Feedback & Reports

2pm - 3:30pm... Steady trickle of mayfly, plenty of gnat & blackfly with the odd brook dun!
Cast to risers throughout approx the first half stretch and induced a few non showing fish by fluttering may & hand of the wind style !!
4 fish @ approx 12", 2 fish @ approx 16"
Plenty enough for one day!! Saw a squirrel catch and eat a mayfly!!! That's why they are so fat around here!!

6 Trout

One trout, about 1.5 lb, on a bibio. Abundant fly life but few fish rising.

1 Trout

Beautiful beat, lot of fly life no rises. One trout 8". Moved onto Arrow Mill for an hour few mayfly no fish. Met and chatted to the owners very friendly.

1 Trout

Really enjoyable couple of hours fishing on this beat. Fish caught on both nymph and olive dry patterns with plenty of fish / fly life activity. Trout generally below half pound size although also caught quite a few smaller ones approx 3 to 6". All fish returned. Lots of Stonefly hatches but no mayfly hatch to report. The only disappointment was breaking the tip of my fly rod which has been with me for 30 yrs. Will see if Shakespeare have any spares!!

6 Trout

Lots of sunshine. Fished for a couple of hours in the afternoon. Quite a lot of surface activity. Two small fish to an olive klinkhammer.

2 Trout

A three hour session on my journey home to the Midlands. Beautiful weather, I was serenaded by a Cuckoo up the valley. The river was still carrying some colour and the fish weren’t showing on the surface to start with. Three trout 5-8” to a size 16 weighted PTN. I had a fun final half hour on the pool at the very bottom of the beat tempting rising fish with a Parachute Adams. Lots of abortive takes. A shame I couldn’t stay longer.

3 Trout

Lovely couple of hours in the evening at Court of Noke - masses of fly life again including a lot of mayfly. Started off at pool by bridge with a grayling 8" and then two wbt both around 12" on something small and white. Lots of splashy rises - but were tiny grayling slashing at almost every cast.
Moved downstream and did not see another rise despite all the flies. Nice to be able to fish dry fly only.

2 Trout, 1 Grayling

Nice day fishing, size of fish were about 6 inches caught on goldhead nymphs.

2 Trout

Enjoyed this beat as always. Pretty perfect overhead conditions but despite significant fly hatches there were few rising fish. Despite this, I landed and returned 5 fish under 1lb and lost a few others. All were taken on gold head hares ear fishing New Zealand style.

5 Trout

8 Trout