Feedback & Reports

Covered a lot of water this morning, no signs of fish apart from a wild brown following my spinner. Unable to find anywhere with enough space to cast a fly as the water table appears to be unusually high for the time of the year so resorted to fishing vibrax and mepps type spinners. I only fished a short morning session and would have been interested to see if there was much of an evening rise. Regulars at the venue appear to favour fishing with popped up powerbait. An angler I met advised me that the venue gets fished hard by locals as soon as its stocked and often appears fish-less not long after. I notice there are a lot of signal crayfish present, I hope these don't end up in neighbouring water courses.
I'd be very reluctant to return with the above points and a little uneasy about leaving my car unattended for any length of time here.

Caught and safely returned a slightly coloured 8lbs hen Salmon today. Fish took #12 Ccascade double and fought really well. Lost another fresh fish earlier. One or two fish aabout after recent rise and big tides. Tight Lines! Peter Dent

1 Salmon

Arrived at 8 a.m. 0.65 m on gauge. Nice tint. Few fish seen. A blustery day with horizontal drizzle. Delighted to hook a lively fish at the pub decking, which cartwheeled upstream to show it's displeasure. Feeler cascade held firm and a bright 12lber was landed 10 mins later. River dropped to 0.59m on the day but colour held.

1 Salmon

Lower, clear water made this a much more challenging day than my last visit in June. Fish were easily spooked which meant fishing at a bit more distance and with a stiff breeze I needed my 4wt rather than 3wt. Arrived late morning and couldn't find any fish in the faster water with a pair of nymphs or duo. Managed 6 grayling with a dry tenkara style soft hackle from the slower glides, largest was about a pound. All returned safely. Missed as many again and lost what was clearly the best fish when my knot failed. Didn't see a wbt all day and even with a reasonable hatch about 6pm there was little surface activity. I think the trout are on vacation. Great beat though.

6 Grayling

3 trout on spinners

3 Trout

16 degrees, overcast evening. Fairly low river level. Small hatch of olives. One trout on a dry adams, few more missed. Another larger (around 20cm) on a pink shrimp from a deep hole. Lovely little stream.

2 Trout

2 Trout

Only started fishing late (about 7 pm) caught one 12 inch fish on a dry fly.

1 Trout

Lovely beat although you are only able to fish two of the three fields on the beat. For the fee paid I would have liked the option to fish in the first field.

10 Barbel, 9 Chub

My favourite beat on the WUF. Although we as had a very productive day on the bank as with other beats we visited on our trip, access to parts of the beat were unmaintained, thus unfishable. For the fee that anglers pay the upkeep of the beat should be paramount to make anglers want to return again.

18 Barbel, 20 Chub