Feedback & Reports

Conditions were perfect , light wind , warm and overcast.
Tough day though, had a couple of fish during the day (and a random chub) .
I waited for the evening rise , but it didn’t happen .
Lovely beat, badly overgrown in the upper section of the beat , could do with hacking back a bit for access.

2 Trout, 1 Chub

A decent evening rise from 9 to 10.15, with a size 18 emerger working a bit - though the fish seemed pretty educated!

2 Trout

Tough fishing on a hot and mostly cloudy day, river low and falling, Ross gauge around 30 to 33cm. We put in a long day 7am to 8pm amd I managed 2 smallish barbel, 4 to 5 pound and a 3 pound chub. My compatriots were not as fortunate with one blanking and the other picking up a 3 pound pike on the retrieve.

2 Barbel, 1 Chub

1 Pike

1 chub from one of the few bits of river accessible. Lovely area and conditions weren’t exactly in our favour with it being hot and sunny but the beat is in dire need of some maintenance to make it accessible for anglers.

1 Chub

A very short session in the evening when it cooled down a bit. 4 x chub on rolling meat. Nice to be back and no one to be seen.

4 Chub

Two modest size grayling for JD, fishing Euro nymph style. Hooked and lost a substantial trout, 24” or thereabouts , which was, shall we say, annoying.

2 Grayling

Two trout of about a pound apiece for DD while fishing for salmon - more to get some casting practice for an upcoming trip to Norway than with much expectation of catching one.

2 Trout

Arrived at 5.15am, light drizzle and very humid, with weather set to improve later that morning. River was very low and gin clear, I walked from the car park to the top end of the beat trying to find any fishable spots but very few were found, I settled in the small beach area opposite the island as this looked a prime spot. Fished for about 3 hours and only two bites before contemplating a move, wound the rod in and walked up the beat to find another spot, on returning found two ladies wild swimming in my peg !! they very apologetic but they said they had no where else to access the water.
Worked my way back to the viaduct where I knew there were one or two accessible swims only to find there were anglers on the opposite side and not wanting to encroach on their water I opted to walk the bottom section where to river slowed in the hope of finding a suitable spot, having trudged a @ 1/2 mile and no swims found I returned to the viaduct and decided to call it a day early .
Blank saved with a nice 4.5lb Chub ..
Thanks WUF and the land owners for giving us anglers great access to a great river.

1 Chub

Nymphing for a few hours, PTN and GRHE, nothing seen, nothing caught today.