Feedback & Reports

Fairly slow not much happening during the day unfortunately had to leave just as it was getting exciting due to 3 hour drive. Most were caught on dry fly, one on nymph and one on streamer and one followed.

4 Trout, 3 Grayling

Fished lower field. Really only one fishable swim. Tried two others but standing room only, not very level and immensely uncomfortable. Fished 1330-2100 and caught chub steadily on pellet and meat, alongside feeder with wetted pellet. Not a sniff of a barbel. Disappointing. Good chub fishing but not the intended quarry. Could probably have caught one chub a chuck on the float.

11 Chub

Had 1 on mepps spinner 3 on worm

4 Trout

4 Trout

A later session Planned to fish in to later evening started at 1.30 pm and straight in to fish on nymphs at the lower end in the 8-12 inch size.
Although river low ,there was some colour in the water and in deeper pools visibility was poor.
Moving up towards bridge and 3 guys were spinning above ,we approached and asked them to leave and a bit of verbal and off they went.
More signage would be good as there lots of people walking the one bank.
A sporadic 20 mins on the drys in the faster water accounted for two nice 2 lbers ,Oliver clink hammer,and that was it,we stayed til 10.pm but disappointed with surface activity.Great hatches of olives and spinners the ducks were having a feast but not the trout.

20 Trout

5 x 1/2 Brown Trout. Beautiful dark fish rising to White Wulff flies.

5 Trout

Enjoyable evening 2 chub and 2 barbel ledger with paste wrapped around a pellet doing all the bites

2 Barbel, 2 Chub

Rainbow caught on spinner just after 8am on 5th or 6th cast then nothing all day, water level very low with algi starting to form on surface . Only consolation was the sight of an Osprey putting in a short appearance scouting the reservoir eventually diving down on the opposite side of the reservoir after a fish, a first for me and a privalige to have seen this amazing bird of prey.

1 Trout

Lovely beat but water quite high and difficult wading. Very few rising fish and fish caught on spiders.

3 Trout

Small trout on wet fly all returned safely

2 Trout