Feedback & Reports

Second visit this year and can't fault this beat. Water high but no problem with access. Took a couple of dunkings even though I had studs soles and a wadding stick. Didn't spoil the day as had three WBT 8 inch - polish nymphing with weighted black PTN on point and Red-tag on the dropper. Had plenty of misses and one that nearly pulled me, resulting in my GRHE being completely stripped.

3 Trout

Four hours of kneeling down and side casting produced 3 wbt of five to eight inches to the Griffiths gnat. Retired aching to the Seven Stars and lubricated with a few fine pints of " Butty". All in all another enjoyable three days on the wild streams, thanks WUF.

3 Trout

Misty start to the day with no fish rising. Decided to fish the duo and contacted and lost 3 fish in the first ten minutes. No being to disappointed I carried on and took 5 fish to 14" over the next few hours. A few missed on both flies, but an enjoyable day.

5 Trout

2 Trout

Another fantastic day fishing. I was really surprised by the size of the fish caught, all fish were caught on a GRHE nymph between 12"-14" except one which was 18". Wading in some places can be extremely tricky and would highly advise a wading staff as I had a nice dip couple of times. I saw two canoeist on the river and did a runner as soon as they saw me. Lovely beat with lots of features and a cracking backdrop. I will definitely come back again.

10 Trout

Five fish caught, all on a nymph suspended under a Klinkhammer. Six fish also lost. Two really nice fish at 8 to 10 inches, especially on a 6 foot 2 weight rod. Access quite difficult into sections due to barbed wire fencing. Walk to the very bottom of the beat and there is a wooden stile where much easier to gain access.

5 Trout

Lovely day, wonderful surroundings, will visit beat again for certain, quite hard work,we fished from 9-30 am till dark and had all the fish on groundbait and pellet in the feeder with 14mm pellet hookbait.

11 Barbel, 10 Chub, 1 Other

Beautiful beat with excellent access. Fished the field upstream of the car parking spot. Downstream would be much harder to access. We had action throughout the day with barbel from 3 to 8lb plus a couple of chub around a pound and a half. One of the latter was seen bashing fry and was caught on a small silver lure. 5 fish each but the padawan beat the master by almost 7 pounds. Usual tactics of pellets or similar behind a feeder.

8 Barbel, 2 Chub

Both caught barbel and chub but a slightly frustrating day. Raps on the rod tip in every swim we fished which rarely came to anything positive and I suspect were from small chub. With a different approach I'm sure you could have really good day on the float on this beat.

6 Barbel, 3 Chub

Beautiful fishing and stunning surroundings. Will be back again.

12 Chub