Feedback & Reports

Took a friend river fishing for the first time and he was very happy with the days activities. Even though the salmon parr were a nuisance it was good to see a healthy amount of young salmon on the river. A few fish taken on heavy beaded nymphs and the others on dry caddis patterns. not many fish rising today. Biggest grayling 17" and brown 14".

7 Trout, 6 Grayling

This streght of the river is very very difficult to wade. I advise to take it very carefull if this is the first time in this spot. The river was a little bit low of water.

25 Trout, 2 Grayling, 15 Other

3 rods fished the lower section of the beat very lightly in the afternoon. River height ok but lower than expected. Occaisional Sedge, Large dark olive and Mayfly hatching but nothing consistent for the fish to latch onto. Some good fish seen in the shallower glides but very spookey. Beautiful section of river, will definitely fish this beat again. 1 BT 1Grayling caught on small bead head hare's ears.

1 Trout, 1 Grayling

Taught to take a walk of the full beat before setting up. At top of beat decided to set up and discovered my 4 piece rod was now 3. Several retrace of riverbank-fruitless! If anyone finds a rod-tip from a Sage 8'6" 3 1/2 oz copper coloured rod?
Upset, not deterred, I set up my 3 piece 'stick' with a team of PTN's, and in the tail end of several pools took 3 nice (average 1lb) trout. Raised a few more but setting the hook was problematic! Weather dry/warm with low water and little emerging with even fewer rises I'll be back! Sportsfish shop tomorrow for new rod.

3 Trout

We both fished fly, mainly dry but also New Zealand style with a trailing nymph below the dry fly. It was on the nymph I caught the grayling. The water was quite high and there was much of the beat we could not fish because it was too deep. But on the wide gravel beds we managed to fish. There was a mayfly hatch along with yellow may duns, pale wateries and many sedge flies. The river bed was carpeted with salmon fry in the tens of thousands!

4 Trout, 1 Grayling

Dry fly with and without NZ style produced no result. Two fish were to black spider. Cold wind meant no surface activity although there were a variety of upwinged flies coming off. Water crystal clear and quite low.
Nice to see a river relatively free of himalayan balsam although there were one or two small patches. Hopefully these won't be allowed to spread further.

2 Trout

Nice day fishing. Difficult at times but rose to dry flies, average 12 inches.

6 Trout

Two great days, first ever river fishing experience. River still cold and fly activity only apparent after 13:00. Much evidence of small brownies and many afternoon rises to fly (suspected mockery)but too difficult a catch for beginners. Donated multiple flies including the much heralded local fly the "Dai Bach" to the bankside trees and slipped on the slate bottom of the river. Two otters spotted at end of the beat by the church and this cant be doing stocks much good. Wonderful beat for casting tuition and for first river experience. Stayed in Hendre Farm at the end of the beat and this gave Grandad easy vehicle access to the river bank. A great week-end and thankfully the weather was kind. A beautiful river in a beautiful setting.

Weather report suggested that we would be rained off but with some excellent advice from Allison, we kept an eye on the river levels (http://www.gaugemap.co.uk/) the river dropped over night to a fishable level (below 700mm).
Day was overcast, and very little fly life was seen. No fish were rising. 1 small Brown caught & 1 Lost, near the old Church on hare’s ear nymph.
Nice stretch of river lots of different conditions - though wading difficult in a lot of area due to water level. We would return again later in the summer.

1 Trout

River very low and clear. Fly fishing only - mainly using dry fly. Small grayling caught on dry fly.
Very few fish spotted - contrary to years ago when the river held a good stock of trout and grayling. We wondered whether the prescence of otters in the river is having a detrimental effect on fish stocks?
WUF Note: We would caution against assuming low stocks of fish if nothing is seen. This is quite often the case in low, clear water conditions, especially when nothing much is hatching.

1 Grayling