Feedback & Reports

First time here for me and a corker of a river here. Even the car parking is very good , tucked out of the way and quiet and peaceful with a super view down the valley.
Right from the first pool I was getting takes to a 14 para adams fished speculatively. The third pool up with a very nice run in to it had quite a good lot of fish showing on top. The back markers where having me at it, being the small guys and shaking themselves off (note to self ...softer action rod needed next time out) but working up to the head the larger chaps where staying on. Stunning fish, fat and healthy!
From then on up there was at the very least one fish in each run or pool and it is a series of these one after the other and fairly easy going. The bigger pools had a good few fish in them it seems.
All the fish where in super condition (8" to 12") and are quite the scrappers considering a fair bit of the water is fairly sedate in flow.
The Adams accounted for them all and lots of smaller fish having a go at it but the better sized fish where nailing the fly properly. I can live with that!
A small amount of varied fly coming off here and there and the rocks and stones where they where clean where crawling with bugs and micro caddis cases.
A pair of Kingfishers where whizzing up and down all afternoon. Stunning.
I didn't get time to do the whole beat, maybe a third of it but will be back for more for sure and am looking forward to that.
A cracking beat, don't know how this one had not got on my radar before now !

8 Trout

4 Barbel, 1 Chub

10 Barbel, 2 Chub

A bright day on a lovely stretch of river with many features further upstream. Levels fairly low and few fish rising. Fished dries and nymphs with no success. A nice walk through the woods.

River very low and few fish showing. Two fish taken on size 18 black midge.

2 Trout

3 Trout

Conditions perfect and plenty of fly life, but a lack of fish. All fish taken on small caddis pupa imitation. Fish between 10 and 14".

5 Trout

Beautiful part of the river. Feeder and float used. I caught 40 chub and two barbel the first day, 35 chub and 5 barbel the next. My friend caught the rest. The hill is a killer.

14 Barbel, 103 Chub

First time on the Dee and loved it. Fished Bishops Run and had 4 x Browns on flashback nymph up to 2lbs. Overcast and a bit windy.

4 Trout

Came back to the Church Stream Pool for the second day. Caught a few chub to 4 lb from the start at 9 am, then the wind got up bringing a very large branch crashing down into the water. This made stately passage through the swim and killed action for a while. Like the previous day, the barbel took a while to appear, finally arriving at 12.30. Then caught 5 on pretty much consecutive casts (only interrupted by a chub between barbel nos 3 and 4. The biggest was a nice fish of 8 1/2 lb. Moved upstream to the Church field for the final couple of hours, where had a bite a chuck fishing across towards the far bank - every one a chub. Lost a few in the weed, but ended up with a dozen from this spot. All fish took 11 or 12 mm pellets, even an 8 oz tiddler. This beat certainly produces fish, but beware of the steep banks if you are not that agile.

5 Barbel, 20 Chub