Feedback & Reports

This was a lovely hot Bank Holiday Monday. It's a beautiful stretch of river. The fishing wasn't easy in the heat of the day but during the evening the fish were more receptive and four trout in total. Frustratingly at times, the well tended private stretch was popular with dog walkers and swimming parties. Perhaps it was just because it was a Bank Holiday.

4 Trout

Water 0.63m and clear. Fished through rock and woodstream for salmon with no takes. No fish seen.
11am till 1pm fished the rock downwards with a team of 2 subsurface and landed a fish of 3/4lb. A few rising and reverted to a dry dark olive and landed another of same weight. Both returned.

2 Trout

Weather sunny, river at summer level. Fished mid morning until about 2:00pm. Sporadic hatch and rise when I arrived. Caught two on dry fly. Everything went to sleep after 1:30pm.

2 Trout

12 x trout 6-9 inches on a small brown Klinkhammer. You wouldn't believe how many I missed. Spring, it seems, has finally properly arrived and trout now rising or, which is nearly as good, prepared to rise.
Incidentally, apologies if yesterday's report on Aramstone salmon fishing arrived scrambled. I was editing text, doubtless of an over-long account as usual, and it suddenly disappeared from the screen. Long story short, I got one.

12 Trout

lovely morning session for 2 pristine common carp of 13lb 4oz and 12lb 8oz. Looks like the lake has finally woken up with the better weather this weekend.

2 Other

Cracking beat, plenty of fly on the water, midges, olives, sedge, cranefly but sadly minimal rising fish. Managed to connect to three one of 1.5lb one of 1lb and the third a wee specimen of 7 inches rose two others lost the one and missed the take on the other.

3 Trout

Just one 8 inch brownie that took a Greenwell's Glory. Only rose one other but struck too late (or maybe too soon!). Saw a few fish so felt I should have had one or two more on this beautiful beat. Found the bedrock and gravel dangerously slippery, maybe should have taken felt soled boots rather than the so-called 'sticky rubber' ones.

1 Trout

Warm southerly wind and the Cuckoo in full song - what a difference a week makes! Fish taken on GRHE and GB GRHE and 3 on dries (olive Klink and Sedge pattern). Mostly 6-8oz but one just over 1 lb kept. Lovely day and the valley and black mountains looked superb on the way home.

8 Trout

Just trout. Fishing made very difficult as the owners of beat had heavy machinery working on the edge of the river throughout the day; fish not that keen on JCBs. Upside is that access to the river will be improved along the short section worked on.

1 Trout

Couple of small brownies on nymphs, both returned.

2 Trout