Feedback & Reports

Fished for salmon with John Lewis. Water colour and height perfect for spinning at .77m.
John hooked and landed a 10lb hen fish from the sill above the rock at 11.50. Nice fresh specimen which was duly unhooked and returned. Took red and copper fc.
John also hooked a trout of 1lb on the same lure at the very bottom of the beat at about 5pm. Fish returned OK
2 other salmon moved in the chine.
I had no luck.

1 Salmon, 1 Trout

River in fine form, fish everywhere. Syndicate member had a fish of 20lb this morning. I hooked something on beat 3 on a small cascade this evening. Put a good bend in the rod for a few seconds​. All I managed were 3 shad for the day.

3 Other

Afternoon trying to make amends for yesterday's losses, but not today. Saw fish moving through the orchard.

Three brown trout caught and released on dry flies, including Parachute Adams. Largest fish was around 9-10 Inches, caught at dusk.

3 Trout

Fished for 3 hours or so on lower section of beat (up-to end of left bank access). Wading and access is fairly easy along the length, and certainly plenty of fish in evidence. Some sections very difficult to cast in, but where it is possible, fish very willing to take whatever was offered. I lost / missed probably three times as many as I landed, once being so pleased to be able to land a fly on the water that I forgot to strike!
Will certainly return to explore other parts of this river.

6 Trout

2 Trout

Two bite, two hook out unfortunetery. Other gentleman caught one.

15 Trout

A red letter day to remember! Having fished Gromain on Sunday with poor water clarity for most of the day and no fish to the net, my brother Phil and I were full of anticipation at the prospect of hitting Rectory at a perfect water height and clarity with the gauge at 1'10" and slowly falling. We were not to be disappointed with the best mornings fishing we have had.

The Rock Pool was the obvious choice and starting at 7am within a few minutes and his first proper cast my brother Phil was into his first fish at top of Rock 11lb Hen fresh run sea liced on JC cascade size 8. Within 30 mins I was into my first fish again in top of Rock 12lb Hen fresh run sea liced on JC cascade size 8.

At 10am Phil was into his second fish from tail of Rock 12lb Hen bar of silver sea liced on JC cascade size 8.
At 10-30am I was into my second from tail of Rock 15lb cock slightly coloured but still carrying sea lice again on same fly.
At 11 am and again in tail of Rock I was into my third 12lb cock again carrying lice.

We then took a break after fishing down through Bridge pool and after lunch started again at Island run and top of rock and at 1pm I landed a 15lb bar of silver hen again liced.

1-40pm Phil had his third from top of rock a 16lb cock slightly coloured but again carrying lice.

That was seven between us and all were very powerful fish and when returned went off in a flash taking no time at all to recover which is great to see. We then had a fish back through Bridge seeing 3 fish jump but all tight to the far bank and then across to Gravel Catch where we saw more fish but didn't connect. Heading back to the car we couldn't resist one more quick go through Island and rock where we both hooked and lost another fish each after much cart wheeling about the pool.

Definitely a day to remember and nice to see a plan come together after much studying of forecasts and of where fish may have been and where they would run to given the water.

Cheers Andrew & Phil Kerwin

4 Salmon, 2 Trout

As Report for Andrew Kerwin plus one Shad of 2lb. A few more pics attached one showing what looked like Seal damage around both sides of the wrist.

3 Salmon, 1 Other