Feedback & Reports

A still, cloudy autumn day with the Cilmery guage at 0.43m. Very little fly, apart from a few small olives, and hardly a rise. Had taken six grayling in peaceful tranquility until early afternoon, and then nothing. Might it just be possible that that might have had anything at all to do with the disturbance caused by the slow passage, and then the stopping, of six large trespassing canoes, complete with noisy youngsters and their leaders, that appeared at that time? Grayling all from 14-17" and all bar one taken on a small, dark olive emerger. The other taken bugging on a flashback PTN and it weighed nearly 2.25lb. Where are the smaller fish these days? Hiding from canoes maybe! Went home earlier than intended - I can't imagine why!

6 Grayling

A difficult day on what is usually a far more predictable beat at this time of year. Little fly life and few fish rising, All fish taken on dry. A beginners session with the salmon road but as no silver tourists seen to offer encouragement stuck to trouting!
2 other rods coming off the water when we arrived may not have helped....

2 Trout, 4 Grayling

Arrived at dawn and once again I headed to the lower pool on the road bank. Fished elips pellet hookbait with groundbait feeder tactics about a 1/3 across and apart from a slow start, from 10.45 onwards I had regular bites all day until I packed away at 7.40pm. Lost one barbel and one chub as well so 14 bites from one swim while my companion had one of each as well. So a good day, I'll be back!

4 Barbel, 8 Chub

River low, on the feeder-mag and pellet. Small chub and silvers all day.

3 Chub, 30 Other

Arrived around midday and was surprised to find this popular beat free. River low and slow with most fish easily spooked. But I took four with a weighted nymph, the best around 10 inches.

4 Trout

Found the river with a bit more flow than a couple of weeks ago but still very clear. Managed to catch a couple of nice grayling around the pound mark on GRHE nymph with a black bead head which I prefer in clear bright conditions. A lovely stretch of water with a rocky bed that I would recommend to anyone but I would take a wading staff next time if I am to avoid another ducking!

2 Grayling

Nice beat & some nice fish.

No salmon caught. A nice stretch of river but needed more water - the river was running about 4" above summer level. Saw one salmon but it was not interested in our flies. We did catch 6 trout whilst fishing for salmon on a Stoats Tail, one of which was over 2lb and a nice fish.

6 Trout

Lovely day, river clear but not low, although not much insect life about. Caught one small (pretty sure he was wild) brown trout, about 10-11 inches, on a grey duster. Returned. Clouded over and cooled off in the late afternoon/evening and, despite a few later hatches, feeding seemed to drop off with the temperature.

1 Trout

The weather was perfect but the river was very low and gin clear. Some sporadic hatches but no real interest shown by the trout or grayling. It is late in the season, but I expected to see more activity given the warm weather and overcast sky. A very pretty stretch of river but with very difficult wading in parts.

1 Trout, 1 Grayling