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4 Chub on bread. Whilst fishing the Orchard swim an Otter appeared under the rod tip. They seem to be everywhere. Would this be the same Otter that has been seen at Lower Cannon Bridge? How long of a stretch do they patrol? Otters, Cormorants and Crap weather!

4 Chub

I had been waiting all Winter to get on this stretch of the Arrow, but although I knew the river would be high and coloured, had to give it a go before the end of the season. Fished from the top weir down to the bridge, but only managed the one bite on legered maggot, a small grayling. Will have to wait for the cold and frost of next Winter to give it another go!!

1 Grayling

No fish caught. River still slightly in flood. Due to the excess water in recent weeks the banks are treacherous so extra care is needed. Lots of evidence of otter presence in the freshly deposited mud and silt on the banks aswell as a flock of cormorants numbering in excess of 20 in a tree on the far bank.

Nil return.

Nil return.

Great looking beat but (save for a few fry seen at the top end) no sign of any fish.

No fish caught.

River high but fishable, despite the wind & rain, until lightning, mid-afternoon. No fish.

This should have been a wash-off, with Craig Llyn falls roaring so loud you could hear them from the A470, and the river two feet over its banks. But I was tired of driving, and the eddies & creases in the margins looked fishable, so I cracked on. Blank all morning. Then the sun came out round 12 noon, and I found a pod of grayling, sheltering from the torrent, in the side channel behind the island. Two decent fish in two casts (one of around 40cm, maybe two and a half pounds): heavy pink shrimp Czech nymph. A couple more takes in the next half hour, but no fish on. Then they were gone, and that was it for the day. And that was more than enough.

2 Grayling

Tough conditions, nil caught.