Feedback & Reports

Had a few hours up here after setting up camp at Tan house farm, been a few years since I've had time up here and it used to be pretty tight then but now very tight indeed to fish !
It was carrying some colour still , fair enough ,but there was a fair bit of what looked like land run off sediment on the bed , don't recall it being as bad as it was today in the past .
Nothing doing at all so a Butty Bach and pie at the Crown finished the evening off rather nicely !

1 Trout

The river was low. Seven trout up to half a pound with many times more coming up to investigate a Blonde Wulf or Adams. A good three hours of fun.

7 Trout

Excellent session. Fished the evening after a warm day, Plenty of action. Hatch of white mayflies ,
2 trout 8”-10” 1 trout 12” plus what a beautiful fish .
In my opinion the upper and lower beats are best fished in the evening.

3 Trout

River very low, and the fish were concentrating more in the fast water and deeper pools. Very bright and difficult conditions all in all. 1 fish taken of about 1lb.

1 Trout

River running up a bit after the recent rain and carrying slight colour. All fish taken on nymphs with very little surface activity. Bankside vegetation growing well making access to some sections a bit tricky.

3 Trout

Was nice to give the Kington beat a bash today , water looked at a lovely height when I tackled up at ten , initially rigged up with a size eighteen tungsten flashback ptn. No obvious rises at the start of the beat , and the first pool after creeping under the bridge produced nothing , which is unusual , as I've had a brownie out of there on the last few visits . . . . .

The first brownie only stayed on for a while , felt like a decent fish , the next did stay , quickly admired then released . The colours of the Arrow trout are always a delight !!!!

Around elevenish some splashy rises started to show , no obvious fly life that I could see they were after , and only a few mayflies showing sporadically , so opted for an eighteen parachute Adams , seemed to do the trick , and had some great fun , only small fish at the heads of pools hitting the dry fly !!!

One decent brownie of about ten inches , but the others were all between six and eight inches , cracking condition , and tubby after feeding well probably on a mix of upwings and caddies. The bed of the river is alive with caddis , and insect life is varied around the river , saw stone flies , few mays and a variety of other upwings . . . . .

Was a nice four hours sport , five Caught and released and several long and short range releases !!!!, Shall give one of the other Arrow beats a crack in a few days , great fun as always . . . . . . . .

5 Trout

I had just over two hours during the afternoon on my first visit to this appealing beat. It was an overcast day and the water was still running a bit cloudy. There was a reasonably good hatch of mayfly and a small amount of surface activity. With first a Grey Wolff and then a Grey Drake I managed to miss an embarrassingly large number of offers (most of them from fairly small fish so far as I could see) and then lost a better size one. It's not always easy to get to the banks above the weir. Beware of the electric fence which rewarded my carelessness by giving my back a terrific thump as I climbed under it!

First day out for a year. Rusty fishing, rusty water, clever fish. No catches.