Feedback & Reports

1 Grayling

Tough day due to very high, fast water. Forced to fish under the rod tip which did still produce eventually but super hard going. Big smelly paste covered baits eventually worked.

1 Barbel, 1 Chub, 1 Other

low water, no activity at all.

Tough day. Few trout in nymphs. Very hard to access the river

4 Trout

Well, where do I even start. It is a fantastic beat to fish, but you absolutely need waders. I thought I could get away with just waterproof walking boots but the banks are steep and overgrown beyond imagination, meaning spooked fish and poor accessibility. The ONLY way up the beat is up through the stream, nipping onto the bank if and when you need. On top of this, there are no white posts to follow to the start of the beat, so make sure you take the path AWAY from the village and take the left hand fork when it splits in two. There are fallen trees and times when the path looks like its run out but keep pushing on until you get down closer to the river.

I spent all day climbing, crawling and sliding on my hands and knees to try and land a fish, and somehow in the end I managed to catch one. I did hook another one out of a nice deep pool by the bridge on a nymph but he wriggled himself free (sigh). Never the less, I threw on an Olive wooly bugger as a last resort to sniff out any territorial/ferociously hungry trout and managed to take a beautiful little 6 incher out of a deep pool who smashed the fly, day saved.

This beat is PROPER wild fishing. If you are not prepared to approach it like a military op in stealth on your hands and knees, with a few scratches in the brambles on the way, then go elsewhere.

All in all I will be back, with waders, and cannot wait to do so. Beautiful wild fishing and a point to prove to myself of catching more fish.

1 Trout

3 Trout

4 Barbel

1 x trout 12 inches, Duck's Dun. The only fish I saw rising this morning. A sharp frost followed by bright sun and the river very low again.

1 Trout