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All caught with hares ear gold head nymph

8 Trout

One nice fish of about 14 inches caught on a size 14 Caddis and safely returned. A bright day (but with some drizzle to mitigate) and very low water. Lovely condition fish caught on a self-tied fly using a self-made split cane rod under difficult conditions, it doesn't get any more satisfying than that.

1 Trout

Great stretch of river with a number of decent trout seen along the middle and lower section. Bright day with river levels good and clear water. No luck with dry or wet fly patterns.

Lovely stretch of river to be out on. Saw a handful of sizeable trout. Sadly they didn’t want to be caught though.

Very clear water and quite low considering recent heavy rain. Tried various techniques for 6 hours, but not a sign of a fish. The most promising looking bit where the small river joins towards the top of the beat is not included for some reason.

High water but clear streamer took both fish.both between 1and 2lb

2 Trout

Crystal clear water even following the recent downpour. Challenging conditions with strong winds. One bite on a ptn - failed to land.

The water levels were very low, probably a different part of the river would have been better.

Never saw a real fish all day. I'm sure they were there somewhere, but there was something of a coldish easterly wind blowing and nothing that I could put in or on the water was able to tempt anything other than a couple of parr like half-hearted rises. For anyone who hasnt' fished it before, there are some very nice sections to this beat, but they're interspersed with some quite long and featureless and not very deep pools that, in the absence of rising fish would probably have been better fished down and across with a team of wet flies a la Scottish method. At least you cover the water that way. I didn't have suitable flies with me though.

At the top of the beat the water gets a bit thin with the river this low, and the access seems a bit hit or miss, so I didn't go all the way to the top. But it's beautiful country up there.

Two trout (one a reasonable size) and four grayling, all on klinkhammers. A bright, sunny day, all fish caught in the shade. Wading/access generally easy. Was also lucky to see a circling kite.

2 Trout, 4 Grayling