Feedback & Reports

River clear and quite low. Slightly overcast with some light drizzle. 3 rods fishing 3 methods - dry fly, Duo and nymphs on a French leader. Single dry fly accounting for 7 trout around the 25 to 30cm mark.
2 to Duo, 1 to upstream nymph. Countless Salmon parr. All fish returned. Good to see a few Mayfly come off but fish were not particularly interested.
A difficult day and a bit of a puzzle. Conditions appeared to be ideal for a 20 fish a piece day but not to be. We'd not fished this beat in Summer before... Maybe this is more of a winter grayling venue? It's a fabulous stretch of river nonetheless.

10 Trout, 20 Other

5 Trout, 2 Grayling

5 Shad and 1 Trout - 4 Salmon showing in beat 4 and 6.

1 Trout, 5 Other

My companion rose but did not hook a nice fish, but otherwise the day was undisturbed by trout.

Very difficult, no trout to stalk at all. All fish returned.

2 Trout

6 small trout to 1/2 a pound, all on nymph.

6 Trout

Water level quite high. Kept having to get out of the river to progress, barbed wire played havoc with my waders. Lots of mayfly around midday. As a first experience of the Wild Stream permit it was a wonderful day out. Will return with a shorter rod.

1 Trout

Not even a knock all day.

Started in Rock Pool at 10am and fished until lunch with no result. 1 salmon showed in the pool just below the Chime. Started after lunch below the the bridge. M first had trout and then moved to steps just below the bridge and landed salmon of about 8lb on single hook yellow/gold FC. Easy and quick release with single hook. A tree has fallen on opposite bank and created a great lie between it and the rock in the centre of the river. I expect more fish to be caught in this spot. Water height .85m, slightly coloured.

1 Salmon, 1 Trout

Back for more and this time the conditions were perfect at about 0.8 metres on the gauge. I fly-fished down the Rock pool early in the morning and no fish although one jumped on the other side of the bridge. On the way down, I saw a tawny owl and also some baby wrens which was just fantastic.
Two more anglers joined me and were extremely helpful. I was once again given pointers and hints and this beat has now come alive for me. It's a great stretch of water. Although I did not catch a fish, one of the others had a 7lb salmon just by the sunken tree at the bridge. A lovely bar of silver! More fish were seen jumping throughout the stretch. I will be back for more!