Feedback & Reports

A cold spring day, no rain, river quite high and fast running. Arrived about 11am initially double nympthing PTN and GRHE on point both size 16. After a quiet start I caught 1 x 10" WBT on GRHE. Early afternoon there was a good hatch of March Browns and I changed to dry fly March Brown and caught another similar size WBT. Unfortunately I lost a few (a bit rusty on the take). During the hatch I saw plenty of fish coming to the surface. An excellent beat.

2 Trout

River high, but was to be expected. No fish caught but one fish seen in the Maddox

Arrived at 1pm, sparse intermittent hatch of large dark olives, fish rising without any real feeding pattern, all fish caught on a dry fly

5 Trout

Despite little rain the river continued to maintain its height at about 0.9 metres on the gauge, but was clear. Why can't we get this water in May when there are some tourists about!
There was a brief hatch of LDO'S with the first grannom of the season although march browns seemed absent that day.
Using a mixture of weighted nymphs, spiders and dry jinglers I got 5 nice fish up to about 1.5lbs.
There were few fish moving and the only rises I saw were on the more placid stretches of water.

5 Trout

Nice water, a few fish rising around lunch, no march browns which was odd.

2 Trout

2 Trout

Nil Return

8 Trout

Spent the morning spinning Home Catch but only 1 small brownie caught. Was useful to use the boat as this allowed access to many pools which were tricky fishing from muddy banks. Moved down to above the waterworks late afternoon and fished the fly but still no joy.

1 Trout