Feedback & Reports

An early session. Very cold early on, river steamimg for an hour or so after the sun got up. Started with a sinktip and larger fly, changed later on to a full floater and smaller fly. None of this made any difference. A beautiful morning however and no canoes before 11.40, some sort of record.

Came early to beat the canoes. Got 3 hours in before peace shattered. Nice morning's fishing.

Perfect evening, massive grannom hatch, fish full so not much activity. Getting the casting going better with all the practice I'm getting, but the salmon don't award points for artistic merit it would appear. I'll keep grafting away and hope for a stupid one.

Another late report from Wyebank. I caught 3 salmon on Allys shrimps size 8 barbless doubles, 2 around 9lbs consecutive casts, which could have been twins, after 9.15pm with other  fish rising as the first took and the last about 12lbs as light was fading and got it off about 10.25. 9's from above the rock 10-12yds upstream from Wyebank crib. I put that rock there in 1994 and have now caught half a dozen fish from it over the last few years. I saw at least a dozen fish and an awesome hatch of small olives like I haven't seen for years coming down like flotillas of minute yachts. Very very exciting all round - in fact amazing evening.

3 Salmon

A very late feedback from Wyebank
Caught my first salmon from Wyebank this morning est 14lbs on size 10 double barbless green highlander in Wyebank run, upstream from the crib.
The river bed is smothered in sedimentation and a fair bit of filamentous algae on the Wyebank crib looking "very healthy"!
Very large hatches of grannom since Friday. This morning every square metre of water surface over the shallows had between 2 and 4 grannom.

1 Salmon

1 small trout to a tube fly and a brief run from a larger fish on a devon minnow. May well have been a pike. Thanks to Don for advice, will be back.

1 Trout

River falling and peat stain clearing. Warming up, trout rising to large dark olives - I think! As I was casting a 2.5" tube I didn't contact any of them - salmon didn't seem to want it either.

Fly fished Wyebank am but no luck. Moved on to Courtfield late morning and fished all the way down from the top of Leg Meadow down to the Willow run with spinner. Only joy was 2 pike from below metal steps. Mid afternoon a large pod of salmon started moving through the Willow run including some very large fish head and tailing. Despite reverting back to the fly I couldn't get any takes so I assume they were just intent on running on the good water.

2 Pike

Lovely fly water and Don really helpful. Felt I was in with a chance but nothing seen or touched.

Fly fished with long tail tosh for one hour in bottom pool in the hope of a fish dropping in there after the slight rise and drop of water. Had two good takes and failed to hook and possibly a third. I'm pretty sure they were salmon. Saw a cracking fish break the surface in the run far side which must have been a twenty and heard another above me which I failed to see. Lovely conditions and the slight rise of 2" brought no colour with it so it can disappear between here and the Ithon!