Feedback & Reports

Arrived at 7.30pm to try out new Tenkara rod. Plenty of fly life - but little rising. Concentrated on faster runs. Eventually rewarded with 1 wbt - best fish I have had from the Arrow. Only 12" - but deep and broad and gave the rod a real christening. Fly used - something small and tan.

1 Trout

Lovely couple of hours in the evening at Court of Noke - masses of fly life again including a lot of mayfly. Started off at pool by bridge with a grayling 8" and then two wbt both around 12" on something small and white. Lots of splashy rises - but were tiny grayling slashing at almost every cast.
Moved downstream and did not see another rise despite all the flies. Nice to be able to fish dry fly only.

2 Trout, 1 Grayling

1 x 9" grayling, 1 x 11" grayling, 1 x 6" trout, all taken from last three pools to the bridge at Court of Noke. Dry fly black 'f' and gnat. All fish feeding off top of water.

1 Trout, 2 Grayling

Pleasant afternoon - sun and little breeze. One oos grayling 10" and one trout 12" but very lean, both on ptn, saw a couple of rises but nothing to dry fly.

1 Trout, 1 Grayling

Wintry showers, strong wind and high'ish river levels made for difficult fishing so I was happy to catch the smallest grayling and wbt in the water!
An excellent beat that needs revisiting in better conditions.

1 Trout, 1 Grayling

It was my first time on a river with a fly rod. The river was quite coloured and fast flowing making things possibly more difficult. No catches to report. All in all a good experience. Very impressed with your online booking system. Will be back in the trout season. Thank you.

No Northern Volunteer Team working today so grabbed a couple of hours fishing as quite a bit of extra water expected after heavy rain forecast for Friday.
10" grayling on pink shrimp on third cast - and that was it. Nice to get out if a tad chilly.

1 Grayling

Had 3 hours on the water, very cold ice in all the puddles, foggy until 2pm. The river was running off from previous rain with a good level of water coloured but not chocolate. Fished upstream gold heads, no fish caught but couple of nice pulls, I guess it's the penalty of fishing barbless hooks which I prefer to use. One disappointment was seeing a cormorant fly over.

Had a short session on 5th Oct and lost a large grayling on a red tag having changed from nymphing after a savage take on the red indicator. Went back to same pool for a brief visit on 7th Oct - after heavy rain river only up a couple of inches but very coloured and full of debris. One small grayling in faster shallows on sparse nymph pattern.

1 Grayling

Tried trotting for about 5 hours from mid-morning onwards. 2 grayling of about 10-12 inches caught and several more lost. 1 trout of about 10 inches, half a dozen small grayling, a few small trout/salmon parr and minnows also caught.

1 Trout, 8 Grayling