Feedback & Reports

Another good day of fishing, strong wind crossed with sun made for little surface activity. Water very low, clear despite being full and coloured the day before.
Lots of brownies, 4-5'' and some grayling, mostly on wet fly in fast corridors. Tried nymphing without much of luck, dry - the same...Biggest fish of the day grayling 12", brown trout 10".
NB. There is a new gate installed at second field, you need to go over as owner forgot to make it openable.

1 Trout, 1 Grayling

A poor day on the reservoir with only two caught on pop up and word was that there were no stock added that week - disappointing news if that was the case as there were quite a few anglers out. Water level very high making it difficult to get a spot due to overgrowth. Going to give it a miss for a week or so and see what feedback is before venturing back out.

2 Trout

Water levels were fine but gin clear. Tried a number of methods with the only fish being a 5lb Chub from Boys Rock Pool. Canoe traffic was very heavy.

1 Chub

Difficult day weather wise. 1 brown trout about 3/4 lb on a spoon near where the river enters, returned in excellent condition.

1 Trout

First visit of the season. Long drive but arrived at 6am fishing by 6:45am just as it started raining! And it rained until 4pm. First time I'd fished Foy Bridge. Small beat with only a few swims. Once it stopped raining and with the benefit of polaroid sunglasses, it was clear that probably only 3 swims that were really fishable. Barbel didn't want to play but if you fished for chub I'm sure you could really bag up. Lost three decent Barbel to the snags (and some of the swims are really snaggy). Access and parking are easy and most of the few swims have steps down to the waters edge.
Not a great day and the weather was miserable even when it stopped raining, but as per normal can't wait to get back.

1 Barbel, 6 Chub

Heavy rain for the entire morning made conditions difficult with plenty of weed being washed down river. I managed a couple of barbel to 8lb 10oz mid-afternoon once the rain stopped. Both fish came to pellet and from the upper end of the beat in deeper water.

2 Barbel

Nothing at all, not even a slight tap on the rod tip all day. Very disappointed.

Arrived on a very wet Friday morning, had a good walk before settling into a swim, I had intended to rotate between 3 or 4 spots but with the slippery banks decided to stay in one. Finished with 6 barbel on a mixture of pellet and 3 chub also on pellet. All barbel between 5-7lb. will return for another crack at this venue hopefully on a dry day.

6 Barbel, 3 Chub

Saw plenty of trout taking from the surface but didn't get a sniff of a salmon. A great day out all the same.

Fished 2 swims, from about lunchtime to early evening. 1 chub and 2 barbel caught, all from pellet and feeder cast to overhanging bushes on the far side. Nice stretch of water in great surroundings. Thanks WUF.

2 Barbel, 1 Chub