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A tough but rewarding afternoon on the Eyton beat. More than half the fish were 3/4-1lb, stuffed bellies and plenty of Mayfly about as well as plenty of caddis and different olives, the top end of the beat is very overgrown, not unfishable but well in need of a little pruning with a chainsaw!!
Another great day out, thanks to the W and U, and the beat owners.

11 Trout, 2 Grayling

14lbs cock salmon for Cecelia White caught on small tube fly from Cafn after titanic struggle. Safely returned.

1 Salmon

V fresh 13lb hen fish for Robin Stewart on a Shrimp tube fly.

1 Salmon

3 Trout

Evening ticket Met the same poacher as last week. Same time same spot. Reported him to the NRW for what it’s worth. This time he had two light coloured dogs with him. Whippet / lurchers. He obviously likes the beat. Must be local.

4 Trout

In between heavy showers and thunderstorm fish were rising to mayfly.

12 Trout

Having other commitments in the afternoon, I was only able to fish 0800-1030, so had to push through quite quickly. This is a very tricky beat requiring some tight casting, my 6'6" rod still felt too long in places. I left a lot of pools unfished, particularly the upper half which is particularly enclosed by vegetation, but think I could have covered more with more time available.
Those that I did fish were full of trout, with almost every section where I could lay a fly resulting in a splashy rise or pull on the nymph. 6 stuck long enough to come to hand, biggest about 7" and the rest about 4"-5"

6 Trout

River up and slightly coloured and mixed weather throughout the day, eventually driving me off the water with heavy rain early evening. Mayfly were about in small numbers, but floating down unmolested by the trout. I also spotted coch-y-bonndu beetles, plenty of olive duns and spinners and the odd yellow may dun. Nymphs produced no response and little was rising and it was only when I changed from a size 14 Adams to a size 18 olive that larger fish hit the fly with some confidence. Lack of river fishing so far this year meant three promising fish only stayed on the hook briefly. Best fish at 11 inches. This is my second visit to a really beautiful beat with its own secluded magic, favourite place on the Arrow so far.

4 Trout

Fished from 9.30 till 6pm. Fished the lower riffles and glides with rusty klinkhammer and PTN. Wet with some respit in rhe morning. Chucked it down for an hour or 2 from 2 til 4 but didnt deter the fish. A good number of surface activity. Caught 6 WBT from 12” to 18”. All took the klinkhammer rather than PTN. Great day despite getting very wet.

6 Trout

Fished from just after 3 p.m. until 10 p.m. River in good condition and mayfly were hatching sporadically. Some good fish moving but raining on and off and hatch never really got going. Had one or two offers on a Tups and mayfly patterns but failed to connect apart from one small brown of about 8 inches.
Also tried various nymphs but to no avail. First time fishing the beat but would certainly like another go!

1 Trout