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One grayling (12 inch) and one out of season brown trout. The weather was cold and heavily overcast, but dry and still. The river was showing 1ft 4in on the lugg camera and was reasonably clear and falling.
Overall a disappointing day given that the conditions were ok. The beat is generally easy to access except for the lower end weir which is almost impossible to access due to barbed wire on the very old stile. We fished most of the beat but did not connect with any grayling shoals - perhaps next time!

Approximately 20 grayling and 6 WBT all carefully returned. All on nymphs & bugs, with the most success coming on a gold head hare's ear. A beautiful beat and excellent sport. Many thanks WUF; we will be back soon!

We came in search of grayling...we found The Garren running clear but sadly found no grayling! However the weir pool provided great sport with chub coming to the goldhead nymphs with alacrity.
The final tally of the day was one 4" WBT and each rod had 50+ chub in the 6" to 10" range.

3 Barbel from 4 to 6 lbs, 2 Chub around the 2 lb mark.

After the previous day's success (with Oliver Burch) we fished the lower beat and, later, the same spots on the middle beat we had fished the previous day - all with
hardly a sign of fish apart from two takes on a fly.

3 Grayling - Nice river.

Average flows, clarity 2 ft, 2 rods picked up 8 grayling on upstream nymphs, hard going.

River still on the high side after all the rain but fishable lower down in the beat. (just above 2ft on gauge) 2 grayling estimated 11" & 14" plus 3 out of season browns. All fish taken middle river over gravel banks on spectra/red tag jig nymph on point and one fish on pink shrimp dropper. All fish released.

Fished the Middle beat with two rods + guidance/instruction from Oliver Burch. Caught 2 Grayling (around 12") on dry flies and 3 more (one around 14") using Nymphs. River level was just below 0.6 on the gauge. Quite cold with bright sunlight.

Fished from about 10:30 to 16:00 when dusk arrived early on a dull, cold day. The conditions did not seem to affect the fish and the two of us finished with a total of 18 grayling to 18", averaging about 12", and four out of season brown trout.
Trotting maggot towards the top of the beat.