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Another fruitless morning on the Arrow. The river was slightly high and cloudy following rain the previous day but nonetheless in good condition. Access is somewhat challenging with the last mile or so on narrow single track roads with few passing places. Once again the profusion of overhanging trees and bankside vegetation make casting challenging even for someone with over fifty years' experience. Tried both nymphs and dries with no success.

Went down in the evening between 7.30 and 9.30 to see if worthwhile targeting rising fish. Very hot and humid. Loads of fly activity including smaller mayflies and BWO I think. Not many fish rising. Caught a rising 15” WBT on a white mayfly pattern and missed two other takes. Lovely couple of hours.

1 Trout

Nice water level, not quite clear. My first time on this beat. Really nice and I will be back despite a scramble or two. Some upwings about but only saw one trout rising. Changed to a dry, but could not get a rise mainly due to incompetence. Better luck on the NZ dropper. 5 trout on a Polish Nymph two of which were a decent size. Several others got off before they reached the net. A very satisfying day in beautiful surroundings.

5 Trout

An evening session from 19.30 to 21.00 looking for mayfly risers. 4 nice trout landed and and several missed or lost. Still quite a few mayfly around plus medium olives.

4 Trout

Fished between 4 and 6pm. No fish seen rising and both fish caught prospecting on parachute adams in deeper pools. Both safely returned.

2 Trout

Fished for 4 hours, warm sunny day plenty of mayflies on the water . No fish caught and not one single rise seen. This is the second time I have fished this river in the last three days and have not seen any fish rise

3 Trout

After checking the river levels and the weather forecast for the week ahead I took a gamble and booked the beat last weekend. River was dropping slowly during the week and was just fishable on the day with the gauge at Titley Mill showing 0.4m and running fairly clear. One or two Mayfly hatching off during the morning with a few more in the afternoon. Due to the light rain the Mayfly seemed to be on the water for some time but with no activity from the trout. Tempted 3 fish to an Emerging Mayfly pattern but only managed to hook and land 1 WBT measuring about 8 inches. Saw 2 pairs of Kingfishers which appeared to be nesting in the river banks and plenty of Dippers. Once again lovely day on the Arrow.

1 Trout

Went up for a couple of hours mid afternoon. A few fish rising and 1 circa 9” WBT caught on parachute adams and returned.

1 Trout

1x hard earned , hard fighting 12in wbt. The only rise seen in 4hrs , too high too soon ? Came to grey duster.

1 Trout