Feedback & Reports

Interested to see how one of my favourite beats has been reconfigured. Beat 4 now comprises half of the old lower beat and half of the old middle beat. Parked in the pull in next to the old mill which is situated in the middle of the beat. Then walked down to the lower limit and fished up, past my car and on to the upper limit. It actually makes a good beat with plenty of decent pools and a full day's fishing. Not as prolific as previous visits, just 3 chubby wbt of around 10". My fishing didn't do the new layout justice. We all have "those" days I guess!!

3 Trout

Tagged on this beat after fishing the new Escley 4 (which was good). Formally part of the upper Escley beat this is now a very short beat with lots of restricted areas. It's very disappointing. You can't fish half the water and there's very little to go at in the remaining 600 or so yards. You'd be very disappointed if you drove 190 miles for this! Managed 2 wbt but wouldn't return.

2 Trout

All on the dry best just under 2lb and returned safely. A nice spot to spend the afternoon.

8 Trout

The river was on the low side, but I managed a few fish to spider patterns. There were few fish rising despite sporadic hatches.

3 Trout, 1 Grayling

Had a lovely day on this beautiful beat , I had just driven up from London and had arrived in paradise , the level was good , nice warm day , lots of fly around, counted at least 5 different species , there was lots of hawthorn flies too , there were sporadic rises all day.
I fished dry right through the day using midge patterns , plume tips and even small mayfly patterns (Danica) .
There was a nagging down stream wind which hampered presentation but this was my first real dry fly fishing this season so I persisted. Probably would have connected with more fish on nymph in streamier water. Ended up with 5 good fish lost around the same number .
Lovely day .

5 Trout

Nil dabloon this time, never mind the fish gotta win some days lol just good to be out relaxing in a great place where you can just switch off and as Mr Schwarzenegger said I'll be back

Caught 4 fish between the 2 of us. Best fish was 2lb brown, others were all 1lb all returned.

4 Trout

lovely stretch of water what was fished, all trout between 8-14 inches and one grayling 8 inches. All was going ok as never fished this beat before until I exited the water at the fish farm. On getting back in the water above there was a herd of cows paddling in the stream and when I tried to walk around them they followed me up the stream lol. So only a third fished. there were plenty of olives and mayfly on the water with your regular midges also. Not many sizeable rises today so opted mainly to fish heads of pools to try and target larger trout on nymph. I feel if i had of managed to fish the rest of the beat icould of picked a fair few up on dry fly as above the fish farm the pace of water is much slower and does look good dry fly water

10 Trout, 1 Grayling

Salmon caught of fly from the Stones pool 12 lbs

1 Salmon

Early start. River in good order 0.68m and caring a nice colour. Both fished hard with double handlers. A fresh 10-12 lber showed on Rock a few times to keep us engaged. A fish of similar size showed under the cables. Another fine day in the countryside. Caught trout of 1lb and 1/2 lb on a feeler cascade (safely returned).Salmon unimpressed by our efforts.

2 Trout