Feedback & Reports

Perfect conditions (water, weather, hatching fly) but almost no fish showing, even in the most tantalising of spots. A complete blank!

Very difficult due to overhanging trees.

The other angler was my friend O M and he will make separate return. Really disappointing. Looked very promising. Loads of fly life BUT saw not a single rise and caught not a single fish!!
Maybe lots of reasons of course - Were we too early in the day? Fished from about 9.30a.m. Tried all sorts - so after a few hours we gave up and drove home.

Arrived at 10 am. Overcast, cool, very windy. Fished only bellow the weir. Both fish take on a wurm style tungston jig hook with rubber legs size 16. 10 ins & 5ins. Good condition. Released ok.

2 Trout

First time on this beat and was impressed. Very nice area to fish. Now that's out the way to the fishing.. rain, sunshine, then the most horrendous downstream wind made my three weight almost impossible to use. 6 of the eight fish came in the first hour to size 18 f -fly then the wind strengthened. As I could not turn my fly over nymphed heads of pools picking off another two and decided to call it a day. Lovely beat, shame wind ruined catch return.

8 Trout

All seemed set for an excellent day - warm, some sun, good flow in the river, lots of varied flies out, birds singing, bluebells blooming etc. The trout were not told! Tried every method, saw only 4 rises and caught 2 of them at 9" but that was it. Frustrating (and humbling), but a nice day in the country. Two of the pools are now unfishable with fallen trees etc.

2 Trout

Excellent day, (thanks to the WUF person who recommended this beat - I should have got your name) this was a great beat with some lovely pools in beautiful surroundings. We had 10 WBT, best were 3 to around 1 1/2 lbs. We also spotted and cast to a few of over 2 lbs. The day was more like an April day with sun, clouds and showers, but consistently very windy. The upper wooded section tucked down in a valley provided respite from the wind, and was great to fish. A great day on the river.

10 Trout

River in excellent shape - falling and clearing. Caught a specimen brown trout of 3 1/2 lbs on a size 10 single hook cascade (returned). Thought it was a salmon... Lots of fly life into the evening, so put on a scruffy klink - and caught and lost a handful of fine trout.

4 Trout

Nothing to report.

Plenty of flies coming off but no sign of any fish.