Feedback & Reports

A quick evening visit on the way back home and river was rattling along nicely with a freshet from the recent rains and also carrying a fair tinge of colour and the bed where you could see it has had a nice flush out. Could be good this week I guess !
Nothing much moving on top but some huge olive spinner clouds buzzing around over the river and the swallows and swifts where revelling on them. A size 14 clownshoe caddis got me the one fish so was happy with that.

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Fished from 3-7pm, session started very windy and ended very wet, but the river was in excellent condition with a bit more water following recent rains. Started with a small gold head nymph due to the wind and later fished the Klink and dink but only took 1 fish on the Klink! Most fish in the 8-10" range, with one 12"+.
Lovely stretch of river and the top section benefiting from being cleared recently.

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2 x anglers fished the morning into early afternoon. The river was very low and clear, saw a couple of trout rise and a couple of fish spook, but otherwise there didn't seem to be any fish in the bits that looked extremely fishy! The fish were probably sat in cover (lots of lovely ranunculus growth, LWD and tree roots about!) or spooking well before we got anywhere near them due to the water conditions and time of day. The couple of trout we did cast to weren't interested in dries and we didn't get anything to take on nymphs in the deep holes. The beat looked like it had been fished all the way through by a couple of anglers very recently so may just have been settling down. A fantastic looking beat with decent access - would like to return when there's a bit more water in the upper section!

9 x trout 6-12 inches, Monnow Gosling, mostly around 10-11 inches. A cloudy morning and I fished up as far as Lyonshall Wood, when light rain started. I walked back via Titley Junction which is becoming a sort of railway museum. Super conditioned Arrow trout - I suppose they should be fat by the end of May.

9 Trout

Trout from 6-10 inches all on dry mayflies. Water very low and fish very spooky. Great clearance at upper end of beat.

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I tried this beat of the Arrow for a few hours in the early afternoon and what a lovely beat it is. There's so much variety in the river here, some stretches you'd think you were on a Wiltshire chalk stream. There was a steady hatch of olives and the mayfly are really starting to get going now as well. The trout were rising too, not in huge numbers but steadily. 6 trout came to the net on DHE's and Yellow Owl emergers, the first near the start of the beat a good 12".

6 Trout

Very hot and humid throughout the day with the odd upwing lifting off. 2 small trout to hand and a handful of splashy attempts were my lot for the day. Had a great conversation with one of the residents whose garden backs on to the river for ten minutes.

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This beat was fished on Sat 13th May as part of the LAFA Wild Stream Fishing Day and a number of fish were caught.

1 x 11 inch fish on a nymph, lost 2 fish on a dry fly and missed takes and lost a few fish on nymphs. Weather bright and sunny, river low and clear. Beautifull beat, plenty of wildlife.

1 Trout

River was very low and clear so I feared the worst. I tackled up with my new bite indicator ( a blob made from yellow dear hair spun onto a number 10 dry fly hook) I suspended a gold head hares ear about three feet below it and began with a series of short casts. I was rewarded with a couple of lively fish and added another to this brace later. on reaching the end of the beat I switched to a deeper sinking black headed nymph and was soon into a sizeable fish hooked in a deep gully. It finally came to hand after several spectacular leaps and weighed in at a round pound. Well satisfied and a little surprised given the low water I returned home. I like this stretch of the Arrow as it offers a wide variety of water even when conditions are difficult. ( tie my bite blob folks it casts really well and floats forever!)

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