Feedback & Reports

Another pleasant session, Fished the evening. 3 trout all 8” from the pool where the Escley enters.
Sat and watched for 1/2 hour, this is a lovely spot to watch all that goes on in ,and on the river,
Always learning Caught the 3 fish then all went quiet .

3 Trout

River in good condition with plenty of small fry. Caught two small trout on gold beaded fly.

2 Trout

8 Trout, 1 Grayling, 2 Chub

Caught 8 nice trout around a 1lb each on wets including black pennell and bibio. All returned safely.

8 Trout

Spent an hour fishing the lower half of this beat on a lovely evening. Sky was thick with mayfly on approach but little activity on the water. Hooked a nice WBT on a Yellow Wulff but lost it. Beautiful spot with some reasonably accessible pools, particularly higher up the beat.

Fished for a couple of hours after lunch (not the best time of day). River in good condition with mayfly rising - no fish rising or seen. Some lovely damsel flies: these, the garden flowers and the sound of the weir and water wheel was enough!

Size20 jig hook olive hares ear nymph method French nymphing not much water or flow could do with a bit of tlc

4 Trout

11lb hen fish on a size 14 bann shrimp from the neck of the Rectory, been in the river a while starting to colour up but happy to finally get the season going

1 Salmon

My first time here and a tough day fishing wise, river getting very low with very few aquatic insects coming off, the only real hatch of the day was of the tiniest upwings I’ve ever seen, these were then joined by a very limited number of larger insects, just enough to get the odd fish to show itself once or twice if you were lucky.
However I managed to find enough to keep me fishing dries and enjoyed some very stealthy wading targeting difficult fish but at the end of the day only one was brought to hand, this may sound like a lousy days fishing but it was thoughly enjoyable with fish lost and missed during the day. There are some wonderful dry fly flats which would make fantastic fishing with a decent hatch, I’ll definitely be back.

1 Trout

Alfred Pope landed a 10lb fresh run fish on The Nyth just before dark on a small black tube fly in low water.

1 Salmon