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Well a dank dismal morning so headed for the Whittern beat , arriving at half eight , a lot cooler today, nice to be honest. River refreshed and a slight rise and a tinge to it as I tackled up . . . Walking back down the road sneeking along the edge of the corn field and in to the river.

Fished a Para Greenwells the whole two and a half hours and only did between the two bridges . . . . No no , actually I lie like Pinocchio ; I fished just up passed the Titley Bridge along that lovely dry fly series of runs and picked up two good fish along there !!

Fishing was good fun and lovely takes to the dry thus morning, Only cast to one riser and had him , the remainder were caught prospecting my dry in trouty looking locations. . . . . I must say two takes were very subtle in the glides, and one was a cracker of the fish , maybe thirteen inches or so , superb run around on the two weight rod !!!

I must admit after a couple of hours even my sprightly dry fly was looking a bit bedraggled and even a sprucing up and gink didn't seem to improve it ! But maybe it was just what the brownies wanted , they still hammered it in that last series of trouty runs . . . Lovely job . Fish today ranged from the usual tubby Arrow eight inch brownies, right up to the decent one of thirteen inches I had . . . .

When I cut out inti the now harvested field , the river was colouring up a bit more and certainly rising with the heavier rain . A lovely quick session and great to see the river filling up in July !! An invigorating morning !!

By eleven , it was nice to get back to the truck and a quick cup of coffee from the flask! Back home and a full bodied glass of Port and an afternoon watching the Olympics . . . . . Lovely jubbley !!!!

7 Trout

Well with the weather at scorchio, adjusted my fishing !! Up just before four ,.pooch out for an hour,
water in the hens and some grain , piggies fed then off to the Whittern beat of the Arrow . . .

Parked up at the easier Titley Bridge pull in as its not obscuring the gate at the overgrown Hunton Bridge parking spot. Tackled up and walked back down the Road to the beat start !! Positively pleasant even in a t shirt and waders !! Lovely job!!!

Fish keen to smash a well presented Parachute Iron Blue or the Rusty Klinkhammer I fished this morning. Some great sport and seven beauties to the net . . . Two of them lumps for the Arrow , maybe pushing fourteen and sixteen inches the other five were the standard tubby eight to ten inch brownies.

Fished from half five to half eight , which was just about right I felt !! Shall do that again later in the week . . . Plus its lovely being in the river so early !!! Most of the fish were tight in this morning cwtching under the over hanging cow parsley !! Great takes to the dries this morning and a cracking three hours to be fair . . . . Back to the Ponderosa and a rather civilised late breakfast !!! Sorted!!!

7 Trout

No fish, no evidence. Very quiet. Too hot

Water low and clear, little fly activity and nothing rising except 3 large trout under the Titley Bridge who treated my offerings with visible disdain. Other than this no fish were evident. The river is a lovely set of pools & riffles, enough LWD to satisfy the most extreme WWT member with plenty of gravel & easy wading. Unfortunately there is also a lot of filamentous algae which indicates a heavy pollution load either agricultural or more probably sewage.
As we have the same problem here, I went up to the Hergest beat to have a look and where there is clean water and almost no algal growth in spite of the cattle having some access to the river; a striking contrast and the finger pointing at Kington sewage works. A water company releasing untreated sewage? Surely not!

Well its gotta be a fishing day on a Friday !! Cut all the hedges last night so was well in credit for fishing time lol !!!! Opted for the Whittern beat again , overcast but warm when I bowled up at nine , a nice day and again opted for only a tiny Parachure iron blue , did the business again , oh and I also had two in the glides on an eighteen f fly !! Lovely solid takes!!

River is freshened up, but the rain wasn't enough to effect levels ,.looked last night Titley gauge back down to.17 !!! But water was clear as gin and running running nicely to be honest . .

Seven to the net during my four hour session ,.and I did do some of the Lyonshall wood section too!! Otter prints in the mud for a good way up passed second Bridge !! Tarka been busy it seems !! Two of my fish were crackers one maybe twelve inches another eleven.ish !!! The others between eight and ten !Still lovely fat Arrow beauties . . .

Kingfishers busy all morning , and i think I counted seven sightings of grey squirrels!! Gggrrrrrrrrr !!!Anyway as always a fun four hours sport , will squeeeeeeeeeze the Edw in next week in between work !! A bit more rain would be good next week too !! Off home and a nice cold cider me thinks !! Ahhhhhh . . . Well earned !!!

7 Trout

Well has a wee window this morning so opted for a fairly local beat , the Whittern beat of the Arrow !! Overcast and dull when I parked up at ten to nine ,.positively late for me !!! A tinge in the river from the last fee days of on snd off rain , and the river slightly freshened up,.lovely job !!!

Fish looking up from the off to be honest !! And second pool head , a lovely satisfying splashy take. . . Spot on nice start !! And it went like that all the way up to the second bridge !! Had some fun in the glides too , careful casting to risers as water is only a foot deep in places !! Lovely slurping takes too , and the fish go.mad in shallow water !!!! Cracking !!!

Had three thus morning in a tally of eight to net that were really good Fish, probably between twelve and thirteen inches , absolute crackers too !!

I stayed on a sixteen Patachute Iron Blue thf whole time I was there !! And didn't even.loose that fly !! In fact the same one has served me well on the Kington beat and Llynfi Dulas . . . . Lol !!!

Anyway , a really pleasant three hours only went a bit passed the second bridge in the lovely riffley water !! Always a banker of a good take by one or two brownies along that stretch ,.and it didn't disappoint this morning either !! Back here soon , haven't fished this one much this season , may give it an early bash later in the week , lovely job !!!

8 Trout

Quiet in the morning. No fish at all on the surface. Very few showing during the afternoon but took 5 on a minnow gosling in sensible fishy looking spots (credit to Oliver Burch for that fly).

5 Trout

Fished for 3 hours after 2.30pm. Overcast and mild . No fish rising so tried traditional wet flies. No success probably down to operator error!

My first time on this beautiful beat. Water level a bit low and clear as gin. Hardly any flies coming off and therefore no rising trout. Fishes the deeper parts with klink and nymph. Both trout caught on the nymph. My day was made by a Kingfisher who stayed quite close to me for a while - clearly he was not too keen on the competition.

2 Trout

Fished in the morning from 9am till 1pm. Tried the upper part of the beat up along the wood. One nice WBT approx 10” on a large dry sedge safely returned and a couple of takes missed.

1 Trout