Feedback & Reports

Arrived at 8am following a 3 hour drive, greeted with a temperature of -4. Cooked up some bacon rolls and headed down to the river. This is a really beautiful setting which added to the excitement. My second ever quest for grayling, last time I had 2 so I just wanted to better that. Tactics for the day would be trotting with the centrepin on a light action rod. I arrived at the first tempting spot (having waders would've made a lot more of the stretch accessible for me and will be my next investment) as I was setting up I started feeding some maggots, and first run through I was straight into a grayling, a nice fish getting towards 1lb and already I had a new personal best. Had 3 more small grayling and then the sun came through the clouds and it went quiet. I left my gear and had a walk down the stretch and found another tempting spot. I walked back for my gear, but as the sun had gone in I thought I'd have another try before I moved, and a great decision it turned out to be. Started catching instantly and then lost a couple of fish, 1 looked to be approaching 2lbs so I was gutted that the hook pulled by the net. Next run through I was into another good fish, and slipped the net under a huge grayling, approaching 3lbs. I couldn't have been happier. That swim went dead so I headed down the the other spot, and caught a small trout straight away. After stealing feeding, I managed to interest some grayling and had a number of fish, a couple well over 1lb. That went quiet so for the last hour I headed back to my original spot, had a few more small grayling, a 2lb trout and the last run through had another big grayling at 2lbs. Over the moon with my return. All fish put up a really good account of themselves, seen beautiful pink salmon jumping, had a robin for company all day and all of the dog walkers on the far bank were very pleasant. An all round perfect day, couldn't have wished for more. Can't wait for my next outing!

2 Trout, 16 Grayling

Cold morning river lower than expected and running clear.

3 Chub

Tried, Czech nymphing and wet flies. Good water conditions just very cold (river frozen at banks) after a mild spell I think.

8lb pike caught in margins on float, fished smelt no other runs fished dawn till dusk. Pete caught 2 chub in the morning and 2 as dark fell. River quite clear. Very enjoyable day. Will be back thanks WUF.

4 Chub, 1 Pike

Fished with Roger Smith of Malvern. Had a slow morning but got into the Grayling after lunch and had over 60 fish between us on maggot from Stone Catch. Biggest Grayling 16". River very low and clear. Cold day with blue skies and very light breeze. Work on access point much appreciated.

10 Trout, 60 Grayling

Fishing for pike. Nil caught. Shame as conditions seemed perfect. Many thanks to Terry Ward for advice beforehand. Beautiful beat.

I chose a guided day as I had not fished this area before and I wanted to see how the experts went about it. The river was clear and not too high. After an hour trotting with maggots we hadn't found the fish, so moved downstream where we found them. Caught a few grayling with trotting tackle, then switched to weighted flies on a short line which produced a couple of takes but none in the net. Oliver introduced me to a Tenkara rod, and this with an indicator and single maggot proved most effective. The grayling were from 6-15 inches and in fine condition, also one oos wbt. Thanks to Oliver Burch and WUF for a great day on this lovely beat.

27 Grayling

Wind,rain,sun. Hard going fish caught on fly and trotting but still a beautiful days fishing. Happy Christmas all.

3 Trout, 4 Grayling

River was very clear and it was cold. Fishing was hard with not much happening during the day. I covered all the area I could with deadbaits for not a sniff. My brother fished a maggot feeder with not much interest except a small trout. When it started to get dark I managed to avoid the blank with a double figure pike which fought hard and my brother managed a couple of decent chub up to 4 on cheese paste.

1 Trout, 2 Chub, 1 Pike

Dramatic stretch of water in a beautiful setting. The middle to lower section of the beat presented quite a challenge to a 64 year old with a bad knee but well worth the effort, just nice to be out and fishing in glorious late Autumn weather. 1 grayling caught around 2pm on sawyer killer bug.

1 Grayling