Feedback & Reports

Arrived on a beautiful morning with river at 0.88 m and the colour of Assam’s finest. River dropped 4 inches on the day and gradually clearing. Beat looked stunning and went through the repertoire for 8hrs with fly and spinner. No sign of Salmo Salar for me but my buddy saw a good fresh fish on Rock and had a fish lunge at his fly on the back cast. It escapes many people how we have such a great day without catching but we do. That feeling of anticipation when the river is right is indescribable. Our time will come again.

A few hours in a late afternoon and evening session. Good flow in the river, which rose several inches while I was there. A fair amount of weed in my swim but managed to negotiate this to land five nice barbel up to 7lbs 12 ozs. All on pellet and feeder.

5 Barbel

All fish caught on New Zealand dropper.

2 Trout, 2 Grayling

1 Trout

went up with my grandson to introduce him to salmon fishing, must be my lucky omen we caught a 12lb fish , I hooked it he played it and landed it , he also released it

26 Trout

River level was up but fining down with a slight tinge of colour. 1 Barbel and 1 Chub caught during the afternoom and the rest caught in a 2 hour feeding spell to dusk. All caught on meat. Absolute chaos with the canoes resulting in one sinking in my swim and another turning over in the far bank willows with kids screaming they didn't want to die hanging onto the branches and their dad who wasn't wearing a life jacket trying to get them out!.. which thankfully he did. The Wyebank stretch is fast flowing especially with higher water levels and some of these people have not been in a canoe before, the hire companies should station someone at Lydbrook to keep an eye on and advise their customers how to tackle this stretch without hitting the cribs or far bank trees and sinking!... It might also help us anglers.

5 Barbel, 7 Chub