Feedback & Reports

3 Grayling

Lovely couple of hours on the river. Overcast and breezy but plenty of fly life on the river. Didn’t see many trout, just a couple rising once, and couldn’t tempt either. However nice stretch of river and will be back to fish again.

A pretty piece of water and although conditions weren't ideal a pleasant day. Having said that the continuous barbed wire fences all along both banks of the beat made access extremely difficult, the occasional stiles helped but a large amount of the beat remained unfishable due to lack of access. At times I even had to resort to crawling under the barbed wire in order to access a potential piece of water.

2 Trout

1 Trout, 1 Grayling

Good mornings sport, water low, very few fish rising. All fish caught on nymph’s, none taken.

3 Trout

Water level allowed us to wade long stretches of the Beat. Very few rising fish through the day, so nothing was taken on dries. All fish secured using nymphs and spider patterns fished up and downstream, and all safely returned. A good day out !

10 Trout, 2 Grayling

Overcast day, very low water, which was not as fresh looking as normal, it was a bit sludgy brown. A lovely day though. With the lack of water there were few opportunities to actually fish, but this beat does feature some 'fishy' looking spots. Especially the large 'pool' where the Escley brook joins at the top of the beat.
Three beautiful WBT. One of a good'ish size for a small stream, about 12". One caught on nymph, the others on the dry.

3 Trout

Well, we practised hard and we watched Youtube videos till our eyes ached. Then the two of us pooled the benefits of our joint research and we returned to the Hindwell, determined better our last performance. My objective, to catch a fish. My mate, to loose fewer. And we succeeded! 5 to hand for me (lost three) and 7 to hand (loosing only two) for my good friend, mentor and tutor. All told, a very enjoyable day.

12 Trout

River level very low, extremely difficult not to spook fish. Not much coming off the surface, but saw a couple of fish rising. Fished a size 16 parachute adams with a small gold bead PTN 12 inches below. Both brown trout (1 x 6 inches, 1 x 8 inches) took the nymph but had a few takes on the dry and a couple of long distance C&Rs. First time fishing this nice stretch of water but plenty of dog walkers and dogs in the stream, which became slightly frustrating at times.

2 Trout

Late afternoon visit & first time on this beat & so really worked out how to get at the fishing & from which bank to get in. As I walked to the weir at the bottom I saw several fish rising & taking various upwing species. Sat down & put a fly on & they all knew I think; Only saw two more fish rise in the next 2 hours. Missed one caught the other. He was a fighter too but went back safely. We are so lucky to be able to isolate on such beautiful stretches of British countryside. I shall be back ,earlier & with a better plan of action .
By the way the not-so-little spider who lived behind the felt in the lid of my Wheatley fly box had obviously had enough of playing 'jack-in-box' & had planned his escape; As soon as I opened the box he shot out like a bullet ,down my wader leg & off into the long grass. I suspect he was quite hungry having been in there for some months. I shall miss him though.

1 Trout