Feedback & Reports

A great days fishing. 3 anglers fished all using feeder tactics with the fish coming mainly to wrapped pellet and meat.
The river was around 3ft up but not overly coloured. There were plenty of fishable swims and we fished mainly in the first two fields with one Barbel coming from the the top end of the beat. (a long walk)
Best Barbel was 8lb 2oz and the Chub ranged up to just under 5lb.
Have fished this beat before and it definitely fishes better when the river is up to this level.

3 Barbel, 36 Chub

Perfect height maybe a wee bit high nothing seen or caught

2 Trout

River was flowing nicely, and dropping but the weather was brilliant sunshine and very hot. Most fish came our on pellet feeder.

4 Barbel, 24 Chub

7 Barbel, 12 Chub

River clearing and dropping made fishing a little difficult but work done by bailiff on the swims was excellent

5 Barbel, 16 Chub

Promising conditions at 7.15am but the river rose 3 or 4” through the day and started to colour up more as well. Still, it was very fishable and it was slightly disappointing not to see any salmon today.

2 Trout, 1 Grayling

4 Trout

Low clouds and drizzling all morning. Water higher and more coloured than expected when booking. Not a wading day, so fishing some slacks under the bank with traditional wets, Grayling Steel Blue, Yellow Bumble and Red Tag. 5 x grayling 12-14 inches, 3 x out of season trout 10-12 inches.

5 Grayling

Heavy persistent rains and strong south westerly meant ideal conditions for a few hours this morning. The Trout were feeding hard just out of casting range at one point and good sized fish as well. I hooked a Brown trout that took my dry fly and tore line of the spool powerfully a very good fish unfortunately it won the battle! I took a fish shortly afterwards again on the dry and this was a nice solid 12 inch dark brown trout and gave a good scrap in the heavy waves. Then just before I had to leave I cast to a rising fish and the fly was taken straight away by a good sized brown that gave another good scrap and this one was just over 14 inches long.

Great few hours fished from 8.30 am to 11.30 am.

2 Trout