Feedback & Reports

My first time on this beat and below freezing when I arrived but the sun was showing and a good day was in prospect. I fished beaded nymphs and shrimp patterns under an indicator. A couple of fish were taken from the tail of a pool towards the bottom of the beat but then nothing for some time as I worked up the river. Later in the afternoon another pool towards the top end yielded 7 more fish including a beautiful specimen of 18", by some way my personal best. All fish took the point nymph.

1 Trout, 8 Grayling

Lovely spot and a nice beat for trying a bit of trotting with maggots. Most of the swims I wanted to fish were accessible. The weather was glorious with blue sky and sunshine most of the day, but perhaps not ideal for fishing. The glare off the water from the low sun was a problem at times. No grayling caught, just a small out of season brown trout. Really need to brush up on my flost fishing skills.

1 Trout

Only had two hours of fishing, absolute nightmare trying to get into the river near on impossible, barbed wire fence hidden in bushes, walked to the weir at the end of the beat had about 6 takes on a red tag dry fly but I was not quick enough to hook and the light was fading and overcast
Not sure I would pay to come here again

Mucky soupy water, will go another day and make full use of the seventeen quid permit !!!! Should have held back , not bothered to be honest with the lousey weather we have been having , no bother , shall go on a better day , when river is gleaming and a lot lower than what it is now !!!!!! Had a look at various parts off the river , deep deep water , doesn't really look good fly water but there we go , a wash off at the moment !!!!!!!!

A rather pleasant few hours playing with my new rod, first chance I've had to use it! Fished 2 - 5, no sign of any fish. Best needs a nice mown lawn alongside and ideally signs pointing to where the fish are. That said, the otter I watched hunting just upstream from me probably didn't help my chances. Definitely nothing to do with my ineptitude.

River in great condition but couldn't find the grayling. Some coppicing done since I last fished here and it's improved the access. A nice day out in a month which seems to have had 75 days in it! (75 and still counting: WUF comment!)

4 Trout

The River was up and coloured. It looked ideal but I couldn't track down the grayling. Fished the float and small feeder and ended up with 6 small brownies.

6 Trout

2 x grayling 13 and 14 inches, trotting. A warm, windy day with cloud but the fishing was unaccountably difficult. Also two fish came off before I could see what they were.

2 Grayling

Proper winter's day - frosty but bright. River probably a bit high for flies - I couldn't find any grayling at any rate. Just the one OOS trout grabbed a nymph.

1 Trout

Thought I would try a new spot out but unfortunately it was terrible conditions and I couldn't really fish. I did briefly throw a line in but abandoned the day shortly afterwards.