Feedback & Reports

Fresh 5-6lbs hen fish on a Silver Doctor.

1 Salmon

Fished for salmon initially from top run through the rockpool to the chine with no takes using a cascade pattern brass tube and intermediate line. Water level steady at .61m. Not much rise of trout through the afternoon. Switched to a team of spiders for trout from 4.30 in woodstream landing 3 trout of around half pound all on partridge and orange spider. Switched from nymph on point to sparsely tied March Brown spider. Immediately into a big trout which jumped clear several times before tearing off line. Looked silvery so prepared for a battle. Took 20 minutes to land what turned out to be a 2 lb seatrout. A good day!!

3 Trout, 1 Sea Trout

New rod thanks Sportsfish! Weather cool, windy and dry, and low clear water. Late morning and no hatch to speak of. Nymphed down stream with a few knocks but no fish. Again use of the soft hackle CDC in all water types ( Thanks Jon) brought all fish to the net - best at 11 inches. Fished early afternoon and noticed sperodic hatch of olive with a few rises.
As I left two optimistic anglers paying no attention to me began prospecting??

6 Trout

Fished over lunchtime. River was very low, and all the pools in which I have caught fish here in past years were showing their bottom. Lots of fly life, and a few mayfly, but no rises.

No salmon for me today..

2 Trout

2 brown trout about 12oz on gold head pheasant tail and klinkhammer. Lovely mayfly hatch but no joy with nymph or dry versions. Few fish obviously rising.

2 Trout

My first visit to this very attractive stretch of the river Lugg. Plenty of fly life around including mayflies though only sporadic rises from the fish.
Three OOS grayling on beadhead GRHE followed by four trout of which three were on a weighted spider with the last rising to an olive coloured F fly.

4 Trout, 3 Grayling

Under the expert tutelage of Oliver Burch, we caught about 15 trout up to 15" on spiders and Czech nymph. There was virtually no hatch, plus a cool north wind, making dry fly pretty hopeless, though the (often quite visible) fish were clearly nymphing. A varied and extensive beat evidently full of fish (including one salmon seen jumping).

15 Trout

Fine sunny day with light breeze. Fished NE shore. 3 x 2.5 - 3lb rainbows caught on small gold head damsel and floating line. One 3lb rainbow caught on small mepps. A good day in fine visibility.

4 Trout