Feedback & Reports

Arrived at dawn and once again I headed to the lower pool on the road bank. Fished elips pellet hookbait with groundbait feeder tactics about a 1/3 across and apart from a slow start, from 10.45 onwards I had regular bites all day until I packed away at 7.40pm. Lost one barbel and one chub as well so 14 bites from one swim while my companion had one of each as well. So a good day, I'll be back!

4 Barbel, 8 Chub

River low, on the feeder-mag and pellet. Small chub and silvers all day.

3 Chub, 30 Other

Arrived around midday and was surprised to find this popular beat free. River low and slow with most fish easily spooked. But I took four with a weighted nymph, the best around 10 inches.

4 Trout

Found the river with a bit more flow than a couple of weeks ago but still very clear. Managed to catch a couple of nice grayling around the pound mark on GRHE nymph with a black bead head which I prefer in clear bright conditions. A lovely stretch of water with a rocky bed that I would recommend to anyone but I would take a wading staff next time if I am to avoid another ducking!

2 Grayling

Nice beat & some nice fish.

No salmon caught. A nice stretch of river but needed more water - the river was running about 4" above summer level. Saw one salmon but it was not interested in our flies. We did catch 6 trout whilst fishing for salmon on a Stoats Tail, one of which was over 2lb and a nice fish.

6 Trout

Lovely day, river clear but not low, although not much insect life about. Caught one small (pretty sure he was wild) brown trout, about 10-11 inches, on a grey duster. Returned. Clouded over and cooled off in the late afternoon/evening and, despite a few later hatches, feeding seemed to drop off with the temperature.

1 Trout

The weather was perfect but the river was very low and gin clear. Some sporadic hatches but no real interest shown by the trout or grayling. It is late in the season, but I expected to see more activity given the warm weather and overcast sky. A very pretty stretch of river but with very difficult wading in parts.

1 Trout, 1 Grayling

No catch.

Not impressed at all with this beat, heavily overgrown access above first weir not good and very overgrown elsewhere. What fish were rising I could not get near due to overhanging branches and vegetation.

1 Salmon, 1 Trout