Feedback & Reports

Took my son to this beat and he rewarded me with a beautiful brown trout 20" in length 3.5lb plus. Taken on dry brown wedge pattern. Fish returned safely. River conditions excellent. A great day.

1 Trout

1lb trout on a tan klinkhammer, only fish I saw rise all day. 2lb trout on PTN. Both fish returned safely.

2 Trout

No salmon, one seen but we think it was a kelt. Two trout largest around 1.5 lb both returned. Lovely day.

2 Trout

Hooked and lost 2 fish on spinners.

A dawn strike was rewarded with a lovely 12lb. hen on single hook hardware. First light, first cast, first of the year. Fished through the middle of the beat with the fly rod as well. Enough water in the river at the moment to carry a line nicely through. No other touches or sightings, called it a day at lunch time. Thank you.

1 Salmon

Peering over the brush on the walk down to the start of this beat, can only whet your appetite for the hours ahead. A succession of runs, pool's and glides that would have you reaching for every pattern and rig you could muster, I was not expecting a water like this for some reason.
But, alas you can't have everything. A quite cold drizzly day turned to a down pour with thunder and lightening by 2.45pm, a dampner to say the least. No hatch (really?) no rising trout. Fished with nymphs only to connect with two o/s Grayling at 10/12 ins, quite impressive I thought for a water this size? Both returned with TLC. I'm thinking this beat would be great in the summer but I would imagine the foliage may make things a tad more difficult than this time of year but as I said, you can't have everything.

2 Grayling

River quiet - nothing moving. Thanks to Terry for his help.
Stayed overnight at the Red Lion at Bredwardine - very comfortable and good value.

Nothing doing except rain, hail, thunder and lightening!

Two salmon jumping on or near the Marl Bed. Didn't catch anything though. Nice beat, great access, lots of water birds about, saw a mink and a hawk of some kind killed a pigeon near us.

Spent a great morning on this historic/picturesque beat. Some fantastic pools for the fly and spinning angler to target with every beat feeling like it was going to produce a fish but sadly not. An overnight drop in water with increasingly good clarity made for tough fishing. Will certainly be back once we get another bump of water.

1 Trout