Feedback & Reports

Fished from 11am to 6pm. Water at a lovely height and colour and fish showing in all the right places included some coloured thing (one very big one in the Vanstone) and a few fresh grilse. Chopped and changed methods to get a response but the ony interest was a tug in the Maddox. Canoe hatch was heavy either side of lunch but after 2.00pm it reduced to the occasional canoe.

Caught fish all day long on various pellet hook baits. Used feeder and groundbait tactics. We both enjoyed the day and will be back in the future

36 Barbel

The heavy rain, which woke me at 5:00 am (nay bother, it was time to get up anyway), was more than welcome in this driest of dry summers. Its reappearance, albeit brief, as I was getting suited and booted in the Sned Wood car park at 07:00 hours, was less welcome. In spite of the rain, the river still painfully low; even if the rain had put a fraction on the level and a hint of colour in the water.

20 plus fish from the upstream section in the morning. As ever, a lot of these fish came from just two runs; a deep corner (that does not usually produce for me) and a shallow run (and I mean shallow - I doubt that it was a foot deep) just below the weir. Is it just my imagination, but are the Lugg Grayling smaller this year? In previous seasons, most of the fish I caught fell into the 8-10 inch bracket. This year, 7-9 inch would be a more accurate description - with many of them at the 7 inch end of the range.

Less productive downstream in the afternoon. I usually find this. A combination of less water (both in terms of what is available to fish and lower level/colour), more sun and a post prandial angler, me thinks. I will try reversing the order next time to see if it makes a difference.

Fished a tugsten Endrick Spider on point and a Snipe & Purple on dropper for most of the day - with nearly all of the fish on the point fly. While there were a few fish rising, as far as I could tell, they were mainly micro Grayling (at least that's all I caught when I covered them with a Klinkhammer).

The Trout number is accurate. The Grayling number is an estimate

9 Trout, 25 Grayling

River low and clear again; weather bright and warm. A most enjoyable and productive late afternoon and evening session with seven barbel up to 7 lbs 12 ozs. Four others lost to various snags or in thick weed. All on pellet and feeder.

7 Barbel

Very nice stretch or river. A few nice salmon splashing around, but none caught.

a great day on a beautiful beat.

1 Trout