Feedback & Reports

Caught 4 barbel (between 6 & 8lb) and 3 chub including one of 6lb 1oz on pellet feeder. Fish came between 10am and 1pm with a couple in last half an hour.

4 Barbel, 3 Chub

Lost 20lb+ fish on F/C after 2 min of fight. Gutted.

10 Trout

Nothing caught. Two or three fish rose on the lower flats to some dark olives for about half an hour around lunchtime and I am afraid I left an Imperial in one. Rather clumsy.

Lovely beat to fish. All the barbel came in one swim, but there are so many swims to choose from and they all look productive.

13 Barbel, 4 Chub

Drizzle in the morning, brief sunshine in the afternoon and a chill wind. River was slightly coloured but looked fine. Saw perhaps half a dozen upwings come off the water around 1pm, but didn't spot any trout.
Fished nymphs without luck and wrapped up just before 3pm as I started to get a little cold. Despite the chill, a really beautiful spot and always enjoyable to spend a few hours in peace listening to the sounds of the river.
Most exciting moment of the day was while changing flies standing in the tail of the pool just upstream of the bridge. A cormorant that had clearly submerged itself a long way upstream suddenly surfaced a couple metres in front of me and took off in a panic. I nearly had a heart attack.

A grey day brightened by the capture of seven year old daughter Scarlett's first trout. Ten inches of speckled olive and built like an eel! I chipped in late in the day with a nice grayling.

1 Trout, 1 Grayling

4 Trout

A gusty downstream wind with calmer conditions from about 3pm at which time the sun made a welcome appearance. Fished weighted nymphs with a touch of red.

1 Trout, 2 Grayling

FIRST SALMON ON THE HADAA TODAY 11.40AM 13LB ON A MEPP SHAUN WATKINS

1 Salmon

All started off well trotting maggot and in first ten minutes landed a clonker of about 5 pound. Then the wind picked up and played havoc with my centrepin so decided to switch to feeder. Did not get a nibble for about two hours then found a lovely looking spot. Fish came every cast for an hour or two. Smallest was 2 pound, all the rest between 2-3 pounds, a lovely beat with a good number of chub. I lost 2 or 3 and got smashed by 2 fish which were very heavy.

10 Chub