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11lbs slightly coloured cock fish on fly.

1 Salmon

Hard day at the office. The weather promised much, overcast with slight breeze on the river. BUT, river down to its bones and running gin clear.
The day started well with two takes and releases at distance being tempted by a gold head nymph. My tried and trusted team of north country spiders did not provide any temptation. After lunch decided to have a go at specultive dries and am please to say the day ended with a decent brownie in the net that fell to a klinkhammer type, safely released. Thats it for this visit, again another splendid day worth the drive from London.

1 Trout

Didn't fish this beat in the end due to confusion with the booking. I made a last minute on-line booking at 10.30 pm the night before and only then found out that I needed to contact the owner a day before fishing. (The beat description didn't mention this.) As I was unable to contact the owner at such short notice, I booked and fished Lower Hill Court instead. Contacted WUF the day after and they were very understanding, agreed to amend the beat description to reflect the need to contact the owner a day before and issued me a refund. This was excellent and professional service and I have no complaints. I will continue to book via WUF as the fishing is excellent.

Very strong downstream wind made any upstrem method very difficult. None the less a nice stretch of river.

10 Trout

Very windy day. Water low, cristal clear. Hardly any fish risen all day. Caught a tiny WBT on pheasant nymp and a better one lost. C&R. Spotted 2 massive trouts /3-4 lbs/ at the upper end of the beat in a deep pool. Booking easy, lady was very helpful on the phone.

1 Trout

2 barbel, both in the 7lb class, and 3 chub, caught on pellets from the croys in the middle of the stretch

2 Barbel, 3 Chub

Conditions very tough bright sunshine and spooked every fish I saw. Nil return.

I found this a tough beat, lots of foliage to get snagged on and stream bed not easy to wade, mainly small boulders. Despite the difficult casting not helped by a upstream gusting wind I managed to hook three small WBT and landed one, all on small Adams drys.

1 Trout

Water quality fair. Weather better than expected. Very few rises and no fish caught.

A really enjoyable day, all three taken on black buzzer but very few fish showing. A very lovely beat, actually saw two kingfishers and a red kite. Will definitely be giving it a try later in the season for a grayling.

3 Trout