Feedback & Reports

We only fished the afternoon - from about 3pm into darkness. We fished both pools - both feeder fishing with hair rigs. We caught 6 chub between us. One chub was almost 5lb, 3 were between 2-3lb, and 2 were smaller, around 1-1.5lb. The bigger chub were caught in the most downstream pool.

6 Chub

River was in lovely condition. Three OOS trout up to approx 3/4lb and one salmon parr, all safely returned. No sign of any grayling. All taken on nymph.

3 Trout, 1 Other

Due to other plans, we only fished a few hours in the morning. Trotted a float through various swims. Had one decent chub hooked by it threw the hook while it was being reeled in.

Water lower than expected,leaves just starting to fall, .and a great day was had. Grayling didn't show as I had hoped. 3 trout12"+ 2 grayling 9" and one 14"grayling to the net but not in it. Many other rises to the dry fly,great beat.

3 Trout, 2 Grayling

10 Chub

1 Barbel, 1 Chub

Arrived early, nice and easy to access in general however, the bank at the lower end is treacherous to say the least. No reflection on anyone just nature eroding the bank and wet slippy mud.
1st cast lost a chub, I know this as he left me a calling card from our very brief encounter. 2nd cast lost a barbel at the net as the hook link gave out. Picked up a nice chub about 11am and then quite until 4pm when I got another chub. 2 barbel in quick succession at 5pm, hit a third which I can only assume was a barbel but obviously no-one had told it I was a paying customer as it took me straight into a snag. That was the end of that, I considered re-tackling but I figured it was a sign!

Great day and a lovely beat.

2 Barbel, 2 Chub

A good day on this lovely beat. The first few fish were taken on a heavy pink tagged nymph but on seeing fish rising in the afternoon I switched to dries. These moved several fish but I failed to connect so I scaled down to a size 18 Griffith's Gnat and was then able to take a few more. Some of the fish were a good size so all in all a very satisfying day.

6 Grayling

3 Barbel, 1 Chub

Beautiful Location! Fishing was a little slow although we didn’t arrive until late morning. River could maybe do with a little more water but caught a stunning 8lb barbel about 3pm which really made the day! Will definitely be back soon!

1 Barbel