Feedback & Reports

A frustrating day: double digit missed takes on the dry, inordinate tangles, leaky waders... It had all seemed so promising at the beginning - this has always been a productive beat before - but maybe the trout were so shell-shocked by the rare seasonal weather they were following the lead of the locals on the far bank by the canal, and sun-bathing too! Fish caught up to 1/2 lb on upstream nymph and klinkhammer.

4 Trout

A beautiful day with plenty of sun and light winds. Water was clear and low with wading fairly straightforward for the most part.
Fished from 11am - 7pm. A reasonable trickle of fly life carried on all day but perhaps it was too bright for most of the trout? Grayling were certainly active and sipping on the surface. We had eight between us, the smallest at 6 inches (on a size 12 sedge) and the largest at 15 inches (on a size 20 cdc olive). This was the first time either of us had seen grayling so, unused to the rather delicate takes, we missed at least another dozen. No success on the nymph until we tried it New Zealand stlye, then we saw the takes. Didn't feel a single one, but certainly saw the dry fly dunked.
One lovely 8 inch wbt was caught around 2pm on a cdc olive dun in the margins.
Surface activity died off around 5.30pm but the water seemed to come alive with rises just after 7pm as soon as I'd removed my waders...
All fish caught on cdc olives, cdc sedge, cillabaetis comparadun, soft hackle PTN with and without beadhead, fished upstream.
A lovely day.

1 Trout, 8 Grayling

A very slow day! No luck although I understand that numerous fish were caught. Tomorrow is another day! Regards!

Very enjoyable. Mayfly out, but saw no fish 17:00 to 20:00.

We were fishing with weighted nymph/wetflies. The trout we caught were small (largest 8ozs), we also a caught a couple of very small fish (still with parr markings) not included in total. Biggest grayling about 1lb. River condition was very good.

4 Trout, 4 Grayling

12 Trout

7 Trout

The river was very low and clear with bright sunlight, very little evidence of surface activity. Lots of fallen trees and overhanging branches to negotiate. All fish (small)returned.

5 Trout

Another good day of hatches producing active fly life which produced a number of juvenile trout and grayling. Mostly taken on emerger patterns.

4 Trout, 4 Grayling

A beautiful river and, on this occasion superb conditions however, despite seeing a number of large trout in the crystal clear water, none could be tempted by dry flies or nymphs. Indeed there seemed to be very little feeding activity all day despite numerous mayfly hatches and swarms of smaller flies near the surface. Suspect this would be good grayling water later in the year.