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4 Trout

An excellent day at Penpont with the help of fishing guide Kim Tribe. We began our day just beneath the bridge and after a slow start I had a nice trout on a midge dry fly. We then moved down to the pocket water in the section called "End of Fence" and did well there bringing in a couple of fish each using a Coachman pattern. We then worked our way up to the runoff from the Bridge pool and had success using a Pheasant Tail nymph. All the fish were in the 9"-11" range I would say.

The setting at Penpont is absolutely gorgeous and the beat is quite long and fairly easy to access for most of its length.

A big shout out to the guide, Kim Tribe, who is very knowledgeable and helpful. I am still a bit of a beginner - especially when it comes to consistent casting but Kim is able to blend instruction with fishing and keeps you active the whole day long. I will definitely fish with Kim again.

8 Trout

Rain the previous day put the fish on the feed. Trout to 13” ( fat as butter ). Caught fish on spiders and dry fly.

10 Trout

Water very skinny, clear and fast. Very few signs of life, no fish landed.

Slightly cooler overcast day so hoping for a reasonable day after all the bright sunshine. River extremely low , I’m hoping this was the reason for a non productive day and not my abilities!
Walked the length of the beat before setting up , not one fish seen, not one rise and no hatch, a thoroughly disappointing day!
Fished Penpont 4 times now and three of the four visits have been extremely hard work, I’ll give it a miss next time and try another beat!

Very hard beat very low water and very clear but lovely views and stuff

1 Trout

This is the first of two days' fishing on the Penpont beat, so what follows applies to both days. No fish, no rises, no takes - river was low and clear, wind was bitingly cold and from the East. I tried spiders and PTNs on 5 weight line and used the dry fly rod just to get some practice in. I imagine much finer tackle was needed, plus a much better angler than me to catch fish!

Summer levels,sunny day. A few small hatches of olives annd March browns although I saw nothing rise. Not a touch on spiders or upstream nymphs.

A day of glorious weather! Really did feel like spring although no-one told the fish. We are always keen to get our first session in and the weather forecast certainly encouraged us. A few olives hatching but not a single fish seen moving - the river is low and the sun was bright. By 5pm we were back at the bridge by the house so walked up from there and after a day of fruitlessly matching the hatch all day Jim tied on a ginger Jingler. First cast in to the fast water … wallop! A lovely 15” trout. Saved the blank!

1 Trout

River rather low and very quiet. No fly and only a couple of rises observed in five hours of fishing. Just one 8” trout caught.

1 Trout