Feedback & Reports

7 fish to 1lb - good average size.

10 fish between 6" to 8". Mainly 8", lost 12" fish and a few others.

Landed a lovely conditioned hen fish 11.15am just over 32 inches, approx 13lbs, caught on silver and black spooned salmon red flying c, caught off the wood crib with water level just below 0" (summer level) on the Lydbrook gauge. Quite windy, with strongish upstream wind above the island, but calm through the wood. Algae getting bad around midday.
Only 4 canoes by 11.30.

A disappointing afternoon and evening. Arrived around noon to find very little fly activity and precious little showing in the way of fish. A fitful breeze that switched from upstream to downstream in an instant and nearly blew my hat off. Tried dry and nymph. Hooked and lost one small brownie early-on with a brown Klinkhammer. Otherwise nothing. Spent a good three quarters of an hour covering rising fish at the top of the beat at around 8:30, They were mainly small fish, but there was was one sizeable one that kept wagging his tail at me. Tried all shapes and sizes, but whatever they were taking, it wasn't what I was offering. Maybe I should have been there in the morning!

Overcast and very windy. 8 trout between 8" and 13" all released. 1 trout approx 16" hooked but not landed.

Quite a good day despite a difficult and cold breeze. Good hatches throughout the day and a decent spinner fall in the evening. 3 WBT to 10 inches on GRHE. 4 out-of-season Grayling to 12 inches, taking LT Caddis klink and GRHE. Many many missed takes, particluarly to parachute adams. All fish returned safely.

I tried to vary my tactics and locations in a bid to avoid catching Grayling, but there are so may of them on this beat it was impossible to avoid them. This must be a great beat for the Grayling season.

What a lovely stretch of water and all the better for the urban setting! Caught 4 trout to 1lb but would have had more with smaller flies. Tom Richards very kindly came down to get me started and that was a great confidence booster. Tom obviously knows and loves this water and it was inspirational to hear him talk about the work that he is doing. Thanks for a great day Tom.

The beat descriptions were good and accurate on both of the beats we fished, this one contrasted with the first day where access was easy, this was steep banks and long areas where you could not get to fish. Other rod from Denmark caught nothing although we looked at previous reports and used several of the suggestions on the reports. I used dry fly in the morning and was rewarded with a half-pound brownie. In the afternoon I swapped to a wet fly and had a hit almost immediately and took another brownie of the same weight. The one problem was that the abundance of wild life on the river meant that on several occasions I had drifted off watching numerous birds building nests wide range of fly life, what an experience, anyway back to the fishing. Had to walk a fair distance to the far end of the beat before I could get down to the water. It was well worth the walk as very soon I had a hit from the biggest brownie of the two days, weighed about pound and half but put up good fight took about five minutes to get him in. Shortly after took another half-pound on the drift down stream, made a total for the day of four.

River very low, cold windy day. No sign of fish or insect life. Total blank packed up after 3 hours. Such a difference to other days I have had on this beat. Pray for rain.

Low but flowing clear and the deep dubs well filled. Windy with little fly about apart from a few gnats, some E.danica mayfly and olive spinners. Very few fish rising and just four trout tempted to take some emerger patterns and black F Fly. Caught nothing on weighted nymphs and saw few spooked fish in the tails of the pools. I also saw one female goosander, no doubt having had an easy time of it in such clear and restricted water. Rather worrying.