time on the beautiful Bideford Brook and I had four hours of fascinating fishing. The water was fairly clear and, I would judge at normal levels. There were a few Mayfly about but not very much surface activity.
A black Klinkhammer brought two small brownies but a change to an Adams Parachute yielded four in fairly quick succession. All six between 5-9 inches. All returned.
If you enter the river down the bank by the stile (ill half way up the beat watch out for the well camouflaged barbed wire in the bank that could trip you or rip your waders.

6 Trout

River clarity about 18inches and quite brown, a mixture of fly and spin due to the conditions. We saw only 2 salmon all day and both of those were in the Vanstone pool and nothing else moved in any of the other pools upstream.
2 Shad caught.

2 Other

Method: Float / worm. Other fish caught & returned alive: Perch & Roach

1 Trout, 5 Other

Challenging during the day - hot and bright. A couple of 6 inchers caught in the riffles. I had high hopes for the evening, following the previous evening at Fenni Fach but by 10 pm there was a curious lack of a rise and the hatch was thin compared to 24 hours previously. One 9 incher caught. A nice, but short, beat.

3 Trout

1 Trout

1 Trout

Another hot sunny day and another blank. I fished the morning but only saw a couple of rises. Got hot, fed up and left by noon. Couldn't tempt the fish with anything.

1 x trout 14 inches, Parachute Adams. I was taken aback when I saw the river this morning, as it was really thick brown - only about 10 inches visibility. Where does it come from, as there has not been rain in the catchment for quite a few days? A couple of days ago, higher up, there was also a brown stain in the water and of course a little colour can help the fishing, but not when it is as strong as this. I managed to find just the one fish nice which I saw rise on the shallows - and got it - but otherwise no activity at all. No fly and no rises, just brown water. I'm wondering if there is an algal problem, as sometimes with the main Wye? I left at lunchtime.

1 Trout

6 Trout