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Warm day, cloud shielding the sun, a truly beautiful spring day. Very slow start with nothing rising and little fly life. This all changed at about 1pm when the river came to life with rising fish in pool after pool. Mixed hatch of LDO's and some sedge.
Managed 12wbt (all returned) all on an Adams Para. The most extraordinary thing is that 10 of these fish were over 9 inches with the biggest 14". It's astonishing that this relatively small stream holds so many decent sized fish. And what beautiful fish they are too, adorned with those characteristic red spots.
Despite 6 1/2 hours wading, still haven't reached the end of this beat!

12 Trout

First time on my Wild Stream Season Ticket and more than happy with availability and the ease to check on waters, process is very good.
The water downstream of the weir was very difficult to access, a lot of fallen trees/branches and overhung branches in the way of some good looking swims. Upstream of the weir swims were easier to fish but poor bank access once again restricted where you could manoeuvre into position - more work is required to place cross over points along the ditches and boggy areas in the top meadows + covered barbed wire access points would be good in the chest wader department.
From a fishing perspective, the river was in good trim and fished reasonably well - 2 WBT from the weir pool in the morning on a tungsten nymph + 1 WBT taken on a dry in the top pool before lunch. The afternoon produced a good sized Grayling upstream of the weir on a tungsten nymph and then 3 WBT on a dry in the top pools.
There wasn't a significant hatch but enough activity to suggest it will fish better given warmer conditions.
A nice little beat & next time will probably combine this with another beat such as Court of Noke or Eardisland on the day.

6 Trout, 1 Grayling

Olive dun, single fish returned.

1 Trout

Rising fish on the slower water at the bottom of the beat all day, save for an hour or two around 5 o'clock. 3 decent trout caught, all around the pound, and about a half dozen on and off. They seemed to be keen on an Imperial in size 14 or 16 (when I lost all my 14's)! Didn't make contact with any small fish and a much bigger one straightened out what was a very weak hook! Great fun, seem to be lots of trout here. Brook Dun, Olive Upright and increasingly Yellow Mays about.

3 Trout

Nice spot, some movements, regretly I had to return very quickly to Northampton. I'll be back with more time.
Several rises, some little trout were rising to a dry fly.
Very nice spot, easy to find the park. By the way the box for the vouchers is very helpfull (don't pick up).

A fine days fishing with trout rising to LDOs, a good hatch of March Browns was largely ignored along with the odd late Grannom. Most fish were taken on Olive F fly, 2 to Cock winged dun and one to a grannom pupa.

11 Trout

6 WBT to largest of 16" all rose to Adams Para. Nice beat done in 7 hours although hiked the last 1/4 mile to top without fishing.

6 Trout

All returned including nice fish of 2lb and 1.5lb

14 Trout

Very good water conditions. Active olive hatches all day. 5 brown trout on Adams size 14, one on black spider size 16 and two on gold head HE nymphs sizes 16 and 14. All returned.

8 Trout

An excellent day's fishing at this picturesque beat. The slower flowing stretches were unproductive, but casting into faster water brought four plump trout to the net, hard-fighting fish in the 9 - 10 inch range. Three fell to a small goldhead nymph, the fourth to a Coachman, all fished downstream wet fly. A couple of other fish took but escaped the net. It seems that Spring is here at last!

4 Trout