Feedback & Reports

Three good days fishing, condition in the morning were perfect. First hen salmon caught was 11lb from the Vanstone the second hen, 12lb from the V, the third one, a 5.8 Grilse in the Island. All three on an ally shrimp nice takes and all put up a good fight.

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Nice fishery well maintained, with easy access, no fish caught but saw a few jumping. Will fish again in the new season.

Slightly high and coloured water, intermittent cloud and sun, with periods of keen and gusting wind. Using a Sink tip with a Geoff Franks single hair wing Comet fly, I felt a strong tug on the line, and landed an 8lb hen fish. Half an hour later, a 16lb hen fish, followed within the hour, by a fine looking 20lb cock fish. Contrary to what a previous report suggested, this is fine fly water, and marvellously maintained by Mick the ghillie, whose expert guidance put me on to each of those three fish. So thank you Mick and Geoff, for a memorable end to this year's season.

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nil return

The 1st time I have been. Saw one fish on arrival but that was it. In my opinion the beat is best suited for spinning as there is only really one decent pool with running water, the stones, dog hole etc. There is a good couple of hours on this little stretch but that's it after that. I left early afternoon as going through the same pool (if there are no running fish) is a monotonous task . The sheer volume of canoeists makes fishing very difficult as some of them were not sticking to the other side. Swans are an issue on the beat and perhaps the banking could be strimmed of nettles etc. along with markers informing of the start/end of the beat.
It was good to see the river but could you let me know if there are better beats suited for fly?
Regards Nolan Wall
(WUF note: Nolan - others have been quite successful using fly in most of the pools at Goodrich. There are many other beats in the Passport with " faster" water however)

River visibility very low unfortunately so nothing to report..

wash off river came above the stone and very coloured

Lost a nice salmon in the Island Pool. It put up a good fight, jumped clear out of the water and shook the tubefly out, what a shame. It was a nice fish, clean looking about 12/14 lbs would have been a good result after two hard days of fly fishing.

River rising rapidly, up 0.3m between 07.00 and 11.00. Conditions very good and the work that Mick has been doing on the banks and access routes was excellent. Sadly no fish.

length, 31.5" (inches). Hen Fish caught on a size 8 Bann Shrimp from Dog Hole

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