Feedback & Reports

Not the ideal day, wet and cold. River a bit high but clear and fishable to start with but last nights rain put the level up so gave up about 2ish, just as the weather strted to improve....Fished the SHFC most of the day but did go down 3 with the fly rod just to try a skagit line out. Did see a couple of fish moving through and had a really good pull on 4. There's a good sized dead fish on the bank at Locksters minus most of its head… Otter breakfast I think! One day I'll get it right.

A lot of water but fished on for a couple of hours with no joy

18lbs fish on SHFC just as river rose for Joe Cobley

There are certainly quite a few fish in these Forest of Dean streams. All bar one caught on the dink end of duo, but having an indicator dry definitely helps in reacting to takes. Not sure I'd have caught anything like as many without it - and one nice fish did take the klink! All 6-10", great fun. And in today's conditions (light rain off and on, constant cloud cover, bit chilly) hardly any people on footpath and no dogs!!!

24 Trout

4 Trout

Phoned Nathan Jubb before setting off, we were advised that the river was too high and coloured, so gave it a miss.

Fished hard nothing seen or caught tough times ahead I think

A few LDOs sporadically coming off that trout were rising too but nothing prolonged. Didn't have much interest in dry fly offerings and all fish were taken on nymphs.

3 Trout

Nothing to report except accidental trout. The river was on the high side with 1ft 8 inches at the Trostrey gauge, but not too coloured, so there were reasons for optimism. It was good to be out casting again and thanks to owner Paris Paraskevas for the opportunity to fish it. However, I wasn't able to repeat his feat from last week!