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Lost one fish.

Wow! What a long beat! We bugged out after about halfway. Great stream. 10 Trout caught, all on a Micro Glint Pheasant Tail Nymph. Good hatch of Hawthorn Fly. Fished Duo with the MGPTN below a Black Gnat. Unfortunately the lady who's home (just below the biggest pool/waterfall) abuts the stream doesn't like fishermen. Can I suggest to the Foundation that a beat map is drawn for the whole beat (it only shows the start currently), suggesting that anglers get out of the river below her property and return after it. This would avoid difficult conversations with someone who is unfriendly to fisher people and avoid the potential of spoiling an otherwise great day.

10 Trout

1 x 6 inch fish on size 14 adams. Very hard not to spook the pools infront as not many real shallows/necks to pools and the spooked fish from your pool just spook fish further up the river! Really challenging, will be back.

1 Trout

Blank for Salmon, 2 x Shad and a good size brownie gave me short lived hope. Interesting and well maintained beat with some fishing from croys and some wading at the bottom. Thank you.

1 Trout, 2 Other

No fish caught. Water was in good condition, enjoyable day but only one bite.

A great day's fishing with plenty of fish. Mostly about 10-13ins with a few larger fish the largest being about 1lb. There were loads of fish in the river but they are not easy to catch. We saw one fish that looked to be at least 2lb but could not get it to take. A great beat and we will certainly return.

21 Trout

Conditions were good but the fishing was very hard indeed, not for the inexperienced. There were very large numbers of very small (size of index finger) fish in this beat one of which we caught on a small dry fly but larger fish were few and far between. We saw 2 larger fish during the day (~12") and disturbed what we thing were a couple more but they proved very difficult to catch. Despite fishing very carefully and fishing the beat one by one in sections we were unable to catch any larger fish. I fished a single upstream nymph for most of the day. The gravel seemed quite silty in much of the beat with poor weed growth and on turning over some stones there wasn't a great deal of fly life. Plenty of small midges and we did see a 3/4 LDO duns at around midday.

1 Trout

Landed two trout and hooked another three. Black spider with UV Thorax most effective and Olive body nymph. The water was not particularly clear. Very few fish moving. Not an easy beat to access due to heavy undergrowth which limits significantly the amount of the beat which is fishable. However, enjoyed my day. Some ephemerids hatching but very sporadic.

2 Trout

River at a good level with clear visibility. Weather was overcast with periods of sunshine and light winds.
Fish caught between Abernant Stream and Lady Alexander's Catch on a variety of flies, such as Klinkhammer, Waterhen Bloa and Gold Ribbed Hare's Ear.

7 Trout, 1 Grayling

Fly fishing. River high with some colour. No salmon caught or seen.