Feedback & Reports

My third and last day, water levels were high, lots of debris from the overnights conditions, but stuck with the olive nymphs and netted another grayling (lost another). Great location to fish from, easy wading and hardly any trees, weeds or bushes.

1 Grayling

1 Trout, 1 Grayling

Dry Fly

1 Trout, 1 Grayling

all returned safely. Good condition trout range 9 to 12 inches.

4 Trout

Fish caught on small black Klink & olive gold-head nymph. Few rises and Sun in early afternoon seemed to put the fish down.
Different olives and stonefly on the water, with no major hatch of anything. Wading stick definitely needed, if only to help with walking amongst the large stones & boulders that make up the river bed. River was fairly low & our understanding from a local source was that it is somewhat dependent on water release from the reservoir at the top of the system. I didn't see a wash-off policy for the Tees beats, so not only are you at the mercy of the quickly changeable North Yorkshire Moors weather but also the decisions taken by those who control the reservoir levels. However, our local source said that although the beats can become hard to access at very high water, the river still fishes, (this may of course be for Salmon and Sea Trout).

2 Trout

Nice open beat, good access. Rose three on a Parachute Adams missed them all ! DFN.

1 Trout

1 Trout

One fish on a size 14 tan sedge pattern and the other on a red hotspot, black may fly jig nymph

2 Trout

2 Grayling