Feedback & Reports

A day filled with much hope at the start, river: perfect height, moderate amount of colour, but clearing with every passing hour & overcast. A full day fishing and no catch.. certainly made me question my approach considering another chap fishing, Connected with 5 fish landing 3 of them! A blank is one thing, but when there is a lot of action for another fisherman you do start to become confused! Great to meet both him and Chris, hopefully see them again soon.

too high to fish

First time on this stretch, tough day! River at a good level, but the weed is dying off & it caused problems! Fishing any further than a rod length out and you was reeling in within 2 min, due to heavy weed. If we fished a rod length out, we might have got 5min if lucky. Once we realised this was our only option we caught a few fish. Beautiful scenery! The hill is a killer in the rain, but kinda adds to the adventure!

3 Barbel, 7 Chub

Shared a rod with my son and despite torrential rain showers and strong gusty wind and low water levels spent a great afternoon with half a dozen wbt including two at 10 & 11 inches landed and released. Plenty of flylife- caddis and small olives even in the rain with plenty of rising fish in the deeper spots refusing elk hair sedge flies but immediately taking a para adams. Cowgates halfway up the beat in a serious state of disrepair but no sign of animal induced erosion as bank side fences either side are all intact and of good quality. Lots of leaf litter in the river more due to storms than autumn but it won't be long.

6 Trout

1 Sea Trout

Not to many hatches coming off the wind and rain did make conditions tricky, river height was a good level we did pick some rising fish with olives fish also taken on the french leader in the tail of the pools best 2 grayling close to 2lbs

2 Trout, 19 Grayling

Unfortunately I arrived too late in the day and decided not to fish.

2 Barbel

2 Trout

6 Barbel, 3 Chub