Feedback & Reports

A cold northerly front made the weather much cooler than in previous days, and there was even fresh snow on the beacons in the morning. Fortunately, there were sporadic hatches of large dark olives and march browns from 12.30 through till 2.30. Some trout came on to the rise but none would accept my artificial dries. I did manage four brown trout up to around a pound on north country spiders fished across/down in the glide below the A40 road bridge and in the riffles of the pool above the bridge. Most of the trout were caught on march brown spiders on the middle dropper, and tied with a stripped quill body, brown partridge hackle and coq de leon tail fibbets.
The combi lock on the last gate worked fine for me.

4 Trout

A very fishy beat. A few good hatches throughout the day and managed to take one nice trout trout (1- 1.5lb) off the top with a Klinkhammer. Had a couple of knocks to a deep nymph.

1 Trout

Difficulties with access to the new parking spot which was locked out. This seems to have been an ongoing problem, which urgently needs the land agent's attention. It's uncomfortable to say the least to have to reverse back down onto the A40 dual carriageway! What a pity this beat has been split into two. As for the fishing a great day was had. LDO's and flurries of March browns hatching. Eight good brownies landed and safely returned, including two 16" and one 19" fish. Saw my first swifts of 2016!
WUF Note : As at 14th April 2016, the parking issues, as far as we are aware, have been resolved.

8 Trout

Despite a cold SE wind there was a decent hatch of olives (and possibly some grannoms), on and off from 12.30 to 3.30. Using Klink+dink I caught one decent trout and lost another on the nymph early on, then had sporadic action with the dry fly until about 3pm, losing several (including a bigger fish which ran across a heavy run and broke me in a snag on the far side), most of which were lightly hooked. Should I have been using a deer-hair emerger (which they might have taken better), and taken off the 'dink' which may have impeded the dry fly takes?!

1 Trout

Cloudy with sunny spells, low and clear river. Caught and returned two trout, one 18", on nymphs from edge of fast shallow water. Olives hatching later in day, missed several and caught and returned one on dries...

3 Trout

A very cold and blustery day but still enjoyable. 1 small brownie caught on a nymph. Gate combination still not working.

1 Trout

My two brothers had a interesting day one fishing downstream with wets whilst the other fished up with a nymph, lovely day!!

9 Trout

PIN code did not work on gate had to park car on hill; cloudy, cold and windy day a few hatches seen and a number of small fish rising - 1 WBT caught on nymph.

1 Trout

Cold and windy day, pin code did not work on gate lock, a few fish rising and a number of hatches later in the day. No fish caught must try harder :-)

Cold blustery day. Good clear water. 14 trout between 11" and 15", mostly on nymph. Occasional LDO hatching only. What a pity there is so much black plastic from haylage wrap everywhere, especially here in the country which invented the plastic bag tax.

14 Trout