Feedback & Reports

Booked on a last minute whim, hatches have started, water slightly coloured from recent rain, fish holding up in deeper water, rises mainly where I couldn’t get into position, but did get a brownie on a Mayfly Parachute, should have been more but got hung up playing with the one fish instead of moving on. Beautiful evening.

1 Trout

Hot and sunny with a fresh upstream breeze. Beautiful location but probably not the best conditions. 2 fish best 1lb caught another lost. GRHE successful fly. Access to the beat via 2 gates.

1 Trout, 1 Chub

Yellow may dries got the most takes. The wild brown landed was a feisty one. The few rising trout seemed to stick tightly to their spots. Abundant and varied hatches throughout the day. It was great to chat to a fellow angler and compare notes.

1 Trout

What a beautiful location to visit. The river was low and clear with bright sunshine and a strong breeze. While we saw plenty of rising fish, they were not consistent and proved hard to tempt. There was abundant fly life with stonefly and mayfly hatching plus a host of other flies through the day though the trout didn't seem to be showing a preference for the mayfly. They also rarely took flies from the surface, preferring to take nymphs just below the surface. We managed two trout to a dry hare's ear and large dark olive. We consoled ourselves with the beautiful scenery and fantastic birdlife along the river. We saw herons, white egrets, sand martens, dunlin, kingfishers, three types of wagtails, dipper, cuckoo and a pair of buzzard. There were many other small birds in the woodland that we heard singing their hearts out but failed to identify.

2 Trout

River very low and bright hot day. Upper beat including bridge pool but little moving despite steady hatch of olives and mayfly.

River very low. Bright sunshine.

3 Trout

River very low. Bright sunshine.

Dry fly. Black ant.

2 Trout

1 Trout

Dry pheasant tail.

3 Trout