Feedback & Reports

River a good height and clear but rising.Dr Spence and his Wife fished beat 5 in the morning and were seeing fish moving but made no contact. Afternoon a syndicate rod took a 12lb fish to a spinner on beat 4.Fish seen running,a few shad about.

1 Salmon

Weather was awful, 10 degrees and rained all day. The river had risen slightly the night before so the water was carrying some colour. Not a great day for a hatch, but a few flies tried their best. Nothing much showing so the fishing was limited to exploring with nymphs. 2 trout finally obliged, the best was just over 1lb.

2 Trout

Excellent beat! Loads of fish rising. Used small mayfly, hares ear parachute. Rained on and off all day but despite that loads of activity. Some really big trout! up to 50cm
great day but wet!

25 Trout

River up a bit, beat a good hight and not too much colour after yesterdays rain. Fished down with the fly expecting a pull with every cast but no salmon seen or touched. One Shad from Bridge Pool, nice to know there in the river again.

1 Other

Perfect river conditions but cold and raining. Beautiful spot. 1 small trout landed and returned but had we been proper fishermen we would have caught more.

1 Trout

2 brown trout (1 approx 1.5 lb and 1 approx 0.5 lb), both caught on dry GRHE size 16. Lost several other fish which took a Light Cahill dry size 12, which were rising to a pronounced hatch of what appeared to be Yellow May duns. Very enjoyable sport, despite the drizzle for much of the day.

2 Trout

Water still cold with rain showers and not many fish rising, caught 3 on Black Pennel & Bibio just under the surface.

3 Trout

First time on this beat, although it was obvious after 24 hours of rain that the water level was up and pushing through just that bit too much. Plenty of nice looking runs but difficult to fish the boiling water properly. Eventually fished back to the starting point where the water was a little steadier in the large pool at the top of the gravel bar. Here were one or two rises that revived hope. Fishing a klinkhammer resulted in just one trout of 10 inches followed by a smaller one that got off. Three out of season grayling also caught, largest 13 inches. Very satifying end to the day considering I thought I would blank.

1 Trout, 3 Grayling

Guided by Oliver Burch. 4 brown trout, 6cm - 10cm. Dry fly (mayfly/deer hair emerger). Water quite clear, rainy day.

4 Trout

Only fished for a couple of hours and it was cold and windy. Very few fish showing.