Feedback & Reports

Minus 1.5 degrees and the river running high but clear, so it took a while for things to get moving. In common with other recent reports nearly all grayling were caught in the faster moving water rather than on a deeply fished bug in the slow stretches, nevertheless they all took a tungsten headed soft hackled fly fished below a klinkhammer. Great to see a number of salmon moving through and I hope they escape the attention of the poachers who left a small mepps hanging out of reach in a tree half way up the beat. Best fish was 15 1/2 inches but most in the 10-12 inch range and very lively strong fish. Incidentally I fished the bottom beat of the Cammarch Hotel the following day and fishing was equally good until a sharp rise and colouring of the water put paid to fishing at about 2pm. Again several salmon from medium to large size were crashing around.

9 Grayling

Tricky day, everything felt just right but I struggled to find the fish. Fantastic beat.

5 Grayling

4 Grayling

A lovely beat with lots of varied water. We fished dry fly and nymph and took fish off the top as well as from down below. Fish were moving to small Stonefly and Sedge on the surface and small orange shrimp patterns fished deep tempted the Grayling. The river was low and clear but fished well. A lovely day.

2 Trout, 12 Grayling

DC & GC had another day on this nice beat but the fishing was really hard going due to a very strong and gusting wind. No sign of any surface activity so nymphs used. GC had 4 grayling and DC 3 grayling up to to 10inches. The 2 other were small wbt.
Many thanks to the Colonel and W&U.

7 Grayling, 2 Other

Frosty start (-2 )but soon turned into lovely calm day, water was very clear and the fish were in different spots to when I fished it about a month ago. grayling to 10" and oos trout to 14"

4 Trout, 11 Grayling

Choosing to fish on the day ex-hurricane Ophelia blew wasn't the best idea but nonetheless we had a great day on this lovely stretch of water. A stiff downstream breeze did make it difficult but we fished until mid-afternoon when the amount of branches etc. coming down meant we called it a day a bit earlier than we would of normally. All grayling were taken on the dry fly, amazing considering there were so many leaves on the surface that the grayling could hardly have seen the flies. Small out of season trout took nymphs. All fish returned. First time on the Colonel's Water, we will definitely be back. The Fishing Passport is an extremely efficient way of trying new waters.

2 Trout, 5 Grayling

lovely stretch of water - no canal like sections!. First time I have fished here. 3 grayling to the net in total - 2 upstream nymphing, 1 NZ style.

3 Grayling

1 Trout, 3 Grayling

DC & GC found it hard going today, very strong gusty downstream wind, hence many leaves drifting through. No surface activity so nymphs were the order of the day. The grayling were 6/8inches and the oos wbt the same.
Thanks to the Colonel and W&U for making this beat available.

2 Trout, 4 Grayling