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Lyepole seldom fails to deliver. The river was up a couple of inches, with a good flow, and still carrying a bit of colour from last weeks' rain; but was probably the better for it. Steady progress, none of the flurries of fish I normally associate with Lyepole at this time of year, but a dozen plus from upstream before lunch. All on a tungsten nymph. Were it not for the otter and the cormorant that I was sharing the beat with, I might have had a few more; the cormorant was particularly troublesome, surfacing right along side me on one occasion, and giving me the evil eye, before flapping off to spoil the next pool. Downstream after lunch. Odd fish on a nymph before a switch to a klinkhammer, after seeing a fish rise, brought another half dozen plus in rapid order from the same run

20 Grayling

5 Trout

2 Trout

As others have said it's pretty overgrown but it's an interesting beat. There are a few access points marked on the beat map but some of them have fallen trees blocking access to the water. Looking at the pictures from previous anglers the water was a little bit couloured on my visit. Trotting maggots resulted in some small chublets and an out of season brown trout. I tried dropping luncheon meat in likely looking spots in the hope of picking up some better chub but didn't get a sniff. Look forward to returning ahd having a go in some of the other swims.

1 Trout, 3 Chub

River was up and coloured, so we concentrated on fishing along the inside line. After a slow start, the fish started feeding through the afternoon and evening. We used meat and pellets as bait.

4 Barbel, 12 Chub

Another enjoyable session on this beat. A dropping and clearing river produced early and late. Largest barbel scraping 8lb with the others around 5lb. All taken from various swims along with a few bonus large chub.

4 Barbel, 4 Chub

Great conditions but tricky going where river pushes into deeper gullys due to gravel bars. Took 4oz to (just) hold bottom with about 1m on.

Moved through 3 swims before finding the fish. 3 barbel to 7lb ish and 6 chub to 3lb.

3 Barbel, 6 Chub

At last a bit of water - maybe too much - 0.83 on the Ross gauge and very coloured....tried mainly in maddox and vanstone. did see a fish but couldn't get a take. did meet Mick the ghillie who was very friendly and informative.

Another great day at this beautiful venue, and a great lunch at the Saracens Head. 7 Barbel to 10.12 and 2 Chub.

7 Barbel, 2 Chub

8 Trout