Feedback & Reports

We booked 3 beats for the day and had so much fun on the other two that we had virtually no time on this beat. A fews casts into the first pool up from the confluence produced a lovely trout and then we were off. Will come back and fish it properly next time.

1 Trout

A very enjoyable couple of hours spent on this delightful small stream. I only had time to fish up to the sewage works but managed two lovely wild browns of 10 inches and one of 8 inches. It was a warm day with loads of fly hatching but not many fish rising so caught all fish on a small upstream beaded hares ear nymph. I think just the right amount of trimming has taken place making the fishing challenging which is what wild stream fishing is all about. I would just add it would be helpful if there was some help in passing the in-stream live stock gates as these were quite challenging in waders rod in hand etc.

3 Trout

Good number of flies and also fish rising. Evidence of Mayflies hatching.

1 Trout

Several to hand, took most on size 16 nymph until a half decent amount of Olives started to bring them to the surface. Took a fair few to an Olive dry.

Only the occasional rise and not a lot of fly life. Four healthy and energetic WBT's, 7-9 inches, brought to hand and returned before ripped waders (watch that barbed wire) brought things prematurely to an end. A lovely little beat. All rises and takes were to a small Parachute Adams.

4 Trout

The promised rain didn't really arrive so we enjoyed a reasonably full day fishing this beat. The access work carried out by the volunteers is impressive. We caught plenty of fish with 3 being around 12-14" and missed quite a few snatchy bites. All came to small tungsten nymphs fished in the heads of the pools. Only saw a couple of very small fish rising despite a trickle of olives throughout the day.

10 Trout

3 fish of 6-8 inches, 4 of 10-12 inches all in really good condition. All fish on sawyers nymph from the bodies of pools early on and by 1pm they were coming from the necks. Not more than a handful of olives hatching. Beautiful little river.

7 Trout

Too cold, no fish seen let alone caught, The Crown at Longtown was welcoming as ever.

5 x trout 8-11 inches on a Tungsten Hare's Ear. Despite warmish weather, wild daffodils etc on the banks, trout in this upland stream were still in winter mode - lying on the bottom of the deeper and slower pools, most reluctant to rise. So it was all about weight and I used a much heavier nymph than usual to get any takes at all. Nothing hatching today, but I'm sure it will improve shortly.

5 Trout

Very low water level left fish with few places to lie.
Caught 3 WBT on nymphs.

3 Trout