Feedback & Reports

Arrived at the same time as the cold wind. Nothing moved. There is a tree completely blocking the river halfway down the second field and another almost as bad slightly upstream. Much harder fishing than the information would suggest. One tweak on a goldhead.

Fished from 2 till 5 nothing caught. River was higher than I was expecting and slightly coloured. A few Olives were hatching but I saw no rises. I will return when it warms up a bit to a very promising looking beat.

Could not have been a worse day to fish wind was positively gale force and made casting impossible so I didn't even try. Looks like a lovely bit of water I will come back and try on a more generous day.

Had already fished the Kington beat earlier in the day. Not having fished this part of the Passport before this was a bit of recconnaisance for future trips.
Simple wading, gentle fishing, meandering through flat pasture land. Reminded me a bit of the Piddle in Dorset. Walked the beat for half an hour, winkled out 2 wbt, 6"-7". Looks like a decent half day's fishing when water levels return.

2 Trout

Very low, very clear and very overgrown. Virtually nothing hatching and no rising fish. Fished for an hour before deciding to give up and move to the Lugg. Saw a promising spot on the walk back and tried a couple of casts. This resulted in a 9 inch grayling and a 10 inch trout so decided to carry on fishing the Hindwell! The deeper pools produced fish of 5-8 inches, all taken on various size 18 nymphs on a French leader. The water upstream of the bridge seemed even shallower than that downstream, only managed a couple of small grayling here. The river could do with a couple of extra inches of water and a touch of colour.

8 Trout, 3 Grayling

3 lovely trout caught on dries, should have been a good day. However, whoever said this beat is easy wading needs to review their opinion, not only is it very difficult in places but I would say dangerous. There are very few safe places to enter the river and there are more trees down across the river than any other that I have fished. When you cannot get across/round the tree you have to get out of the river - that's when the fun really starts. You then need a machete to cut through the jungle of 6ft tall weeds, nettles etc to try to find a way back to a path and then start again, trying to find another safe place to get back in the river, until you meet the next felled tree that you cannot get round. This beat is definitely not for the faint hearted.

3 Trout

Fished mid morning and afternoon until 4 o'clock. Limited fly life and very few fish rising. One 8 inch trout to a dry fly and a couple of pulls fishing a PTN. River in good condition, be aware of barb wire fences hidden in bankside vegetation (another hole in waders that already leak like a sieve).

1 Trout

Overcast with very few flies about and not many fish rising. 5 trout were caught on beaded PT/Hares Ear nymphs and 3 on cdc sedge flies. Mostly 6-8 inches but one bigger fish of around 13 inches caught in a deep pool.

8 Trout

2 Trout

River was coloured and really pushing through; even in shallow riffles you could feel the strength of current. Anglers should take care as the current has gouged out deep, fast channels.
Great sport on Mayfly. I arrived at around midday and there was a steady hatch from about 1pm until 4.30pm, when a cool breeze came up and seemed to end it. I had lots of splashy rises to the fly, missing a lot (!), losing a couple and netting a few around the 8 to 9 inch mark but saw lots of trout much larger.
No fish taken.

5 Trout