Feedback & Reports

Lovely day. Warm and sunny and water 9 degrees C. A mini LDO hatch at about 11am - 13:00. Some fish rising. Landed one nice trout although in poor condition following the sustained high flows. I suspect he floods have scoured out the invertebrates a little resulting in a bit less fly life around than usual, but I have no doubt the river will recovery quickly and flooding is vital natural process in any case with many benefits to the river. The trout caught was on a CDC dry fly dun - saw him rise and then woomph! Great to be back on the water and what a magnificent river!

1 Trout

First fishing day of the season and great to wet a line. Tried heavy weighted nymphs ie hare's ear & pheasant tail nymph with a team of spiders to no avail. On the moments the sun came out also tried an up stream dry such as a klinkhammer but no takers. No bites all day. Nevertheless it was a bright and sunny Spring day.

Nothing seen or caught.

Two nice brownies, the biggest about a pound caught on a gold head hare's ear. The river was running clear and a few fish were rising to the dry. A very enjoyable morning.

2 Trout

Superb conditions, 1 kelt on beat 2. Nothing seen other than that. Coarse fishing seems slow also perhaps the spawning is early this year?

1 Other

Many thanks to owner Barry for the invitation today. A fine spring day after the fog cleared, but I drew a blank for salmon unfortunately. I did briefly shake hands with something which felt more deliberate than a trout, but a couple of head shakes and it was off. After lunch I was able to watch a brief but intense hatch of march browns and some explosive rises from trout in response. As, in my wisdom, I had brought no trout tackle in the car, it was indeed a matter of just sitting on the bank and watching.

Landed two 6lb plus barbel and lost one by 10.30am so thought I was in for a better day than the one before but no bites for the rest of the day. Over the 2 days the feeding spells were very short, morning and last hour only.

2 Barbel

Fished Legg Meadow and caught two 8lb barbel on pellet and boilies.

2 Barbel

Began at 11am. Caught first fish within 10 mins on size 10 Damsel nymph(Floating line with 5ft intermediate tip). Wind picked up causing a strong in shore wave and things went quiet. Changed to intermediate line after lunch and bagged up within an hour. All fish taken on Damsel nymph. No surface activity.
It's a shame that the wormers hogg the same spot all day.
They should be allocated a smaller section of water in my opinion. Makes fly fishing amongst them very difficult!

4 Trout

River was at a good height with good clarity, saw 5 salmon show, 3 were leaping high from the water so may have been kelts. Saw 2 others in different places head and tail quietly but could not tempt them, despite my efforts. Had 2 pike on rapala, one of which was around 30lb and leapt from the river twice, the other around 10lb,
Thanks to the WUF, in particular Seth for sorting out the locked gate.

2 Pike