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Arrived midday, no fish rising so went on clink and dink. First fish a good 12 inches, second about 8 inches. A nice beat but water a bit low. Hope to revisit in better conditions.

2 Trout

Overcast with light rain throughout the day. S.Westerly wind. Daddy long legs again proved successful.
Tried to access the Fly Only section beyond the Tower. Impossible in decent fishing gear unless you want to damage it as it's so overgrown. It's a shame that such a great place is so badly maintained.

4 Trout

4 quick fish taken and I mean quick. Fished to an early-ish rise 8.30am, limit taken by 9.15am. All taken on a mepps silver spinner. Weather showery and over cast.

4 Trout

River at its lowest level for the whole year, cooler weather though helping fish.

10 Trout

This beat was very low on water, most parts were unfishable.
Quite a lot of very tiny fish, but no sign of any decent size fish.
Tried a medium sink line first, with some small nymphs and PTN. Sun came out and there was a few rises, so changed to a floating line and dries, still no bites.
A great location, will be even better when there has been a decent amount of rain.

Beautiful stretch, in the morning fished the upper part of the beat. It was very active, lots of fish, all around a 1/1.5 lb. After lunch started on the mid section, first pool but nothing happening - moved down to the crossing point which should have had tons of fish but nothing. Lower section, long deep pools - couple of large fish jumping but did not catch anything. Early evening went up to mid section and this was bubbling from the crossing point up - between the two of us we had approx 30 fish 1/1.5lb. Great sport but no large fish, even after a promise that it had been stocked with 2lb plus fish - overall a lovely day and great sport.

30 Trout

The WUF description for the top of the beat sounded enticing but after parking at the bottom of the orchard, we found the path through the woods very treacherous and access to the water limited. We gave up trying to find fishable swims, wasting a couple of hours. Eventually, we parked at the bottom of the beat and after a stroll across the field, found a few likely swims down the very steep bank. Massive wads of weed were coming down forcing us to keep the rods very low but the rise in water levels brought fish on the feed. Between 2.30pm and 8pm we had 11 barbel to 7lb and a half a dozen chub to make up for the earlier disappointment. Not an easy section to fish and pretty snaggy.

After a late start on Tuesday me and the boy managed 4 barbel and three chub, all on pellet. Up and at 'em Wednesday. 14 barbel to 7lbs and 24 chub knocking the 5lb mark. The beat, as always was in great shape thanks to Colin the gillie.

18 Barbel, 27 Chub

River was the lowest I have seen it. Personally, I feel this beat is suited to coarse and not game. I was salmon fishing and caught nothing but my companion who was coarse fishing, had a nice barbel of about 10lb.

2 Trout, 2 Grayling