Feedback & Reports

Had a lovely and very sociable day on the riverbank at the kind (as ever) invitation of owner. River was at 0.9m, reasonable colour but rising slowly. Saw approximately 8 salmon on the day, all runners I suspect.
They completely ignored the offerings of 6 competent salmon anglers till the curtain came down on another season frustratingly soon. Just 2 feisty 1lb trout caught. Best wishes to every one. See you next year.

2 Trout

Unusually, hard days fishing. Fished for 8 hrs, 1 rainbow, 1.5 lbs caught on pop up worm. Also tried bubble spinner and lures. Plenty of fish on surface but too far out for fly fishing off the bank. Weather - showers, heavy at times but warm for autumn.

1 Trout

Tough day on a great looking beat. We started on the upper beat on the first peg by the orchard, It looked fantastic, good colour, good level, pushing through a bit though. Stayed there for a couple of hours, to our amazement nothing caught. We moved upstream into the woods and found a couple of fishable areas. G W caught 2 chub about 4lb each, K W caught 1 chub about 3lb. We moved back down to the orchard and K W caught 1 more chub, about 3lb.
There are not too many pegs on the upper stretch. Next visit I will go to the lower beat and will hopefully do better. Lovely beat, fantastic wildlife.

4 Chub

A few fish seen but not caught!

Enjoyable day but river still needs a good flush through.

7 Barbel

3 stock rainbow trout taken on worm all nice fish in good condition!

3 Trout

Conditions good, fished from 8:00am to 18:30pm. Four of us on this stretch ,we mainly fished two swims on the meadow and the other two anglers moved around more from the woods to the meadow. Unfortunately no fish. As always a beautiful place to fish but not so lucky this time. All were using feeder tactics with various hook bait, maybe a change in method needed for next visit.

First swim only produced chub. Wanted barbel so changed swim early afternoon. Hooked 4 barbel in an hour, lost one. Next cast started getting weed hitting my line, river started to rise and barbel completely switched off, then continued to catch chub down the inside. Bit disappointing that the conditions changed and stopped me bagging up on barbel. Second time on this beat for me and it was mostly chub last time too. Lovely beat with good flat banks, very safe in wet conditions.

3 Barbel, 18 Chub

Water was high and rather coloured but otherwise quite fishable. Had one 1lb trout (returned) and together with an otter watched a solitary salmon porpoise its way upstream, hopefully to be followed over the next few weeks by many more fish.

1 Trout

River looked perfect, but we struggled in all the normal swims. Better luck next time....

2 Barbel, 10 Chub