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A nice beat but no barbel caught, lots of Chub and an eel. It was a bit of a mission to get over the hill but nice views for those brave enough for the climb.

10 Chub, 1 Other

Method - Spinning. These were the smallest rainbow trout I have ever seen, barely 12 inches!

4 Trout

Water was very clear, and low enough to enable wading throughout large sections of the beat. (Access points have been cut into the overgrown parts of the bank - thanks WUF).
We took numerous fish throughout the day, primarily small and feisty 'fingerlings', but some good fish were also taken using very small nymph patterns fished through the faster water at the heads and tails of pools (only one taken on a dry fly). All fish safely returned.

15 Trout

A few fish rising on arrival around midday, river in good condition. Caught on goldhead PTN. All fish caught were small, a larger fish hooked briefly. Rose several fish on CDC olive but didn't connect.

6 Trout

We had to battle our way through 5ft high undergrowth to get to swims but had a good day after that, great stretch and will be back again.

12 Barbel, 3 Chub

Lovely weather but poor result.

1 Trout

Quiet day overall not helped by the blazing sun (yes I know I shouldn't complain). 3 barbel around the 6lb mark and 1 chub about 3lbs.
We will be back to improve!

3 Barbel, 2 Chub

1 Trout

3 lovely trout caught on dries, should have been a good day. However, whoever said this beat is easy wading needs to review their opinion, not only is it very difficult in places but I would say dangerous. There are very few safe places to enter the river and there are more trees down across the river than any other that I have fished. When you cannot get across/round the tree you have to get out of the river - that's when the fun really starts. You then need a machete to cut through the jungle of 6ft tall weeds, nettles etc to try to find a way back to a path and then start again, trying to find another safe place to get back in the river, until you meet the next felled tree that you cannot get round. This beat is definitely not for the faint hearted.

3 Trout

9 x trout 6-9 inches on a Rusty Klinkhammer. A couple of hours fishing for myself on a hot afternoon during what has been a very busy month so far. It was a real treat. Fish were in the runs and pool tails rather than the deep water and very ready to rise. Quite a number of smaller ones and quite a number missed as well.
A couple of apologies and an explanation about what is one of my favourite local streams. I'm the chap who usually trims this one and I did it early last winter, working in the middle of November. I was quite pleased with it when I finished, not that we reckon to clear away too much - just a few branches here and there removed so that you can get a strategic cast away; plenty of cover left so the fish have places too hide. But then came storm and tempest along with bank-high floods, and by the time the season opened we were confronted with quite a mess. Apart from the changes in the bed of the stream, there are now several trees across and lots of odd branches in the way. Nothing to be done right now - volunteers all busy fishing - but we will get back to it this winter. Also, I'm embarrassed to have to apologize on behalf of my fellow-Foresters for the rubbish in the stream. To be quite honest, there is not likely to be a possibility for a major clear-up soon, given the number of skips we would need. It's an ambition. Still, try to consider that a tractor tyre embedded in silt never did a trout much harm and there might even be one hiding beside it. Last but not least, I noticed a while ago that a reporter felt that the WUF should have warned him that there is a sewage treatment works alongside the beat. It seems a bit obvious to point it out, but there are two villages up the valley. In fact most of our valleys have sewage treatment works. Thank God! Can you imagine how it would be if they weren't there? If anybody is worried, be reassured that the treatment works does not discharge into the stream but via a long pipe which goes far out into the Severn estuary. It's still a pretty stream with lots of little trout!

9 Trout