Feedback & Reports

A cold and frosty start with the sun appearing throughout the day. Fished duo during the morning resulting in 4 Grayling between 10 and 13 inches, all coming to # 16 nymphs fished close to the bottom and in the tail of the 2nd pool. Moved up to the big pool and struggled to find one 12” Trout to a nymph and one more small grayling to a # 16 Griffiths gnat at the tail of the pool. Notably a Gray Duster was capsized by a salmon which seemed to be holding station in shallow water and which appeared again later.

1 Trout, 5 Grayling

Arrived at freezing river conditions, plus low clear water. But still managed 7 nice chub on bread.
To cold for barbel ! Very enjoyable.

7 Chub

Tricky day, everything felt just right but I struggled to find the fish. Fantastic beat.

5 Grayling

2 Trout

The river is still low but clear. Despite the persistent rain it fished pretty well. There were a lot of tiny grayling willing to take a fly and a few of their bigger brothers, including a double header. Successful flies were a gold bead ptn and a shrimp pattern.

1 Trout, 17 Grayling

All the fish to CG in the lower wooded area, CS tried 3 pegs in the upper length without any fish to show for his efforts.

4 Barbel, 3 Chub

A nice bright frosty morning so had a couple of hours on the Arrow. Slow going until I found a small shoal of Grayling where I caught 5 in quick succession including a nice fish of 16 inches. All the rest 8 to 10 inches and caught on a shrimp pattern.

3 Trout, 6 Grayling

6 barbel between 2 rods a good return considering the day started at -2c with a heavy frost and the the mist from the river swirling. Usual method of pellet feeder with either pellet or boilie on the hook

6 Barbel

One Barbel for 6lb and a personal best Chub at 5lb 1oz so not the worst day ever

1 Barbel, 1 Chub