Feedback & Reports

Big thank you to Mick for his help and advice. Hot bright day nothing showing. Lots of swimmers and canoes. Lovely beat to fly fish.

Caught on PTN and safely returned. Good dry fly fishing later in the day with late mayfly hatches. Access a bit tricky further upstream but part of the challenge with small river fishing!!

2 Trout

4 Trout

3 Trout

Only fished the evening from 7.30pm-9.30pm. Very few rises and obviously small and weren’t interested to any May fly and smaller dry offerings or emergers. Will try again tonight with a nymph off dry. Any advise gratefully received!

Lovely day on a beautiful beat. Lots of fish seen including a few real specimens. Lots of fish rising all day but very hard to tempt with water clear and shallow - very spooky!
Had 5 lovely fish before lunch and then the afternoon we were defeated by the fish! Missed two fish on dries - one fish would have probably gone close to 3lbs. The one that got away.
All fish caught on dries in fast water.
Lovely beat - will return again - perhaps when the water is higher.
Lunch as ever was fabulous!

5 Trout

Only half days fishing. Water tougher today as very calm. Again best fly Kate mclaren bumble.

5 Trout

5 Trout

quiet day

Three trout, 15", 10" and 9". Two caught on nymph, one on a size 18 CDC olive dun emerger. Fishing all concentrated into periods when there was a hatch on, very slow at other times. A few big mayfly coming off late afternoon but very few - not enough to ever interest them, they focussed on much larger hatches of smaller flies, including clouds of really tiny stuff - the dreaded Caenis/smuts/tiny black gnats? Had a few takes on tiny size 20 F-Fly too, but harder to connect with on such a tiny hook - didn't hook any of those bites. Fish all in great condition - had another fish of about 15" which came off the hook after three very acrobatic leaps!

3 Trout