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Nice couple of hours fishing, water still a bit coloured from heavy showers earlier in the week. All fish caught to the dry fly, not easy, had to search out rising fish but if you could find them they were on.

6 Trout, 6 Grayling

Lovely beat as I expected but water chocolate brown and hammering through. 1 small trout on weighted nymph in streamy water and all in all very difficult wading and fishing.

1 Trout

2 x trout to 1.5 pounds, 7 x grayling to 0.75 pounds. River pretty low, strong showers through the day, and a general shortage of surface activity. OB's contribution was managing to miss three nice grayling risen to the dry fly. Meanwhile CB caught the rest on nymphs.

2 Trout, 7 Grayling

An enjoyable day in many ways in a very nice, interesting beat. The larger trout was about a pound and in excellent condition, taken on a Grey Duster. I had a quite a number of missed rises in the shaded area near the pond. The fish seemed to turn away at the last moment.

2 Trout

Several trout seen rising but very cautious. Showed interest in small grey duster but never connected. One grayling caught on dry fly.

1 Grayling

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3 Trout

Great days fishing the river had tinge of colour the fish took dry and nymphs readily. Good luck getting the huge oak out of the river it's about mid beat it's not been there long so felt I should report it. Already looking forward to my return visit in the winter.

8 Trout, 3 Grayling

First time out here for a long overdue recce'. Super water and features and didn't get to see it all! Nothing rising or hatching and turned out to be a bright and hot day so that qualifies for an August dog day. Flicked a klink' and copper john duo around here and there and got a few nnibbles with the trout, 6 to 11 inch. No grayling though but you can see the potential so will definitely be back for more.

4 Trout

Arrived at top of beat access field. Farmer stated that he was going to lime the field. I decided to fish downstream and come out below. This was a mistake as I had no studs on my wading boots and the bedrock was slippy. It did not take long for me to take a ducking. Still it was a warm sunny day and I soon dried out.
Very wild wonderful stream but could not progress satisfactory either in stream because of the slippery bedrock while the adjoining terrain was difficult. Nevertheless a wonderful place to be if only I had studs and a full mountain biker's outfit of elbow, knee pads and crash helmet.
After forcing my way onto the road downstream through ditches and clumps of grass, thorns and barbwire I relocated downstream to a more civilised but beautiful stretch of steady gravelly water with the occasional bedrock. This had rising fish and I managed a couple of trout and a grayling of around 13 inches to dry fly before calling it a day. For a dead dog day of August this was a very satisfactory outing. I would not recommend to anyone fishing here but of course I shall be back.

2 Trout, 1 Grayling

Water level at a good height and clear. Not many fish rising as it was a hot, sunny day. Most fish taken on nymphs and a few on caddis dries later on. Best trout 14" best grayling a lovely hard fighting 19".

10 Trout, 5 Grayling