Feedback & Reports

A hot afternoon fishing from 13:00 to 16:30.Quite cool and shady by the river which was welcome. Plenty of May fly hatching and a few fish rising when I arrived. Fished a Cdc and Elk May fly emerger on a 10ft Tenkara rod,which was a little too long.
9 Trout all around 6 inches apart from 1 near 12 from a deep pool. The Byton gauge was reading 0.45m.

9 Trout

1 Trout

Water very low. Sporadic fly life. 3 on nymphs in faster water. 3 on Grey Wullfs.

7 Trout

Superb looking stretch with beautiful surroundings, bank fishing. Quite hard going due to boggy/ tussocks. Did not last long due to being overwhelmed by midges, was not prepared for this at all, but will return suitably equipped! Lots of small trout rising and jumping, potentially very rewarding.

First time on this beat, caught the only trout I saw rise, a fish around 10" on a small dhe. The river was very coloured and the afternoon was hot, a few mayfly about but nothing rising, Some nice pools to fish and I would fish this beat again.

1 Trout

0 fish day, only 1 splashy rise. I will put it down to that I am new to this river :)

Small Nymph

1 Trout

Lots of surface action but, a very bright day with too much sunshine. The water was very still and I spent most of the day stalking into fish that, as soon as I had got into casting range they appeared to telpathically know about it and were no longer to be seen. When only moments before they had been rising like metronomes!!

An awesome, unforgettable day.

A smattering of mayfly in the morning and early evening. Heavy sedge hatch about 11.30. I fished the rest of the day with a small deer hair sedge pattern which seemed to do the trick. I managed to apprehend a few trout but, had the opportunity to catch many, had I been a bit craftier/been able to teleport/not been outfoxed by a creature with a brain the size of my thumb.

Big fish water. I did see one ginormous old bird that will haunt my dreams. She was almost uncatchable as her lie was within a tree root and a log pile. I spent 2 hours trying to get a good drift over her and finally got her to rise to a size 22 IBD imitation (having tried most everything else in my flyboxes), I struck, ready to try and wrestle her out of the tree roots but, did not even prick her! I will be back very soon to give her another go!!

The Fishing passport is an awesome scheme and so easy to book last minute - for those as disorganised as me.

Thanks to all involved.

5 Trout, 1 Chub

Found the upper part ( above the bridge) of the beat difficult to access. River gates and overgrown fences.
Bottom half clearer although needed some climbing to get over a large oak tree in the river.
Otherwise plenty of fly life including hundreds of damsels and dragonflies.
6 WBT on parachute Adams

6 Trout

not a lot of fly hatches I fished the French leader in the heads of the pools and casted to any rising fish on the drys while shaun fished clink and dink I took 4 on the dry on a Olive emerger and lost a few the rest for me on the French leader. overall shaun had a couple more that me just on the clink and dink on a small nymph it was the best method on the day

25 Trout, 18 Grayling