Feedback & Reports

Water low and clear, little fly activity and nothing rising except 3 large trout under the Titley Bridge who treated my offerings with visible disdain. Other than this no fish were evident. The river is a lovely set of pools & riffles, enough LWD to satisfy the most extreme WWT member with plenty of gravel & easy wading. Unfortunately there is also a lot of filamentous algae which indicates a heavy pollution load either agricultural or more probably sewage.
As we have the same problem here, I went up to the Hergest beat to have a look and where there is clean water and almost no algal growth in spite of the cattle having some access to the river; a striking contrast and the finger pointing at Kington sewage works. A water company releasing untreated sewage? Surely not!

11 x trout, 8 - 10 inches, klinkhammer, PTN jig and squirmy-wormy.

The water was low and crystal clear. The foot path along the brook was very over grown. However it meant less dog walkers and I pretty much had the Brook to myself.

Hooked 4 trout downstream of the bridge but didn't land them. Luckily, 11 more came to hand upstream of the bridge, ranging between 8 and 10 inches. All looked fat and healthy.

Four fish took s14 klinkhammer. The rest fell to s18 PTN jig and s14 squirmy-wormy. Great day.

11 Trout

2 x 6 fish limit, fish caught on orange lures and dries later in the day

12 Trout

Fished the wooded section and was into chub straight away. Caught on all methods and any bait.
No sight of a barbel.

47 Chub

Lovely beat, lovely day, no fish.

Both taken on floated worms

2 Trout

very few fish moving, one fish came to a black Klinkhammer, but missed. Blank day.

Only one rod fished between 11 and 7.30 and not much caught but still an enjoyable day on this peaceful stretch....There are plenty of small fish and I caught plenty of 4 to 12 ounce Chub and a couple of good dace....Unfortunately just one proper bite produced a solitary good Chub and leaving early kept the return pretty meagre.Quite enjoyed the company of some long tailed tits in the trees above me and the boat traffic was all courteous and not too frequent so will look forward to returning.

1 Chub, 20 Other

Two common carp in the morning (within 5 minutes of each other) weighing 12lb and 13lb. One eel and a bunch of silvers.

3 Other

One nice fish of about 14 inches caught on a size 14 Caddis and safely returned. A bright day (but with some drizzle to mitigate) and very low water. Lovely condition fish caught on a self-tied fly using a self-made split cane rod under difficult conditions, it doesn't get any more satisfying than that.

1 Trout