Feedback & Reports

The short version: Doubled my Salmon catch in one day and beat my PB by a mile, twice!! Only downside was they were all on a lure.
The details: First cast from the croy below the cottage, just to check the weight, drag etc.... 15lb out of season pike followed within minutes by the first of two 2-3 lb WBT, cracking looking fish and worthy of the fight they put up...The slower water above the islands produced the first brace of Salmon, 30" cock fish and a 36" hen, both within 10 minutes... Please note; netting these fish required the skills of an otter. The banks in this area can be quite steep and drop into soft silt. After releasing the hen-fish, and being a little breathless, it was only due to the adrenalin and the use of my forceps to dig foot-holes in the bank that I was able to regain the turf above. Fishing down from the lower Carey Island and into Carey Stream with the fly was a joy but nothing was tempted. After lunch a return to the top of the beat with the spinning rod produced two more hen fish, a slightly coloured 40" that gave a good fight and a fresh 42" that looked to have net damage as the top of its tail was missing. This time a check for easy netting point was made before casting!
Finally, at about 5 o'clock, a "just one more" cast into the last pool by the cottage resulted in a screaming run down to the old bridge supports and back upstream into the shallows before the barbless treble let go.
All in all a red-letter day with only one well behaved group of canoeists to talk to!

4 Salmon, 2 Trout, 1 Pike

Water was very low. The three of us caught one nice trout on a size 16 GRHE nymph and returned it to the river. Had another take on a size 16 olive sparkle dun but missed it.

1 Trout

Same as yesterday, still a bit early. Nil caught or seen.

Worm on bottom, worm on float and various spinners. Started fishing at 0800hrs. Reservoir was iced in parts until about 1100hrs. Left reservoir at 1700hrs, 2 rainbow trout, both at 1 pound.

2 Trout

Gave both beats a go from Legg Meadow down to Wyebank on fly and spinner. Somehow missed the fish but I'm sure they were there.

Quite a bit colder than the Saturday. No sign of any Salmon.

Well what a difference a week makes. Lovely and warm on the Cannop Brook. There wasn't a single rise all day so decided from the off to fish single bead head nymph. Was slow up until about twelve only taking 4 trout. It slightly picked up for an hour or so and took another 8. Lost maybe 5 also. Plenty of Olives about by 2pm but still nothing rising to them. Little tanago rod very useful on this small brook.

12 Trout

Lovely day on this super stream but sadly no sign of any fish. Maybe still a little too cold.

1 Trout

Had a lovely day although no fish caught, few trees but a great place. Tried numerous ptn flies but water very cold and no fish seen at all during the day, river running quite high. Will return when warmer.

Beautiful afternoon on the Honddu. Sunny with very little wind. Air Temp 8C. Black Mountains snow capped. River in perfect condition, with a steady trickle of LDO's hatching all afternoon from around 1.30pm onwards. No fish rising for the naturals at all. No fish seen. Water extremely cold from the snow melt.
Tried dry imitations of LDO and also fished duo method in all the likely spots to no avail. Desperately in need of some warmer days.