Feedback & Reports

A lovely first day out for the 2016 season, river looked good at 1' 5" but sorry to report no sign of a salmon. Good hatch of olives at lunch time and trout rising all over the tail of the Rectory pool for about an hour. Will be back soon.

No salmon despite good conditions. One suicidal grayling (returned).

1 Grayling

Very pleasant days fishing. One pull in rock. Three cormorants seen.

3 Trout

Smashing days fishing, banks very clogged up with willow trees and flood debris made movement very difficult, challenging. Lovely day though would do it again.

2 Trout

Unfortunately the river was too brown and high to fish after the heavy rain the day before so the rods never made it out of the car!

1'10" and rose 2" according to my stick in the two + hours I was there. Heavy hail scuds. Water clear and occasional trout rising.
Nil

High, but clear water after a floods from Storm Katy and a generally cloudy day made for good conditions. A nice 18 lb cock springer. Taken on a gold body Willie Gunn fished deep.

1 Salmon, 1 Grayling

2ft 3" 4ft vis and dropping very slowly. Warmish sunny afternoon with a few LDO's and Grannom on the wing. Had time to trawl a monkey through likely spots in Bridge, Gravel catch and Rock to no avail. Don't like fishing sunk line, often find myself feeling it isn't deep enough over the lies and then it inevitably hangs up on the inside. Oh for a few weeks time when the sink-tips and size 8's can come out.
Left river when water levels inside waders had equalised with the water level on the outside them!

3 Trout

Fished a relaxed afternoon session in low clear water. Leaves starting to drop but the weather was still quite warm. No fish seen other than a lively trout. I wish the salmon well over the next few weeks and here's to continued recovery in 2016.

1 Trout