Feedback & Reports

Nothing showing when we arrived and a dry fly was ignored. The first fish, about 7" came to a goldhead. There was a prolific hatch of mayflies and others which delighted the birds but the fish ignored. It was easy to believe that there were no fish in the river, which is very low, and we saw nothing move until after lunch. Saw five fish rise and caught one of them, about 12", on a mayfly.
It is a beautiful spot and if we had gone to take photographs, watch birds, or enjoy a delightful bit of the countryside, the day would have been counted a total success.
For any doubting Thomas's, there is a waterfall, but it is a long way up the river.

2 Trout

Nice warm day, lots of fly life including Mayflies but little or no surface feeding from the trout. Two trout to hand on weighted nymphs.

2 Trout

Went with my son, great day, sunny, river running clear, flies hatching but fish must have been on a day trip to Bristol. I did see one about 4 inches long leap out of the water but there was no sign of any other activity anywhere on the beat. Good lunch at the Stag helped the day along. Looks a nice stretch of water, will try it again sometime.

Good mayfly hatch. All fish caught on Grey Wulff (size 14). Best fish around 1 lb, but hooked and lost a much larger one.

4 Trout

Warm and sunny conditions and swarms of fly life including spinners was very encouraging but alas not a trout rose all afternoon. I dug out two trout with weighted nymphs and had a few taps that indicated the presence of others.

2 Trout

Sadly, the weather was too bad to fish

Beat clearly improved from when I fished it 5 years ago. A lot of trees cleared etc. Great job.

10 Trout

Weather good, river in fine condition with plenty of hatching flies in the way of olives of all sizes. Rose one fish which was the only one seen in 6 hours.

Cool, overcast start but lovely afternoon on this extremely attractive 'fishy' looking beat. Unfortunately, despite a reasonable hatch of upwings including Mayflies the fish didn't come out to play with less than a handful of fussy fish seen rising all day. We would like to think this was due to the river being above normal level and incomplete tree canopy cover rather than a lack of fish.

Lovely evening but the river appeared devoid of fish. Then at about 9pm a couple of fish started rising. Had 1 on a stack winged olive and bumped another. Nice fish of about 12oz.

1 Trout