Feedback & Reports

The barbed wire entanglements make the stream above the road bridge inaccessible as they are no doubt intended to do.
For the rest it is fairly over-grown and currently with very low flow. This means that fish are are extremely difficult , or in my case impossible, to approach for a successful cast. A few rising fish but the rest are speculative casts with only a few pools open enough. The weather though forecast as overcast with some rain was bright, warm & sunny. For all the gripes above, it is still a lovely stream.

4 Trout

Nothing rising, showery but two nice fish to nymphs in likely lies. Fallen trees evident in most parts of the beat.

2 Trout

River slightly coloured and a little higher than the previous week due to recent rain - still low however.
Although we saw several salmon moving and jumping, unable to connect with them.
After lunch had a couple of hours where rising fish became too much to resist and switched to trout gear. Much fun with both of us (on separate beats) finding that trout and chub were climbing on klinkhammers and grey dusters. Several fish missed and one large fish (I know... they always are) seemingly well hooked but lost after a couple of minutes.
Day cut short a couple of hours early due to prolonged biblical rain.

7 Trout, 6 Chub, 1 Pike

11lb Common, 6 3/4 and 5 3/4 bream on pellet. 2 small roach, 5 1/2 and 4lb bream on corn.

8 Other

It’s such a wonderful beat , such a shame that the majority of the beat is not accessible. Both fish taken on dries

2 Trout

My first time at this little Brook and not a very successful one. I was starting to question whether there were any fish here at all, then spotted a shape darting into one of the deeper pools. Plenty of insect life including several mayflies hatching, but I couldn't elicit a response to any of my atificials. A pleasant place to fish, in a lovely forest setting, just not much to cast at.

A very late return, apologies, I thought I had submitted this previously but evidently not. An excellent afternoon/evening, with 6 to nymphs in the afternoon, and another 10 mainly to dries after a torrential downpour freshened things up in the evening.

Frisky cows in field and in the river next to the parking spot, and a shiny new 3 strand barbed wire fence further downstream necessitated some nettle bashing and belly crawling at times.

16 Trout

Again, up at five , was going to treat the Mrs and take her to the Kington beat for some early morning exercise ,but last minute she declined and had the pooch out for a mooch instead ,so onward as lone wolf one to Kington !!!! She didnt know what she was missing !!!!! Ha ha ha . . . . .

Eight degrees when i parked up attentive seven and a cool blustery wind too ,definitely not a dry fly day !!! This same time last year I was fishing here , and it was fantastic sport on the .mayfly, and more water too . . . Still ,onwards and upwards under the
bridge and tackled up, tiny tiny olive nymph to begin , and interest in second head of the pool ,lively Arrow brownie , it went like that all the way up to the weir. Couple of huge ash trees across the stream now create an obstacle to test your dexterity and also to see how tough your waders are !!! Still nothing done about styles going out into the field , three strand barbed wire is very unreasonable i feel ,must be really aggressive wheat me thinks !!!!!

Also fished a walkers mayfly nymph , some lovely solid takes too it , spot on , with the six foot two weight rod , lovely job !!! Some cracking fish thus morning too , some in thf eleven inch range, but most about eight or nine , the usual gorgeous Arrow colouration ... .

A fun two and a half hours ,only fish a bit up passed the weir , as had plans for the remainder of the day , great fun , in need of some serious water now , and three styles on the field side wouldn't go amiss !! WUF could you pass on the info to the landowner ,maybe hes prepared to leopard crawl under the bottom rung of wire , but most folks just want a fun day without an assault course thrown in for good measure!!! That said ,a lovely quick session on a peaceful beat as always, back here soon , spot on !!!

10 Trout

5 Trout

Managed 2 small grayling, river low not much flow in parts.

2 Grayling