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

3 Grayling

3 Chub

No fish caught today

Water was too high and flowing too quickly to have confidence that the nymphs were presenting well.

5 Grayling caught in cold conditions with trotting tactics. Size up to 1.5 lbs .

5 Grayling

4 mini grayling at the end of the day on haresear/orange grubby fly

4 Grayling

Grayling 11”, 2 x OOS trout at about the same size.Conditions fair but the fish only came on the feed briefly at around 1pm. Good to be back on the river though.

2 Trout, 1 Grayling

A great day for the pike angler with a 14lb 5oz and a 21lb 6oz landed. The barbel angler lost a really good barbel and landed a chub around the 5lb mark.

We will definitely be back.

1 Chub, 2 Pike

Apart from shotts, 10 x grayling of which 2 good ones and 6 out of season trout. A mixture of trotting and bugging in water which was still very high, but hard fishing and we didn't really contact a good shoal. Most of the trout had not spawned.

10 Grayling