Feedback & Reports

3 Small brown trout all caught on nymphs. None taken Very little surface activity. Glorious and varied beat

3 Trout

lovely day perfect conditions, lot of mayfly hatching but caught all fish on size 14 CDC emerger, most quite small with 3 or 4 really nice fish in the one to two pound bracket, amazing fly life

10 Trout

Well over 30 fish from 4-14 inches. 3 fish weighing in at over a lb, one particular fatty pushing 1lb 12oz. fish from all the likely spots on size 16 tungstens and dry may flies after about 2 o clock, hitting the flies hard in the runs and in the pools, they really lost their inhibition. two tree falls in quick succession in the middle of the beat have ruined two pools but it can't really be much better than it was!

30 Trout

A bright day, low and clear, with not many fish moving but persisted with the dry to the odd fish rising. Wasn't helped by 5 Canadian canoes paddling down stream from the top bridge when I arrived midday ish. Then dogs swimming at about 6 after which I gave up and went home! It's a nice beat but think the signage maybe needs improving to try and stop this happening. All fish returned.

3 Trout

No sign of any fly life at all yet beautiful day. Managed five fish but hard earned, catching on size 18 + 20 nymphs.

5 Trout

Beautiful stretch of the river. A great day had by all of us, will be back. All the fish were between 1 and 1.5 lbs and were quite shy (made them worth catching).

6 Trout

Arrived late morning to find the car and ourselves in sunshine and surrounded by mayfly as we were getting ready. We made our way to the bottom of the beat and entered the stream where there were several fish showing and it didn't take long to hook and promptly lose a nice sized trout which took a cdc emerger. Whilst briefly playing the fish I noticed a lady approaching on the left bank who came to tell us that the section of the river we were in was private fishing. I explained that we had wild stream permits and maps that made clear there was no bank access at that point on the river and that was why we were both in the river channel not on the bank. She said that her husband had reported the issue of fishermen (presumably to WUF) previously as she believed that their landowner rights extended half way across the river channel and therefore we could only fish the right half of the river - she explained she was planning to come and swim down there soon (presumably only in her knee deep half!). Having disturbed the pool with the lost fish and in the interests of keeping the peace we moved on upstream as the lady settled down on the bank to make sure we didn't stray into 'her' half of the river.
Fish continued to rise to mayfly through the afternoon and several more were hooked and lost but eventually a nice fish of 12" came to the net. By 5pm the hatch was still going strong but there was little sign of fish showing, presumably stuffed after a day gorging themselves. A nice beat, tricky to access in places but with some lovely looking bits of water.

It was a very satisfying day. Very productive beat, with good hatchings, a lot of different flies. 6 nice trout caught and released (0.3-0.4 Kg). Well Recommended.

6 Trout

2 fish caught both Trout between 2 lbs and 2 1/2 lbs

2 Trout

I caught 2 Silver Salmon, fresh from the sea each 10/12 lb and lost a monster that was on for 20 minutes.

2 Salmon