Feedback & Reports

Not sure why this fantastic beat isn't fished more. Although there wasn't much water flowing through the river there is still masses of good water in the Escley, long slow deep glides and plenty of good pools. There are also some BIG fish here. I was standing in one stretch just waiting for a particular fish to rise again, and a fish a good foot and a half long very casually swam past me. So, a great day. Took most fish on a small DHE and sedge. There wasn't much fly life about but enough fish rising to keep the day interesting.

10 Trout

Couldn't seem to get any takes even though we tried all likely spots.

Perfect conditions but not a touch all day.

Very quiet, a few very small rising - limited time on water to 3 hours due to another commitment also very early AM so not unusual to see limited action - not fish caught had 2 come to dry fly but very small fish turn away at last moment.

A great day on this stretch of river. Started 0700 hrs found fish @ 1200 hrs then caught till 1530hrs when sun came out & they stopped feeding immediately. Barbel 8lb-2oz & 8lb-7oz, Chub around 4lb-8oz. Trout was a shock on boilie! Thanks to Mr Richards who probably saved me from a coronary with the taxi ride to the river. 1 mink spotted opposite bank.

1 Trout, 2 Barbel, 3 Chub

River low and clear. Only fished 8am til 2pm due to other plans (someone was getting married). Fished the lower end of the beat. First cast on pellet feeder - 8lb barbel. Second cast - 8lb barbel. Then it went quiet.
Decided to change to Wagler with carp pellets and had plenty of chub to 4lb, then it went quiet again. Back on the feeder I had one more barbel 7lb and some chub to 4lb.
Back on the float with meat the chub were feeding well. Over 20 chub caught but I lost count.
Great few hours spent on a fanatastic beat. Had a quick chat with Colin but I was running late and had to leave.
Can't wait until next time. Thanks wuf.

3 Barbel, 20 Chub

Lots of reports from visiting coarse and trout anglers of salmon showing throughout the beats. Visitors fishing the house rods for salmon drew blanks on Saturday but again reported seeing plenty of fish. These I think are resident fish which have been stuck in the pools for some time. More fresh water will help.

Matt Tricks caught a 10lb salmon at the Nyth in the General pool.

1 Salmon

Kayaks every 10 minutes. A waste of time, nil caught.

Odd fish were rising sporadically through the day. I managed to miss about 8 of them, and caught just one. I felt they wanted small emergers but fishing them was difficult because persistent rain disturbing the surface made sighting the fly hard - my excuse anyway.

1 Trout