Feedback & Reports

1 Trout

3 people fishing. Started at 8am and didn't have a touch until 4:30. Tried fly, spin, worm on surface and worm on bottom. At 4:30, hit a purple patch and had 6 fish between us. Partly made up for a poor day. As always, it was peaceful and the scenery is great but for the price of the ticket the fishing was a bit slow.

6 Trout

Whilst no salmon were caught several were seen running up stream. Fished both fly and spin. Water level relatively high and coloured from recent rain. Overall an excellent experience.

Beautiful day, clear and sunny. Water was unexpectedly high and trout as shy as usual. Good hatch of blue/green duns in late afternoon. Few fish on dry, rest nymph.

8 Trout

Fished for about four hours, spectacular place to fish but water very low and had to contend with windy, damp conditions. Caught one small wild Carp about 1lb 8oz.

Fantastic day's fishing. Overcast with a little colour in the water. Fish caught on 8mm pellets.

6 Barbel, 3 Chub

4 fish caught

4 Trout

Water 0.78 and rising. Some colour so opted to spin.
John was first to contact a salmon fishing at the stair stage. The fish took a yellow FC but immediately surfaced, rolled and detached.
I changed to a yellow from red FC and hooked and landed a 9lb cock fish from the hole level with the sill above the rock. As the fish was landed another showed in the same spot.
These fish were moving and coincided with high tide 2.5 hours earlier. From then on the water rose throughout the evening. John Phillips accepted my invitation to fish but only contacted a 10 inch trout on the fly. When he left the river was almost .9m
Another successful day!! Up to 5 salmon for the season.

1 Salmon

Nice day river up a little but not coloured. Barbel caught regularly from 12:00 until 8:00 pm, but only in one swim.

11 Barbel

No Joy. Fish seen at the head of the "V" and on the bend at the end of Maddox (big one) but just one knock to show for an afternoon / evenings effort on the fly. Fish were grubby brown things so long term residents, and I suspect the fact I couldn't see bottom when wading to just above the knee meant nothing was going to chase a fly it couldn't see.
Happy way to spend my 50th birthday though