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Found my shortest rod (7'6") was too long for this small beat

The Hindwell is now very low and clear and fish easily spooked. Fished a couple of hours this afternoon using duo. All fish to a bead head nymph in the faster water.

5 Trout

2 Trout

Good day lovely place and had a laugh at my mate getting shocks from the electric fence

2 Trout

Only fished the lower section as had to travel home.

Lots of fishy spots but not much showing. Fished dries all morning.

Very overgrown and very difficult to navigate in sections. Upper section above weir may be easier.

1 Trout

Arrived around 10am and left just after 5pm. Overcast and warm conditions. Water was clear, good level and flow. 2 anglers. We had 5 trout to hand and hooked and lost a similar number. Only covered the lower half of the beat. My colleague modestly asked me not to mention he had 3 of the fish to hand but in my defence we hooked equal numbers.

5 Trout

Return visit with some heavier nymphs, this proved more successful (although I caught one less trout than last time) in terms of contacting fish. I managed 3 lovely trout to about 10" but lost 7 others including a really good fish with barbless hooks giving the fish a fair chance - that's my excuse anyway. All fish on tungsten grhe.

3 Trout

A glorious day to be on the river, a lovely small stream, and should have managed a few more fish really but getting the flies down was the issue I think given the fairly quick flow to the fishy pocket water, and the lack of rising fish (there were a few but not many). I will be ordering some more tungsten flies and adding some split shot to my kit for next time. All four fish were around 8/10" with two taken on a pt nymph, one on a grhe and one came to a black klinkhammer. I will try to do better next time, as always, but my electric fence shock tally definitely needs to come down!

4 Trout

The Hindwell looked fishable when I arrived after lunch but the heavy rain from the morning soon started to colour and raise the brook.
Some Olives hatching and even saw a couple of rises but couldn't tempt anything.

It certainly didn’t feel like May with sleet and snow showers this afternoon.
Only fished a couple of hours this afternoon with plenty of olives hatching but still no risers.
5 trout on nymphs 6 to 8 inches.

5 Trout