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Good wild trout beat hampered with the river and weather conditions.

4 Trout

A short trip to the brook on Sunday midday for a couple of hours. Bright and a bit breezy. There was a small amount of movement but no real feeding activity on the surface despite some midge/insect activity. The river level was good and clear. Whilst no fish were caught it was a lovely afternoon enhanced by a kingfisher.

The river was very low and although I fished through to 9.15 pm there were few rises. It's a big river for trout fishing with long and slow pools (not ideal but look good for salmon) with some nice gravel runs and narrow channels between rocks. Caught small trout on klinkhammer and hares ear gold head although they hardly bent my rod.
Best stretches appear to be near pools either side of the fishing hut.

6 Trout

Lots of Salmon showing, but the water had a dirty colour that put them off. Mick the Ghillie was a great help and put me on fish, but they just were not interested. A mid morning raft race with about 20 rafts. That made more noise than 1000 speed boats, did not help the salmon fishing. They just rowed straight down the middle of the river at pace nearly mowing me down. Stupid, ignorant and dangerous.

1 Chub

Caught 2 and lost one all spinning with a small gold mepps

2 Trout

Hi water was coloured with no sign of fish, heavy rain falling caused river to rapidly increase in depth and cloudiness. 5-6 dead sheep in and along river bank, smelling bad. Altogether not ideal. one bit all day. Map not accurate. regards Neil

Very difficult to access this beat (fences, low-hanging branches etc) not least because the water was high after recent rain. Gave in after two hours and left it for hardier anglers than myself!

Water coloured and we fished at lunchtime, so conditions probably too hot. Beautiful beat though and some extremely fishy pools

A couple of fish seen infrequently rising in 2 of the few spots that were accessible but no rises to the fly - one pull on a nymph was all we could manage between us.
As previous reports suggest the top half of the beat is largely unfishable due to overhanging trees along most of the beat, steep banks and barbed wire fences making access in/out the river difficult when necessary due to several blockages across the whole stream. A nice looking beat but with such limited access somewhat frustrating.

Tough day on a high and coloured river -1.38m on the env agency website. Fished near the parking in the middle of the stretch and the bottom of the stretch. Anywhere with slightly deeper water on your bank was worth a look for chub. We caught 6 really good ones on meat - most were over 5lb with the biggest nearer to 6.
Highlight of the day for me was observing an otter at close quarters - about 15feet.
Lovely beat but top swims in the woods were not identifiable in the high water so we did not try them.

6 Chub