Feedback & Reports

An overcast day, quite warm and humid. Water glassy as no breeze at all. Fish not showing.
One very good size grayling caught on a pheasant tail nymph.

1 Grayling

Two very satisfactory fish of 1lb plus each caught on a wet fly. Conditions ideal.

2 Trout

Evening ticket Saw off a poacher spinning on the opposite bank. This is the third time in two years on this beat

4 Trout

One pull, salmon immediately jumped but not attached, at head of rectory. Nil return.

Redbrook : 2 Salmon on the Fly in Rapids pool for Simon MacLuacas 12lb & 13lb

2 Salmon

Sealiced 12 lb fish on fly from Wyebank.

1 Salmon

A nice evening fish, once the rain had stopped!

2 Trout, 1 Grayling

Finally the weather has changed and today started wet an grey but what a difference it made to the river, flies of all varieties coming off the water and plenty of fish rising to them, a fly fishers dream. However the dream soon turned to a bit of a nightmare as I spent over three hours targeting the same big fish rising freely in a difficult part of the river, I gave that fish my best shot but in the end had to admit defeat and move on.
The rest of the day was very pleasant indeed taking 9 fish between us, one of which was a very nice fish indeed.
The day ended much as it started when I decided to target another good fish taking yellow May Duns off the surface, this time I had three chances but somehow missed them all! Again I had to admit defeat and head to the chip shop...I wonder if golf would be easier?
A lovely day with most fish falling to dries, thank you WUF.

9 Trout

After a period of bright sunshine and warm days I was woken by a torrential rainstorm at about 4.30am. By the time I’d reached the beat the rain had stopped, there was a bit of light drizzle, and it was noticeably cooler. The water level was pretty low, but after the previous night’s rain there was a good flow to it. It felt like it had been flushed through.
Most fish caught on Klinkhammer/nymph set up, but a couple on the dry later in the day. All fish healthy, but smallish, 8-10”, including one OOS Grayling, and a Rainbow (presumably from the old fish farm), the rest were WBT. I missed plenty too. There were a couple of big trees down across the beat, which made fishing those sections impossible.
Another great day on a WUF beat.

10 Trout, 1 Grayling

Arrived at about midday on a hot sunny day. My first visit to this beat. River in good condition but very little sign of surface activity. Many midges in evidence and quite a few mayfly so opted for a size 10 Wulff. This yielded a 7" Brownie but all went quiet in the afternoon and I had no success on the Wulff or a Klinkhammer. What a beautiful beat in every sense.

1 Trout