Feedback & Reports

The weather forecast, warm sunny intervals after the rain and cool, promised a much better day than my last Gromain session, last June. I was into fish from the off, eager, nymphing fish, taking my weighted flies on the drop. There were a few flies coming off, and I anticipated a decent crack at rising fish with dries later. However, hatching flies and rises were few throughout the day. The fish taken on dries were pulled up with klinks. It was still a good day, with my count being 25 up to 12 oz, including 4 grayling. A brownie of about 1½ lb was off after the third leap, and I pricked and turned a couple of beauties in the streamy water. All were released, some, sooner than planned! My friend had nearly as many as I, including a few grayling, a dace, and accidentally, a couple of shad which avoided landing.
Despite the lack of a sustained hatch and rise, it was a lovely day. If only there was a hatch forecast...

Landed 5 small trout and 1 shad ( max 12" ), all on GH PTN in the faster water. Lost another 6 on the way in, and missed about another dozen. Saw a few mayfly, but no rise, even late in the day.

A stunning location for a very memorable days fishing at Gromain. 6 Trout caught on mayfly nymphs, largest being 1 1/2 lb (all returned) - and seeing a very large Salmon in the shallows before it shot off into deeper water was a real bonus - thanks

Very low water with small sporadic hatches, better in the morning getting quieter towards evening. Around 20 browns between us and 3 grayling plus 2 salmon smolts.

6 small trout and 1 out of season grayling, nothing much over 8ozs, good fun though and a perfect weather until the thunder arrived in the afternoon. Fished New Zealand syle with all fish falling to the nymph. Only one take on the klinkhammer which I missed.

10 trout around 3/4 lb, 2 grayling around 3/4 lb, several salmon par. All caught on dry klinkhammers or f flies most in the afternoon.

At times couldnt see for the numbers of grannom in the air, I have never seen anything like this before.

Prolific Grannom Hatch. 27 x Brown Trout to 13", 2 x Grayling.

One Trout one and half pounds on a gold headed pheasant tailed nymph.

The lovely day promised by the forecast and the early morning sunshine never quite happened. There was a cold north-westerly breeze and it was cloudy for much of the day, so there was little or no evidence of anything hatching and, consequently, no fish showing. By the afternoon it was clear that a change of tactics was needed and heavy nymphs and shrimp patterns produced a couple of lovely grayling, the best around a pound and a half. Gromain is a stunning place to spend the day and it looked absolutely beautiful, especially first thing in the morning. A thoroughly enjoyable day - I shall be back very soon...

2 grayling of 1 1/4 lbs
1 brown trout of 1lb

all caught on weighted nymphs

all returned