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river very low no barbel but the chub were ravanous.Nice day on the creel

22 Chub

Hi, i had four hours of nil catch, i was using worm on float, also i tried worm on ledger, no luck, it was a glorious day though. There is always next time. Regards Tommy

A wonderful days fishing, but with the water so clear and the sun so bright, it was always going to be tough going.

Plenty of trout jumping, and a few bites, but we only managed to get two small browns to the net. One fish was caught early and one late, when the sun was not overhead.

Anglers always like to have something to blame, but in this case i know it was the clear conditions as I kept seeing trout shoot off as I lifted my rod.

The fish taking on the surface were all on the far side of the river, so we used wets or nymphs all day. We mainly fished from the salmon boards, to get to the deeper, darker water, but did a bit of exploring. I lost a decent brown at the bottom of the rapids (had the drag set too tight).

Saw a eel working around the edges of a salmon pool.

We probably only fished about 4 hours (early and late) as it was too warm at lunch time. Should have probably tried the rapids then, but it was as much a holiday as a fishing trip.

A very pleasant way to spend the day and I can't wait to go back.

2 Trout

Easy access and parking, and easy walk. However, hard work finding a swim the banks along the field have a wire fence and are over grown an although there is accessible pegs on the upper beat the trees where so overgrown as to make thing difficult.

Just needs some effort to make it fantastic

2 Other

River low, with a bit of colour, fished open ended feeder with pellet. Not a single bite. Will be back.

Great day out a few knock one lost eating alive by flys

2 Trout

Weather lovely. 2 nice fish. Fish rising. Only saw 2 others fishing more could be done to attract more fishermen. Didn't see a bailiff. Can't see why ticket machine can't open. £3 admin. Seen lot campervans staying overnight also remains of fires and someone was swimming. Up past nature reserve access to water a no no overgrown sad. Road to tower bad. The access to other side of water gate locked due to flood. Time now get that road soughted open gate. All this difficult for disabled persons. Sadly unless they sought issues and provide better fishing facitites people will not fish. Such beautiful area.

2 Trout

River low and very clear and fish were spooky. Sad to find this beat quite dilapidated these days. The description on the website should be updated to warn that the walkway is hazardous. That said there are still plenty of fish and was treated to one very visual take of my dry fly. Couldn’t crack what his brethren wanted though!

4 Trout

4 Trout