Feedback & Reports

Sunny day with a light easterly wind, river at a nice level.

Lots of insect activity all day, but very few fish rising.

Spent too much of the day trying every dry in the box, before switching to the duo and catching a few.

3 Trout

Warmth at last ! And Penpont looking lovely in the sunshine. Plenty of surface activity when we arrived but it soon petered out despite the fact that there was a smorgasbord of flies hat hatching for the fish to dine on.

We had 4 to hand, several more avoided the hook . One of the 4 was lassoed rather than hooked … best was a lovely 18 inch fish.

Bird life was wonderful too … along with the usual river suspects we saw yellow hammer, tree creeper and nuthatch

4 Trout

Hot and sunny day. Trickle hatch of various species but in small numbers. Very few rises. Had a few on nymphs in the fast water

3 Trout

Fished upper oxbow section only. A long walk from bridge parking on a hot bright day & then required careful surmounting of barbed wire to gain access. Three pools & skinny water, but a pleasant place for lunch. Occasional rises in deeper shaded spots & missed a couple of takes to dries.

Short afternoon session today, was supposed to be a recon mission but tempted by some nice pools and runs at the top of the beat I didn't explore much. What I did see was encouraging, will come back for sure. Car park might do with a trim otherwise excellent access with pipe on the barbed wire noting access points, nice touch. 1 WBT on small nymph, klink and dink, no rises.

1 Trout

All fish taken on fly and returned, mixture of black gnat, olive and sedge patterns fished dry.

8 Trout

4.2 kg. Fly. 1ft 6” river level. Warm evening. Caught at 20.15.

1 Salmon

4 Trout

Hot bright day but the river reaching a more manageable level. Lots of beetles on the water and trout rose between 12 and 2 and 4 and 6. Two trout over 45cm and one over 50cm

23 Trout

Lovely beat, running a little fast and high, however the fishing was excellent. Returned 5 brown trout, all caught on floating line and small nymphs under a Klink hammer dry fly.
Many thanks to Barry for contacting me and giving me a great run down on the beat.
Well worth a visit when the water level is a little lower.

5 Trout