Feedback & Reports

An early morning visit to the Tarrell turned out to be a red letter day, fishing from 8am till 2pm off the back of rain the night before. The river was perfect, a beer colour and rushing through. The number of fish in this river is astonishing, almost every pool, slack and deep pocket produced multiple trout to Euro nymphing, some of them a good size, but most were quite small , 6 to 11 inches average. In gin clear, normal summer low flows you'd be forgiven for thinking the river is fishless, the trout here hide under the many bedrock ledges most of the time. The wading in a high flow is pretty brutal, so bring your studded boots!

40 Trout

No fish caught on this day unfortunately seen a big barbel jump in close

4 Barbel

No fish caught.
Methods used,
Legered worm
Float fishing
Spinning.

4 Trout, 13 Grayling

Fly Fishing, golden headed buzzers/ Nymphs. All caught in the lower pool.

13 Chub

Great fishing, I now know where chub go on summer holiday ....and they love their meat!!
As previously mentioned..... banks today were the Eiger ,I manufactured my own safety ropes anchored to my van but literally fell over virtually each descent/ascent. I was Bambi on ice !! Im black and blue but fishing was great .Barbel came on ledgered pellets ,chub trotted meat.
Also as previously mentioned don't go in either field if wet even if dry beforehand. I got well and truly stuck and spent a long walk and 2 hours to find a very kind fella , who, on a Saturday night , helped me out of my predicament...Thank you Robert and your tractor!!!

4 Barbel, 40 Chub

3 Trout

Fished lower down the beat. Caught on drys and nymph. Fish looking up in the morning and harder as the weather got worse.

8 Trout

Terrible weather. One fish on a dry.

1 Trout