Feedback & Reports

Very quiet with very few rises, fish very spooky. Two trout on nymphs in faster water. Otter(s) very busy and having far more success than me!

2 Trout

With the water levels so low this was always a hopeful trip but lovely to return to this tranquil beat now the holidays are over and the footpath and pools are quiet. Low and slow. A good trickle of flies coming off - Pale Wateries and Autumn Duns - and sporadic small splashy rises but they couldn’t be tempted on the dry and the only joy on the nymph was an “accidental” 7” fish on the retrieve. Let’s hope next year is a better one

1 Trout

Pellet and feeder tactics. Most fish coming in the afternoon. Left at twilight with the fish heavy on the feed as
so often happens. Good day in a lovely setting.

15 Barbel, 10 Chub

One very colored 6lb cock fish ,put back, water low but a few fish moving, the problem with this beat is swimmers at the big house and at camp site,best left till after first week in Sept , lots of good Trout moving

1 Salmon

Rudd while fishing for trout

6 Other

Pellet feeder

3 Barbel

Our first time on this beat as our favourite – Doldowlod – had another rod on. Craig Lynn is a cracking beat – so much fishy water. But it wasn’t easy….and where were the grayling? The river was very cold and dropped 2-3” over the day – dam release water perhaps? The fish weren’t happy and there were very few rises, not sure any of the fish we caught was cast to as a rising fish.
Our usual parachute ginger quill rarely lets us down however but it was hard work for the 10 fish we had – only 2 grayling and 8 trout, several of which were around 12 inches, bigger of the grayling was 14". However….I was fishing with a size 16 greenwells parachute, there were small olives hatching but no interest apart from the tree on the far bank which grabbed it. So new tippet on, changed back to size 14 ginger quill…first cast it drifted along just outside the treeline and started to drag just as it passed the last tree at which point it disappeared in to a hole in the water – as if someone had pulled a plug out! Everything went solid until the fish realised he was hooked, there was a big swirl and …Some rude language followed – apologies to anyone in the vicinity. Reckon that fish was at least 3lbs…it wasn’t the 2.5lb tippet that failed but the 3lb tapered leader!
Most action was in 10 minutes as the evening came but the sun briefly arrived. – as at Doldowlod in July. I do wonder if the dam water being so cold puts the fish down? From the catch return seems the rod on Doldowlod had a similar day.
But a great beat to which we will return. Couldn’t see a book to leave a catch return as per beat instructions so hope this suffices.

8 Trout, 2 Grayling

Hard day for bites. The fish just weren't there. Fish what was caught where on pellets.

2 Barbel, 2 Chub

Fish caught on Stickfloat. Couple of fish on the feeder to pellets.

1 Barbel, 10 Chub

River still low and clear but cloud cover helped. All fish caught on pellet.

3 Barbel, 13 Chub