Feedback & Reports

Fished between 5.30pm and dusk. Very windy but warm and river running clear at a good level. Caught 3 WBT on spiders in the slower runs and 1 WBT on small cdc olive in tail of pool. Fish started rising just before dusk. Missed and lost a few. Fish between 10”and 14” and all safely returned.

4 Trout

3 hooked and lost in a 2hr twilight session. Only fished the lower downstream portion of the beat, below the main pool that underlies the bridge. Plenty of nice setups. Wish I had longer to fish the whole beat :). Nymph (copper John) under dry (Caddis), all hooked on the nymph.

1 Trout

Good sized fish, 14-16 inches
Caught on a large #8 Mrs Simpson

Missed three others on same fly.

1 Trout

4 Trout

A challenging day. In the 24 hours after booking the river coloured up heavily. With the downstream wind still gusting strongly despite forecasts there were no hatches. Determined not to spend the day blind nymphing I worked shallow seams and edges with dries. This produced 3 vicious takes to a large Klink but unfortunately resulted in no hookups. The fishing was not helped by 3 dog owners walking up the edge of the river ahead of me throwing sticks into the stream for their pets to retrieve. To add to this disturbance 2 canoeists came down through all the fishable water and appeared to pull out at the fishing parking area. I assume they have permission to do this and know the combination on the gate padlock .....? Still despite all this it was enjoyable to be on the river.

2 Trout

1 Trout

Only one trout on GRHE nymph, released in good condition. Trout rising freely to hatch at around dusk but no luck with the dry fly.

1 Trout

Booked beat for evening just to check out for future arrived 7pm set up fished until dark plenty fish rising some to spinners some to caddis so fished both methods accordingly then decided to fish traditional wets down n across very successful lost a good few fish. An otter n kits passed by 10.30pm and whilst packing up truck a vixen n cubs wer in the meadow. A great beat will be back.

7 Trout