Feedback & Reports

First visit to an interesting and contrasting beat below and above Chainbridge, plus tempting Inn on the river. Wind direction ensured I had more tangles than usual and seemed to limited surface activity despite warm bright day and sporadic hatches. My Lunns Particular persuaded several wbt to surface but I missed the bigger ones and had to settle for lesser specimens promptly returned. Didn't manage to cover the whole beat so I shall look forward to returning to the convenient parking space beside the bridge to complete the task.

4 Trout

Beautiful day and a pleasure to be on the bank. However, I'm not sure how good it was for insect hatches. Very few fish seen rising and those that did were once'ers. Tried many types of runs with dries and nymphs - no joy.

What a great place! Drive lined with daffs, easy parking noisy crows nesting, warm April sun, water low clear. Saw no rising fish. Great place. No fish will try again.

Rather a slow bright day with a feeling of high summer. An 8 and a 9inch trout on a small pheasant tail nymph. Larger fish easily spooked in the clear water.

2 Trout

Fished the lower beat during the afternoon. Nothing caught but lost one. Only saw one fish rise.

A quiet day, no sign of the large hatches reported recently, just sporadic LDOs. A gusty downstream river made casting challenging at times. Three strong and healthy fish - one on a PTN, one on a March Brown and one on a Kite's - 12"-16", all returned.

3 Trout

A great day Salmon fishing under the guidance of Oliver Burch. This is a stunning beat with lots of water to cover. We had a glorious day in the sun, alas no fish but a lot of spey casting practice which Oliver managed to get me doing reasonably well from never having attempted before so very pleased with the tuition. There were a couple of canoes that came through during the day but nothing to bother us. There was an unusually sustained Grannom hatch which seemed to last all day, but no more than a couple of trout rises were seen by us. Definitely a beat to try again in the near future.

The weather was warm and very bright, with unbroken sun and no cloud cover. Unfortunately there was also a persistent cold downstream wind which killed any hope of a hatch despite the river being at a perfect height.
We managed to rise a few trout to a variety of dry flies, but the fish mostly turned under the fly. Finally we caught (on dry and on nymph), but it was a frustrating day, typical of early season fishing.

3 Trout

Had an hour on the little Blackpool Brook. 14 or so to hand on size 20 baetis copper beadhead fished tight to the heads of the pools, all in the 4-7 inch bracket. Very low water conditions but good fun none the less.

14 Trout

15lb 3oz springer salmon caught at 3.45 pm on black and red flying c.

1 Salmon