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Water level between 1.2 and just over 1 metre above the Redbrook gauge and falling. Water cold. Weather bright and sunny. Got in the water early. Fished both deep and shallow. Different passes and used a dropped also. Varying the flies also. Unfortunately, nothing. But a good day. Nathan the Ghillie is useful source of information. Well worth the money. I will be back.

A challenging day of fishing, offset by the glorious sunshine. This was our second visit to the beat having had no luck back in April with super low water and blazing sunshine. This time round we had too much water (1.2m at Redbrook), heavily coloured and again blazing sunshine!!
Despite our best efforts we did not touch a salmon (nor saw any for that matter). Based off the positive catch reports further up river, our guess was that the fish were simply moving through and any residents were sitting tight in the poor visibility.
I did take a rather nice 1lb brown trout who rather ambitiously took a large tube fly!
I still think this is a great stretch of water and will be giving it one more try when the conditions improve.

1 Trout

Fished for Salmon. Had to spin, river still high and coloured. Not a thing moved, stirred , touched or seen! Apparantly well up river the results were good, all the fish bolting through whilst they could. Several canoes, bank hols weekend. Mayfly showing well. To deep to wade.

Few salmon seen along whole beat but unfortunately we haven't managed to hook one.

Spent the first full day of my salmon fishing life at this lovely beat. It is a really nice stretch of water and thoroughly enjoyed my day despite only catching a species that I wasn't targeting.

Thanks to the Ghillie, Nathan who was really helpful and spent a lot of time helping me with information on the river and tactics.

I look forward to coming back soon.

1 Pike

We had a fantastic day on the river, despite no fish touched. With blazing sunshine and no fresh water for weeks we had managed expectations heading into the day, but what a glorious spot to spend the day casting and enjoying the weather!
We fished scandi shooting heads + intermediate tips with dressed flies (Alley Shrimp, Cascade and Silver Stoat) on the top pools and had a few casts of the spinner on the bottom section but no takers. Thanks to the crystal clear water several fish were spotted holding tight on the bottom.
We were superbly looked after by the gillie Nathan, and will absolutely be coming back.

No catch

A long day on the beat today , in the water at 7.00am and last cast at 7.30pm. Threw the kitchen sink at the fishing, but a nil return not unexpected with the conditions.
Saw a big shoal of Shad moving up through Little Run in the evening, clearly visible in the clear water and evening light.

Below freezing point when we arrived but warmed then had bright sun all day no fish seen.