Feedback & Reports

A great day for fishing - the weather was light rain and drizzle the trout where rising. Not that I could catch them on a dry. I tried lots but my inexperience let me down.
Went on to fish duo method in the afternoon and caught 2 trout, 1 of about 9" and another lovely trout about 18" or around 1 1/2 lb, both on a ptn. Great spot, hope to come back next year.

2 Trout

Overcast calm day, seemly perfect for fishing but river seemed to have switched off with just the odd bite throughout the day. Best barbel 7.07. Very pleasant stretch of river.

3 Barbel, 3 Chub

1st ever visit...so bit of a recce. Wish I had known to turn right at the bottom of the steps...not left, although it was a nice walk. Eventually fished under the power lines just before rocks...caught nothing( fished for 3 hours), but enjoyed it. Banks slippery(need wellies or winter boots). Fished for pike with mackerel and then small halibut pellet for barbel. Definately need to carry light (I had a ruck sack/seat...as wanted to walk around swims)
Will try again .... but need to focus on 1 species. Based on feedback online, I didn't really know where on the river to fish.....middle, far bank??

Lowish flow. One barbel of 4.5 lb, a chub of 1.5lb and the rest < 1lb. Mixture of legering and trotting to one rod & swim. Other rod and swim blanked. Lots of geese. Noisy abstraction pump spoilt the aesthetics.

1 Trout, 3 Barbel, 1 Chub

One 3 inch brownie on small nymph.

1 Trout

Very hard day with the fish seemingly grouped together in one paticular section of water which we couldn't get to from our bank.
JB blanked and RG caught a few minnows and chublets on the float but nothing of any size. Weather was bright and sunny and a nice piece of river with an easy stroll across the level field to the river bank.

River low again after recent rise.

4 Barbel, 6 Chub

Mist turning into very warm day. Plenty of natural fly. I saw a few salmon on the move, but no trout, though other fisherman did. I found the bank below the bridge difficult, though recent work has been done on it.

A lovely warm and still, initially misty then sunny autumn day with the water quite low at 0.36m. on the Cilmery guage. Hardly any insects though, apart from the odd small olive, sedge and stonefly, and presumably few terrestrials in the foam as well, given the few rising fish. However most of those that were seen to rise were caught and just a couple which weren't were also tempted to get off their backsides and head upwards. Tried duo, single emerger and some bugging but the nymphs were all declined. I suspect in fact that the fish were just not "on" today. The few that were, proved to be four trout, the best of which was a lovely two pounder, and eight grayling from 14- 17", the best of which weighted just under 2.25lb. - all in great condition. All fish caught in the foam lanes on either HE or dark olive emergers. But where are the smaller 8 - 12" year classes that I used to catch here? Maybe FEBs and the otter are having a say there? Lots of otter prints today. The good news is that I also caught about six 4" graylets and what were almost certainly others were rising. A tough but great day, in a lovely place.

4 Trout, 8 Grayling

River was 0.4m on the gauge. A couple of salmon showed but I think they were long term residents. Was fly fishing all day. Lovely spot to have a day's fishing and not disappointed to blank considering the conditions. Will look forward to returning.