Feedback & Reports

River quite high compared to previous visits. Despite the sun a very cold day. Caught a nice size grayling on a beaded hairs ear nymph below a klink, two small trout about an hour apart. Quite a busy hatch about 12:00 but no takers. Had the occasional snatch on my klink but nothing to indicate a switch to dries. Did I mention it was very cold ?

2 Trout, 1 Grayling

Blanked. A stark contrast to our day on Penpont a few couple of weeks ago! Just one of those days where it feels like there’s no fish in the river. Didn’t see a fish rise all day despite a sparse hatch in the afternoon.

A beautiful beat nevertheless.

First time fishing this beat. The brook looks lovely and for a wild stream the access was reasonable. Level was good and the water was slightly cloudy with a whitish tinge. I fished probably about 3/4 of a mile of the beat mainly on a single nymph or a pair. Tried a dry fly on a few occasions. I had absolutely no interest to either dries or nymphs and saw absolutely no sign of fish. Having looked at the catch returns it makes me wonder about the fish stocks as on a stream like this i would normally expect to find fish even if small. As a personal observation fishing seems to be getting poorer year on year.

17 Trout

Worms

3 Trout

First day back fishing bobbin didnt move all day. Never mind nice to be back, better luck next time

Two tugs all day. Nothing to hand. Good chat with a fellow angler. Lovely stretch of water

Nice Rainbow trout

1 Trout

Sporadic hatch of LDO. Very little surface activity. Spider patterns seemed to work best

2 Trout

Beautiful beat with a variety of slow/ fast and shallow/ deep water. Unfortunately there seemed to be very few fish with only one fish showing itself all day in what seemed, by experience, excellent conditions. No luck or signs of fish with nymphs through the deeper water either. Disappointing.