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Strong coloured flow with no real prospect or result. Handful of Mays showing. Needs a few days yet to settle.

Fished lower beat closest to road. Note that for most of this section the river runs between 3-6 foot banks so access isn't easy for wading and its quite overgrown. Too challenging for me so will try top beat next time.

Arrived late afternoon and saw a fish rise before I had cast a line, caught 1 trout about 12" at the top of the beat on a gold head pheasant tail. Had another take just above weir which I missed, good couple of hours.

1 Trout

This beat was fished on Saturday 28 September by two members of the Grayling Society on an Area 4 Fishing day.

3 hrs, water low and clear. Access to water from footpath difficult upstream of bridge. Czech nymph and iron grey spider dry. 1wbt 6" to nymph, 1 grayling lost to dry fly.

1 Trout

Not impressed at all with this beat, heavily overgrown access above first weir not good and very overgrown elsewhere. What fish were rising I could not get near due to overhanging branches and vegetation.

1 Salmon, 1 Trout

Three trout, best of which was a surprise 14". Also lost a much bigger fish above the weir to an inexplicable hook pull, think it was a chub.

3 Trout

Fished from midday until 5pm, walking river from downstream end to top of beat. Very few fish rising and all but one caught on gold head nymph fished under various dries New Zealand style. Water at good level and cooling down after rain. 8 brown trout, one at 1lb 9oz and another at 13oz, remainder between 6 and 10 inches. Two taken.

8 Trout, 1 Grayling

Just one trout caught, about 5 inches, on a tups. Water very low, the one branch of the stream held hardly any at all. Quite a few fish seen, though, but fishing not helped by the bankside vegetation and overhanging branches. This was a shame as this seems an otherwise nice stretch of water.

1 Trout

Very nice stretch of river but a herd of cows exhibiting their usual nosiness followed me upstream on the right bank, with just one strand of barbed wire between me and their threatening bulk which was most off-putting! River was difficult to traverse given some deep vertical banks and extensive bankside vegetation (there is a need to egress river often due to deep pools). I only fished the lower half so further upstream may differ in character. The fish showed no interest in a nymph, but I did have three takes on a dry none of which I managed to connect with much to the disgust of said audience.