Feedback & Reports

The river has dropped quite quickly after yesterday but was still fast flowing with some colour. Only fished to 1pm before heading home. No fly life in evidence and not a single trout rising. 3 trout caught on a nymph. 2 around 8 inches, the other about 11 inches.

3 Trout

Tough day, windy, cold and very very wet. One small trout and one missed is all in a lovely river.

1 Trout

River in good condition. Not the warmest of days and only a few flies coming off around lunchtime. Fished the French leader for the first few hrs and it produced 5 lovely trout the biggest being 17". Then the fish started to rise in the junction pool so I swapped to dry fly and took 2 small trout and missed about 4 others. The rise finished as quick as it started, so I prospected with the klink n dink for the last hr that produced a beautiful fish to 21". Good day all round.

9 Trout

Weighted nymphs. Very little fly life.

3 Trout

1 Brown trout c 3lb/19", 1 Brown trout 9", 2 Brown trout 5+".

4 Trout

Ever the optimist I hoped that the fish would be more cooperative than they were at Trallong the day before. Once again there was no shortage of insect life but virtually no sign of fish moving. My only fish, taken on a nymph from the Junction Pool at eight inches looked to be smaller than the one I saw in the mouth of a mink on the opposite bank lower down! I agree with the comment made by a previous angler regarding the barbed wire wound round the top of a firmly closed gate downstream of the farm - dangerous to life, limb and waders.

1 Trout

3 wbt up to 12 inches. Mink active on opposite bank towards lower limit. Two anglers on opposite bank.

3 Trout

River in excellent condition. Reasonably warm day with a gusty downstream wind that gradually got stronger as day went on. All fish caught using French leader either on hares ear or olive tungsten bead nymphs. Fish started to rise to LDO's and Brook Duns from 11 onwards, but the wind was to strong to use dry fly effectively so I decided to say on nymphs and the fish didn't mind. All pools and runs produced fish Ranging from 8" to 16" and just as many dropped. First time on this beat very interesting indeed. Only criticism is that a few fences don't have styles and one of the farm gates has barred wire wrapped around the top bar. Can the land owner not remove this as it serves no purpose other than to rip fisherman's expensive waders?

13 Trout

Beautiful day, lots of fly hatches, started on wet fly took 3 small brown trout largest 300g, switched to dry in the afternoon took a further 8 fish all 300 - 700g beautiful condition, lots of rises in the quarry pool & the bend, excellent day, beautiful spot all fish returned & happy.

11 Trout

On a bright but relatively warm day I started fishing a team of nymphs in the deeper riffles, landing seven wbt to 10 inches. At lunch time I switched to the dry and landed two lovely trout of 1lb and 1 3/4lbs. I also moved a much bigger fish in the quarry pool. There were plenty of sporadic rises throughout the afternoon but I found conditions tricky with low, clear water and only a light hatch of fly to interest the fish.

9 Trout