Feedback & Reports

Fished p.m. & evening. Chat with friendly farmer checking his sheep, which he said were fond of the himalayan balsam on the banks! Plenty of fly life with a good fall of spinners in the evening, but little visible activity from fish. Only contact was a long range release late in the day of one of the few rising trout seen. Many substantial trees have been felled along the section above the upper bridge, where I came across a dead buzzard and a dead white-clawed crayfish.

Warm cloudy day, lots of fly about, duns, spinners, sedges and gnat. Fish generally 8oz-1lb. Great day fishing. Fish mainly fell to small pheasant tail type nymphs.

15 Trout, 12 Grayling

3 Trout

Great day, the fish had evidently done their homework over the winter. They were in all the right place, rising gently to the very varied hatch, BWO, sedges, smaller Upwings and even better, my Klink; and the odd mayfly, which they ignored. Largest about 12" and a couple of 6".
The water was beautifully clear but surprisingly low and the surrounding countryside was quite dry.
It really is a lovely river & the Seven Stars does an incomparable Butty Bach.

6 Trout

After the Edw beat this was a return to reality, the hatch was intermittent & the few rising fish were very shy. Maybe I was in too much of a hurry. One 8" making a splashy rise in the fast water at the tail of a pool. It was also bright sunshine.
Too many excuses but a lovely bit of water.

1 Trout

One nice common carp about 7lb a nice bream about 3lb and 10 roach caught float fishing with corn.

12 Other

Weather warm and partly cloudy with an annoying down stream breeze.

Arrived around 10am and met someone from the house who told me that there were plenty of fish if I could figure out what they were taking. I confidently replied that I knew just the thing, which turned out to be completely wrong!

I tried everything, and at one stage thought I'd cracked it with a tiny black gnat which got me a take immediately followed by a fish. Unfortunately the rest of them continued turning their noses up at my offerings.

A fun but challenging day on a lovely beat all the same.

3 Trout

We found the fishing difficult due the lack of water. We were fishing for trout and both had a blank day.

Apart from a bit of spider action in late pm, nothing happened until 9pm, when there was a good hatch of mixed olives (and some mayflies) and a good rise. Caught 17, 16 and 13 inch fish (largest 2 and a quarter lbs), lost 3 others. Nearly all jumped, and gave good runs downstream. All strong, fat fish, so they obviously are eating something (not just at 9-10 pm)

3 Trout