Feedback & Reports

Arrived at 7.30 after early start. River 0.71 m lovely colour and falling slowly. Perfecto. Fished hard for 8 hrs saw only two salmon show all day and no takes. Very surprising. Last chance saloon next week !
Must redress the comments by saturday's angler from London. Essentially he fished the only difficult wading spot above the bridge (rarely attempted by regulars)
To clarify and help any visitors to our lovely beat the following notes may be of assistance -
The right bank is an easier wade (but favours left handed speycasters)
Upper Rock is all wadeable up to 0.7m level depths but plenty of trip hazards. Competence and wading stick required. The stakes on upper rock is like wise a bit deeper by the last two or three.
Rock pool from the upper plat form is largely easy gravel right down to below the fallen tree on the other bank.
Wood stream is best fished from the left bank . Depth is o.k. till deepens above the bridge. Some trip hazards so wading stick advised.
From the bridge down wadeable fairly even depths but again trip hazards. All manageable with care staying close to the bank. But too deep to wade pass the willow. Wadeable after this down to cables staying close in. Below the cables too deep.
Hope this helps some of our visitors. Subject to change with winter floods!

5 Barbel, 8 Chub

1 Trout

5 Barbel, 11 Chub

Lovely new beat ( thanks WUF ) very easy wading, it was 0.45 on the gauge but I should imagine it would be fishable under almost any conditions. Didn't fish the very upper limit of the beat and couldn't find any way of getting to the lower section below the treatment works? Other reports are quite right about the fighting qualities of these fish, as I did pull out of three good fish, but none the less I had a very enjoyable day even though the weather wasn't perfect (damp and windy). grayling to 12" trout to 14"

6 Trout, 11 Grayling

4 Barbel, 3 Chub

One trout caught on salmon fly. Returned

1 Trout

2 x rods. caught barbel up to 7lbs and some small chub. also some dace on the float.

6 Barbel, 4 Chub, 5 Other

4 Barbel

Fished for 7 hours, no fish.