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2 Trout

Having fished Court of Noke and Whittern Lyonshall, decided to check out this beat before heading back to Brum. It looks a lovely beat, but I found it pretty impossible due to very slippy river bed (would definitely recommend stuffed waders) and overhanging branches. I only fished the first 1/2 mile or so due to time, so it might be better upstream? Maybe I'll give it a proper go next time! Saw a few fish rise, but they were easily spooked.

A fantastic days sport. Every pool producing some sort of action, whether they made it into the net was a different matter! Huge midge hatches above the water and some olives coming down too.
Fished the duo for most of the day and took fish on both flies. Decent average size to today’s fish and I lost two brutes when twitching small fry streamers into the deep holes.
This beat really needs a selective few branches clearing to make more of the water fishable. A few occasions a single branch prevented a pool being fished! I snapped the ones that I could.

A very wild beat, but a fun one at that.

10 Trout

Fished from 10 till 1 with the river already quite low.
Fished duo as no fish seen rising although plenty of fly life around including a few mayfly.
4 Trout on a small bead head nymph between 4 and 8 inches.

4 Trout

Plumbed for the Arrow at Kington this morning , arriving at nine had a peep over the bridge , just about fishable with tungsten nymphs running fairly fast but clear . . . .

The down side of the field side now is that the farmer has put up new fencing , three strand barbed wire !!! Would you believe it , and no crossing styles whatsoever , seems odd , but I'm.sure hes keen too take each fishermans twelve quid for a day, but cant even put up two or three crossing areas over the fencing !!! So anyone who fishes it take an old potatoe sack or similar , even in summer flows theres a need to get out and loop round some pools into the field. . .

Still cold water , but caught two very small brownies, six and seven inches respectively , taken on a tungsten red tag , was good fun , but with the height only a few areas fishable at the mo . I did check little Brook below the bridge , that runs into the Arrow , that's running clear , so good news !!

A fun couple of hours and two lovely little Arrow beauties on the nymph , perhaps the WUF can persuade the landowner to knock up two or three styles to make entry and exit of the river a tad easier !! A fun morning back here soon , happy days!!!!!

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With the weather looking decidedly iffy up near Stoke Prior , decided to just stick to a local beat and went to the Arrow at Kington , an old favourite of mine . . . . . Weather looked a bit dodgy Sennybridge way on the BBC weather app , was going to give the Cilieni a bash , but will do that some stage next week after another load of shifts . . . . .

Was thirteen degrees in my truck when I parked up , blustery , trying to drizzle quite heavy , and altogether not very nice to be fair , oh well , let's give things a bash I thought !!!!

First few pools , very quiet , in fact , had the feeling and that hunch that perhaps it had been fished earlier , as was quite some time before I had one , on the Parachute Pheasant Tail , nice take , eight inches , and beauty slipped back in . . . . . Seemed they were spooked by something perhaps !!!!

Next pool well further up , another fish , again perhaps eight or nine inches , lovely summer condition , and quickly released , fished the weir pool , no response !!!!!, odd one that !!!Anyway , moving on , a chap other week got in a pickle with that grilling on those huge tanks , I tend to loop the field side and ignore those totally . As your looking up into the weir take the exit out to the right into the open field , then immediately left into the corner of the big field there is a style , over that , loop around the water above the weir , cross too sections of fairly loose barbed wire , then drop back down into the river above the huge log jam , sorted !!!!!! Above there I had my last two fish , as only fished hundred yards up that section , still a really pleasant three hours , from half ten till half one . .

Was nice to have a few relaxing hours today , but something told me the usual spot that I know so well here , as fish holding lies , were distinctly empty this morning !!!!!! And the four beauties I had took some finding to be honest !!!!! But hey that's life in a tall black hat , take the rough with the smooth , perhaps the changeable weather had really put the resident Arrow brownies into sulk mode ha ha , still great fun , Cilieni or Edw next week , looking forward to that already , happy days !!

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First time on the Arrow and won't be the last. Arrived at 7.30, possibly a bit too late. As i saw no fish after about 10 o'clock Parked up at the lower bridge and worked my way up to the first weir Though I didn't manage to land a fish, released 3 at distance and had 5 takes. The Arrow fish seem faster than those I'm used to. All on a 16 Parachute Adams. I think I may have missed out by not trying a nymph in the deeper runs.
Not knowing the beat I was struggling to get to the water above the weir.
I followed a rough path from the weir pool(right bank) which put me on a road which led up to the back of the tukey farm. The path seemed to go through some sort of effluent release point into the river, over some metal grating. Just as i was at the end of the grating it gave way and dumped me into the filthy water underneath. Not deep and no serious harm done but might have turned out different. I tried to replace grating but was unable.
A lovely beat, up to the weir, access higher up is an issue with a large log jam just above where the brook comes in on the left bank.

Booking Office Note: Thank you for letting us know about the log jam, and sorry you had issues on the grating! We will investigate further on both counts.

Bit of a slow day today. River at a nice level and fished from the bridge up to the weir then called it there after a few hours. All 3 were on the small side from riffles on a pheasant tail. Bumped into J.A. from Leominster as I was about to head off, who'd had a fair bit more success on the downstream Hergest beat, all credit to him. Hard work for few returns but a nice day nonetheless! cheers

3 Trout

Well gave one of my favourites a really early session this morning , got to the bridge at ten to six , having given the pooch a good blast , fed the pigs and let the hens out . . . Lovely to be on the Arrow at a nice height , like Thursday , water pushing through nicely , started with a Parachute Greenwells , quite a large one , as still pretty dim at six !!!!!

First pool , always a banker , nice splashy take !!!! Spot on , Great start , and a lovely ten inch Arrow brownie too hand . . . Next pool , another nice fish , good start , and only five passed six !!!!

Had to get a shimmy on , as the Grandson was being picked up by Mrs A in Hereford about nine , so couldn't hang around , moving swiftly through each pool , prospecting all the likely areas . . . Some nice fish too hand during the two hour session , and seven lovely fish too hand , ranging from seven to eleven inches , all on the Parachute Greenwells . Most takes savage as well . And three missed too.

By seven sun started to poke through and warm things up , as when I started it was only eleven degrees ; reading in my truck !!!! A nice start to the day , back home , and a busy day ahead , cinema later , watching Fast and Furious , followed by the a Beefy Boys dinner , a real Man day !!!!! Spot on , A lovely start to a great day , lovely job . . . . . . . . . . . . . Back soon !!!!!

7 Trout

This beat has had a bit of a hammering this season. I checked the catch returns this morning and saw that it hadn't been fished for 4 or 5 days so I thought I'd pop down after lunch for a few hours. Didn't see a sign of a fish and no rises or takes at all - even tried my trusty Can't Fail Fly, that didn't work either. Got above the middle weir and then started to see signs of life and got 4 to the net, all on a size 16 pheasant tail klinkhammer. Back home to log my return and saw that the beat was fished again this morning - that would explain it !!! Think I'll head over to the Escley next, that hasn't been fished since last year!

4 Trout