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Persuaded my friend Mike to have a go at fly fishing and bravely booked this beat. Despite the fact that we both have 30 years coarse fishing experience, we were not that hopeful as I'm a novice too.
Arrived at about 10:30 to find the river running beautifully, so we entered the water. This was when we found our wading gear probably wasn't up to the job, we spent most of the day like Bambi on ice but still managed to remain upright all day! I lost count of how many likely looking spots I messed up on the approach.
Despite this Mike caught 4 trout, all on black or pheasant tail gold heads. I had 5 fish all on the same as mike, except for one on a black klinkhammer (my first on a dry fly). The fish were all about 4-10 inches except for one really good fish I had that went over a pound, all were returned.
We both lost and missed many more fish than we caught and learned loads. We saw quite a few small fish and quite a lot rising, and there was a huge hatch of small black flies in the afternoon (sorry guys don't know the correct name yet). There was also a hatch of mayfly in the early evening.
There was also a huge amount of fry in some areas, not sure what they were but there were hundreds in small protected areas of the river.
Overall an amazing day on a stunning beat, culminating in the spectacular Hergest falls which alone would have been worth the walk!
Thanks WUF!

9 Trout

Only fished a couple of hours in the evening (half of the beat). Plenty of small trout with the occasional trout to 12 inch. Nice otter is living on this beat. Otter was surprised someone else was fishing the pool :-)

15 Trout

Most trout came to the nymph. Some nice trout up to 12 inch. Also this beat has seen some clearance work, thanks to WUF.

15 Trout

6 fish between 4 and 8 inches all on various nymphs. Fantastic conditions, warm and surprised not to see more fish rising. Only tempted one fish to the dry and lost that one.

6 Trout

Conditions were good, saw a few trout throughout the beat but were easily spooked. Mayfly hatch around lunch time got trout moving and that was when I was able to match the hatch and bring one to the net of around 10 inches.

1 Trout

Very early season up there, even the Primroses were not fully out...Not a fish or fly was moving until early afternoon, when the weather warmed a touch. There was a very brief hatch of small Olives and in one bright corner of a pool a few fish rose.
Had two trout on a small grey comparadun. A difficult but very rewarding day. Many Thanks. LB.

2 Trout

11 fish caught to Adams para or olive klinkhammer. Six fish were handsome 10"-12" and the rest were smaller. This is one of my favourite beats and I have fished it maybe 5 or 6 times. Today on walking back to the car I became a bit confused with the field boundaries on the beat map and (unless I am going completely mad) realised that the impressive falls that I have always finished fishing at are not in fact the top of the beat! Will have to wait till next year now to find out what the last 1/4 mile has to offer.

11 Trout

The river was lower than I had hoped for but looked OK on arrival with a few upwinged flies hatching. I tried nymphs,spiders and dries but had little interest apart from Salmon and Trout parr. Didn't really count the parr but it was quite a lot many of which managed to unhook themselves.

Water levels quite low, water very clear. Caught trout on an elk hair fly.

1 Trout

The fishing was not very good, at the end of the spot the fish started to move we fished with dry flies and the size of the trouts was very good around 10 inches. Francisco and miyself were working the river.

8 Trout