Feedback & Reports

2 Trout

Fished from Maddox down to Vanstone with 1" tube with no offers then again spinning with red flying C and hooked a 9lb Pike. Fished again on Friday in bright sunshine with no offers. Decided to call it a day at 14.00. Great beat will fish again.

1 Pike

Difficult day for trout. Cold, with a strong downstream wind. 0.95m on EA Erwood gauge, which made the gutters on the bottom part of the beat difficult to fish. Only a few flies about, including one or two March Browns and even a few Hawthorns. Only seen a handful of rises all day. Stuck to nymphs and spiders. Two of us managed 8 trout between 7 and 13", mostly from the top section of the upper beat (Orchard), which is a nice bit of water.

8 Trout

Fly - No 10 GP on a 5ft fast sink tip. Blue rapala. River in good condition, clear, about 1-6.

Perfect conditions, a few olives emerging, all fish taken on CDC emerger. Lovely stretch of river.

3 Trout

River a bit high. Fly only. Met beat owner, very nice guy. Lovely beat, will be back.

A lovely, easily accessible beat (for 4x4s) with parking at the riverside.
I fished for trout on a dry, overcast day with a very chilly wind. I only had a salmon parr (using a PTN) to show for my efforts. There were fish rising at the car park pool but, frustratingly, I couldn't present a dry fly properly due to the wind direction.
I'd like to have another crack at this beat on a warmer, less windy day

1 Other

Water noticeably lower, slower and less coloured than on Monday but nothing seen.

Not the warmest of April days. Allocated the top beat in the morning. I must admit I find the very deep gutters and pools on this stretch difficult to fish unless fish are on the surface, which they weren’t. However, there is a nice riffle at the top which can provide a good couple of hours fishing, usually productive, but not on this occasion.
Switched to the bottom beat around 2 ish, caught an 8oz fish, followed by a 12oz fish, both in the faster water on a gold beaded nymph. Quite cold by now, so thinking about the long drive back to Kent, at which point I hooked a very nice fish 2½ to 3 LB. took me about 20 minutes to get it in. In attempting to carry the fish back out to the faster water to revive it, I slipped on a rock and took a dip. Decided to call it a day.
The odd fly coming off but nothing that could be described as a hatch.

3 Trout

Near perfect day. River level very good, wind southerly, birds singing, flowers flowering, flies hatching, trout rising (well a few anyway). Best fly, GRHE nymph. But a dry Kites Imperial got one on the surface when there were a few Large Dark Olives about.

4 Trout