Feedback & Reports

Scraping ice from the car windscreen on a clear sky freezing morning did not fill us with much confidence before heading off to the Creel.We arrived to a glorious early winters day but a very cold river...But much to our surprise we found the obliging Chub feeding and bagged 13 good fish with all the action in the afternoon.Another highlight was noticing a lesser spotted woodpecker resident on the beat which was somewhat unexpected and capped a great day.
Thanks WUF..

13 Chub

Lovely sunny day, good river conditions, but very cold.One grayling caught on nymph, but a number rising to the leader.

1 Grayling

A lovely sunny, wind-free day. 1.12m on the BW guage. After a cold frosty start, the temperature eventually reached the heady heights of 13 degrees but the water is now cold at 5 degrees...brrr! We mixed a bit of nymphing, trotting and emergers on the top. We only had three fish drowning maggots mainly because we got distracted by catching fish on GSB, HE emergers and a dark olive Ducks Dun! We saw an LDO and a single rise well before midday which diverted us from trotting and tempted a few fish up with the DD. In the afternoon, until about 3 p.m. there was a small but quite prolonged hatch of LDOs, and what looked like some aphids on the wing, and the grayling duly rose. With the sun going down and increasingly cold feet after a couple of hours up to our backsides in water, we retired content not long after 3.30 p.m. Fish from 8 - 14". Jagged or long-distance released plenty of other fish on the emergers as well, so lots of surface activity today. A very pleasant five hours fishing!

24 Grayling

very cold start -3,river low and clear so was expecting a slow day,first fish came opposite the concrete wall on cheese paste caught the next 3 slightly further down the beat.

4 Chub

Just 1 minnow! Found some interesting deep pools for further exploration...,

1 Other

2 anglers trotting. Tough, one lost too but fish were only found in one location. river low but clear, should have been ideal - no excuses there!

1 Grayling

Not a touch all day; Was dry,bright & cold...too cold I think. Need a little rain & a bit of colour in the water maybe as it was crystal clear today.Kind of knew it would be hard but can't think of a better way to spend a day off.
Many thanks WUF & river owner .

3 Grayling

1 Grayling

Good days fishing with plenty of rising fish and the fish wide spread throughout the beat. The trout were caught on a weighted nymph and the grayling on dry fly.

3 Trout, 4 Grayling