Feedback & Reports

Dry day after a couple of wet ones, cloudy and overcast for most of the day. The sun came out in the afternoon prompting a hatch of upswing flies but there was no accompanying rise from the trout. Took two small WBT to a speculative dry fly, and lost one to a nymph in broken water at the end of the day. A good day and to be honest slightly intimidated by the size of the river.

2 Trout

15.6lb using a barbless cd9 firetiger rapala

1 Salmon

Caught 7 trout from 5-11". Most on a Black Magic nymph, one on a dry fly. Parked at the church - this section is very wild and challenging wading. Later on moved to the bridge further upstream - here the wading is easier.

7 Trout

12 Chub

We fished at Middle Hill Court and the conditions were perfect, overcast, plenty of water in the river and coloured. It was a Red letter day,the biggest barbel was 8 3/4 pounds and the smallest 1 1/2, all in excellent condition, so it just goes to show that the fish are still there but the right conditions are needed.
All fish were caught on various pellets and we fished at the top end.

28 Barbel, 5 Chub

The water level was back up again quite a bit and very coloured. I tried several places with no success and returned to the peg I started from on Wednesday and had two chub and a small barbel at 8.00pm.

1 Barbel, 2 Chub

Writing on behalf of a friend. One bite late afternoon which resulted in nothing.

6 Grayling, 1 Other

River level was high with a very strong flow, managed to find some slack water just before the end of Pylon swim, but the shingle beach was completely covered. Caught a few chub but not much doing.

3 Chub

1 Trout