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Taught to take a walk of the full beat before setting up. At top of beat decided to set up and discovered my 4 piece rod was now 3. Several retrace of riverbank-fruitless! If anyone finds a rod-tip from a Sage 8'6" 3 1/2 oz copper coloured rod?
Upset, not deterred, I set up my 3 piece 'stick' with a team of PTN's, and in the tail end of several pools took 3 nice (average 1lb) trout. Raised a few more but setting the hook was problematic! Weather dry/warm with low water and little emerging with even fewer rises I'll be back! Sportsfish shop tomorrow for new rod.

3 Trout

Lots of flies, but no fish activity on the surface, except one at the upper end of the beat, lost 1 on a small Adams. Tried nymphs as well. Fished from 2pm- 4pm only.

Two 10 inch trout on nymphs. A few mayfly about but no fish rising.

2 Trout

One fish caught apprx 12" mayfly dry... One fooled and missed!!

1 Trout

Two 10 inch trout on nymphs. A few mayfly about but no fish rising.

2 Trout

Very overgrown, poor access, numerous rises but missed all.
Good head of fish present. However online booking very easy and a big improvement on old voucher system.

Great couple of hours on this delightful little stream. Lots of trout about. Caught 3 TTs (tiny tiddlers) and one of about 8 inches all on a black emerger type thing (like a klink/hawthorn/Parachute hybrid).

4 Trout

A great day on a lovely beat, countless misses and a few lost on barbless. Eight to hand, nothing over 10 inches but all good fun on light gear. All taken off the top with Blonde Wulf between 13.00 and 18.30 during constant hatches of everything. Marvellous!

8 Trout

I spent a quiet evening exploring the top end of the Cannop Brook close to the weir. Fish were rising to mayflies. Three trout to hand largest at 9 inches, one on kites imperial, two on Hares Ear Nymph. Joined by a tree creeper and a fallow deer in the dusk. Will return.

3 Trout

Lovely stretch, river in good condition very sunny day fished morning 9-1 with no joy on dry flies. A few fish were rising to the odd hatch but could not temp them. Fished afternoon 5-9 caught fish on black tadpole style nymph. Saw salmon splashing at the bottom end of the beat and startled a very large brown trout that was lying in a small pool by the exit gate which inspired me to come back.

3 Trout