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First time here, water low as expected, just on dries few fish seem rising manage to cover a decent fish alas poor knot tying....

Parachute Adams type flies, worked well but only in places where fish were seen to be rising. River clear and quite low. Beautiful sunny day, plenty of flies hatching but very limited areas where fish were active.

5 Trout

Caught nor saw any sign of fish River quite coloured from overnight rain tried a variety of nymphs Some lovely looking stretches of river though

Beautiful stretch of river. Crystal clear water with a good flow to it. Lots of flood and storm damage, which is probably great for the fish. Cold when the sun went in and a northerly wind kick up occasionally as the day went on. Only managed to fish for three hours, so I didn't get to explore the whole beat.

No fish seen, no splashes, no nothing! And more importantly no knocks, no takes, not a single sign that the fish were interested in what I was carefully placing in front of them! It's the first time that I have blanked in a long time, but it didn't really matter, it was nice to be out and in the water in this beautiful part of the country.

Only fished for a couple of hours late afternoon. This beat is easier to wade then Hergerst beat with some nice looking pools, but although there were some mayfly about did not see any rising fish, and did not get any takes.

Normally at this time of year this beat should be boiling with trout, but this time nothing, not a rise. So after about 1 1/2 hours I moved on the the Edw were there was more activity.

2 small browns on nymphs upstream of parking spot. 2 on dries between the 2 bridges late afternoon. One about 1/2 pound on mayfly emerger. A few risers in 2 of the long smooth stretches.

4 Trout

Dropped in for a quick evening session on this very peaceful beat I find and the water was chugging through very nicely here and with just a tinge of colour. Access in general and parking still good here too. Very quiet with no real fly and fish initially but some may spinner and olive spinner came out late on and a few fish moving. Had just the one to hand , a good fish and the usual Arrow loveliness. Bounced a few more off too, hey ho, and was fab to see a sizeable number of Swallows shooting up and down the river mopping up the spinners for a good while so you just have to stop and marvel at them and had a very up close and personal encounter with the Otter late on . Stuck its head out of a weedbed at the end of the rod tip.!
All just marvellous stuff!!

1 Trout

1 Trout

Had some trout New Zealand style with the big dry and nymph . Very good beat. A few boulders at the top but sunglasses and shin pads just in case.

3 Trout