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First time on this beat for us. It's definitey a beautiful place particularly at the bottom end looking down river - wonderful! From a fishing perspective there is clearly a lot of work been put in creating "permanent" swims but choice is still somewhat restricted with a fair proportion of the beat inacessible.
We managed 2 barbel & a chub between us and lost a couple of barbel. The best barbel went 8.10. We were also unfortunate to encounter a Welsh "gentleman" fishing on the far bank who clearly owned the entire river as he proceeded to tell us in a very rude and aggressive manner that we were not allowed to fish anywhere near him! We had no intention of doing so but his manner was disgusting!

Several Salmon seen whilst Pike fishing, and one fresh cock fish of around 11lb landed on a spinning lure.

Fished from 9.45am to 11.00am - no fish seen or caught.

It turned out to be a tough day. Clear water and bright sun, not much rising. Just one 10 inch trout.

Saw a fish moving in the rock pool at the top of the beat at about 7.30am. Caught and returned a well mended kelt in the rock pool at about 2.30pm in bright sun light. No other interest unfortunately, but a nice day on a lovely beat. Had a cracking lunch at the Hardwick Arms which broke up the day nicely. Nice fly water shame there weren't too many fish.

Didn't catch or see anything, lovely stretch of river and a beautiful day though!

Lost one kelt on a black and yellow tube. Caught two good browns around 2 lbs.

Nothing caught I'm afraid. Very nice day, a bit cold to start (4 degrees) but got to 12 later on. Water was reasonably high/good. No rising fish, and although many spots felt 'fishy' I had no takes at all. Used march brown nymphs, grhe nymphs and pheasants tail of different sizes. Across and down, upstream etc. there was a hatch of March Browns, and a reasonably big one too (at times 6 or more passing by) and still no rises. I walked the whole of the beat from bottom to top. If I did not know better I would say there were no fish!! However I think the temp and weather change towards high pressure was to blame - that's how I'm dealing with it any way!

One 12" brown trout caught and returned. Caught on gh hares ear.

Neither of us had a bite all day. Very disappointing.