Feedback & Reports

River slightly coloured and a little higher than the previous week due to recent rain - still low however.
Although we saw several salmon moving and jumping, unable to connect with them.
After lunch had a couple of hours where rising fish became too much to resist and switched to trout gear. Much fun with both of us (on separate beats) finding that trout and chub were climbing on klinkhammers and grey dusters. Several fish missed and one large fish (I know... they always are) seemingly well hooked but lost after a couple of minutes.
Day cut short a couple of hours early due to prolonged biblical rain.

7 Trout, 6 Chub, 1 Pike

Perfect temperature, good flow, but far too windy.
Saw several rises and fish jumping, but unable to get any accurate casts due to the wind.

8 Trout, 5 Chub

Good conditions and lots of fish moving - mostly grayling. Saw a large salmon jump mid-beat 3 and there was a lot of quite strange fish behaviour - lots of jumping and frantic flaping about on the surface. Suspect being chased by something larger. Didn't make it up past top of beat 3 but beats 3-6 lovely. Low water, but not a problem on these beats.

1 Grayling

All taken on wets fished down and across. 2 small Chub and 3 small trout on beat 3. 1 taken on Snipe and Purple and the rest on an unweighted Endrick Spider. 6 trout and 1 small chub - all on the Endrick spider at the top of beat 5. 3 trout between 3/4 and 1 lb A sporadic hatch of pale upwings and small olives.

9 Trout, 3 Chub

11 Trout, 4 Chub

very warm and sunny. River low and clear. Worked through beats 3. 4 and 5. so lovely to be on the water ... and such a lovely river. All made more enjoyable by the action we had.
Between us we landed and quickly returned 1 wbt (klink and dink), 4 oos chub (klink and dink), 1 dace (nymph).
Evening spent trying to connect with salmon which occasionally showed - no luck but engaging sport.

1 Trout, 4 Chub, 5 Other

Difficult going with very bright conditions all day. Pesky trout would not look at my dry flies & I spent a lot of time staring into my dry fly boxes trying to imagine what they might be drawn to. Whilst doing this I noticed that there was a resident spider under the soft material lining in the lid; Every time I opened the box he 'popped out' expectantly & as I hooked in another failed flea he retreated slowly behind the cover. He must be getting a rough ride today.
The 'others' were 3 Shadd that took vigorously when I changed to a small size 18 nymph. I stopped at 3 not really wanting to hook any more. Never seen one before ... very interesting design to their mouths with a notched lower jaw,some beautiful spots down their flanks & an almost tuna-like tail.They put up quite a fight on light tackle.
Thank you WUF.

2 Trout, 2 Chub, 3 Other

Did not attend.

11 Trout, 1 Grayling, 3 Chub