Feedback & Reports

Waters in perfect conditions. Beautiful and very secluded area. No rain but windy morning. Unfortunately very few grayling seen, none caught. Trout were nice size been most around 28-32cm and one 41cm (approx 16 inches), half of them with small nymph on a tandem and half on dry small olive ephemera when raising in the evening when wind calmed down.
First time to fish the beat and unfortunately only fished the lower part of the beat with very still and slow currents. I visited later the upper part and seem more varied water.

9 Trout

17 x grayling 10-15 inches, 5 x out of season trout 9-14 inches. A slow morning after a cold misty start and, although pale wateries were hatching, nothing was rising. Use of a team of nymphs only produced unwanted trout. However, things livened up after about 1 o'clock and the grayling, mostly in the 12-14 inch range, were all taken during the afternoon on a dry Grayling Steel Blue. This part of the valley looks absolutely gorgeous in the sunshine at the moment - wonderful colours.

17 Grayling

Great few hours fishing. 3 nice grayling to dry fly.

3 Grayling

11lb and 16lb coloured cock on the fly for Ed Brown at Bigsweir this morning 9.30 and 11.45am

2 Salmon

River flowing well and coloured after rain early in week. 4 small barbel up to a couple of pounds caught within an hour in mid-afternoon. After that nothing before it got dark.

4 Barbel

At 9.00 the sun was just breaking through the dense mist on the tops of the hills where I live and the thermometer was showing a chilly 3 degrees.
Instinct said leave it an hour before making the 20min drive to the river but eagerness got the better of me.....mistake! It stayed misty and cold down in the valley until midday and by that time after standing in cold water casting to nothing for two hours I was freezing.....
Around 1pm the sun broke through and flies began to appear followed by sporadic but determined splashy rises. I was trying to target only grayling and the rising fish looked like trout so I fished subsurface until in frustration I decided to move to drys and took 2 trout on barbless Tupps, both around 12" Moving upstream and in a shallow pool came another similar size trout followed by rejection after rejection of the different dries I was trying. Swapped to a gold bead Copper John and came two nice grayling again around the 12" mark. Interesting was the total lack of action in the deep pools. Fished till 6pm.....Btw the banks are a jungle of Himalayan balsam ...make sure you find your way out before it gets dark!!!

3 Trout, 2 Grayling

Had 3 chub on meat to approx 4lb. First cast lost big fish (probably a big barbel).

3 Chub

Great days sport. Barbel caught from top meadow and from woods. All in 6-8lb bracket. Feeder tactics with pellets proved successful.

18 Barbel, 16 Chub

Had a great day fishing on the open end feeder. Had bites pretty much all day. Chub were all around the 3lb mark and biggest Barbel was about 6lb. River conditions were fine - no weed or leaves coming downstream.

4 Barbel, 3 Chub

Enjoyable day but not a single bite on worm, no fish rising, weather misty to start then warm and clear skys