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First outing of the year on the river. 5 wbt to goldhead ptn. A couple of tentative rises but not warranting a change to the dry.

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Warm but nothing moving.

Lovely warm day - plenty of grannom about between 1pm and 2.30 but no fish seen.

Managed two hours before dusk. The river was low and clear. Three to a size 16 PTN from the deeper pools. The other, a plump 10" fish rose to a size 14 Adams in the stretch just down stream of the Gladestery Brook.

4 Trout

5 Trout

River a little low. The day was blustery. Trout rising sporadically.
Only managed one fish between the two of us. We were fishing 7'6" rods, should have taken our 6' rods really with 1 or 2 weight lines as the clarity of the water was good and the fish easily spooked.

1 Trout

River very low-lot of green weed-difficult to wade as very slippy. Fished mid day and early afternoon but needed to be fished this time of year early or evening rise. Caught fish about 7 ins. Changed to small Tupp indispensable for success.

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Fished the top half from Malhollam bridge upstream from 6 to 8 pm. Water level rather low and the trees quite overgrown made for a tough couple of hours. I immediately rose and missed a very good fish under the bridge on a dry Sedge but managed to land a couple of around 6 inches further up stream.

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A pleasant enough day, overcast with an intermittent breeze. Not a sausage! Hardly a rise all afternoon, I tried everything but to no avail. The resident Kingfisher patrolling it's stretch above the weir certainly isn't shy. I hope it had more success than me. Unusually the indoor chicken farm(?) was very smelly.

Had a very frustrating and difficult day on this beautiful stretch of the Arrow. The day was bright with no wind and the water was clear, I had thought that with all the thunder storms around the Midlands and Wales that it might have been slightly coloured but definitely not!
I knew it was going to be tough when every time I saw a fish rising by the time I got to a point where I could cast the fish was long gone.
While I'm still a novice at fly fishing I do have a lot of experience stalking fish when coarse fishing, and how anyone got in range of these fish with tenkara outfit amazes me! I even tried sitting still for a while and waiting for the trout to re-appear, which they did, only to have them disappear the moment my fly hit the water!
To make matters worse I actually managed to hook 10 fish, including one large brownie tempted from under a tree, sadly the majority got off the hook.
I began to suspect there was something wrong with my flies, but they seemed ok, and they definitely didn't have any problem hooking and staying hooked to every leaf, twig and rock on the entire stretch.
On a bright side the whole river was alive with wildlife, Mayflies, dragon flies and damsel flies were all on the wing, and twice a pair of king fishers shot past me in blue blurs.
Overall this beat is superb, plenty of fish and plenty of likely looking areas to cast to, shame there are so many of those fly eating beech trees though!
Thanks WUF for another great day

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