Feedback & Reports

Cool start but olives hatching and we caught fish. Sun burns though clouds olives stop and we stop catching, hard from then on. Nymphs caught but it was slow and hot, this weather of ours? More fish to olives in evening but temp dropped big time and the rise stopped. Nice fish caught, all returned, will fish this beat again. 12 fish returned.

12 Trout

Not much activity despite good conditions. 2 trout on dry fly, both around 1.5lb.

2 Trout

Warm, overcast, fish rising to olives and the odd mayfly
1 wbt 9" in 1 hours fishing.

1 Trout

Manfully trying yet again to get a take of a passing Salmo but as usual not sight nor sound of such a Traveller! However the solitude was interrupted by aggressive pulls from Shad which put a smile on my face as they were very silver and ballsy !! 10 returned and 6 or 7 more prematurely released.

10 Other

7 Rainbow trout all on pheasant tail nymphs just below surface. Weather sunny, slight breeze, odd fish rising.

7 Trout

A delightful evening but no fish this time.

5 Trout from 9 to 14 inch, all in super condition and fighting fit condition, lovely ...
River was fairly quiet with just a few olives and mayfly popping off, turning over the stones revealed plenty of Nymphs of all descriptions and a fair shrimp population and some huge sedge cases too! Lovely bit of river with some fabulous dry fly runs and glides and yes access is a bit tricky as has been noted before but just have a wander round and you"ll find a way through OK, the 'vertical' bank sections are deep and slow anyway and not much fun to fish the fly.

A good bonus is that there's no barbed wire fencing, tightly strung waiting to put holes in your waders and ones other parts down there ...

5 Trout

River was low but four fish rising in different areas. Amazing caddis hatch and a couple of mays to. Incredible amount of insect life. Used a dry fly but missed a take. First wild stream session. Great experience but tough. Lovely river.

Booking this beat for a visiting trip from the midlands couldn't have been simpler. The beat access was challenging due to forestwork in progress. The river had lovely clear water, warm weather, not too sunny, a few mayflies hatching yet barely a fish to be seen other than the small plips of tiny salmon par at the margins. A few small 6-8" trout caught on klinkhammer and small nymph duo under the klink. Gold head nymphing brought a few hard takes but nothing connected.

6 Trout

Perfect conditions - quite warm, no wind, overcast. But very little surface activity and only a few mayfly. We persisted with the dry fly throughout, prospecting likely spots but only getting very occasional tentative rises. One fish of two pound plus lost and one slightly smaller caught.

1 Trout