Feedback & Reports

Abundance of fly life on glorious day. Good hatches of olives late morning produced rising fish all day - most taken on CDC emergers on bottom beat. Mainly juvenile WBT but splattering of grayling as well (prize catch near 2 pounds).

10 Trout, 6 Grayling

River low and clear with bright sunshine, only the occasional rising fish. Had a couple of other fish drop off. Also had a number of parr. All fish returned.

6 Trout, 1 Grayling

2 Trout, 2 Grayling

All fish released.

7 Trout, 1 Grayling

A beautiful beat to fish. River a good height for this beat 2ft 3inches. 1 salmon lost on a Monkey after a brief scrap on the surface. No other salmon seen, The trout here seem to like the monkey with a number of fish caught during the day up to 1 1/2lbs. A bit of maintanence work here would not go amiss, making some step paths down to some of the pools and the trimming back of some tree. All in all a very enjoyable day's fishing.

Much debate given the weather forecast before we left this morning but the die was cast - no good waiting for all the ducks to line up, we risked the weather. The forecast was correct. Rain - not too bad if it had arrived on its own but it brought a freezing cold howling wind with it. A few hardy trout were rising and 7 succumbed to our decidedly damp dry flies - nice fish 7 - 13 inches, the one best of which was kept. Most of the fish were out of reach on the windward side of the river including a couple of persistent risers just above crocodile rock. One of our number on failing with numerous attempts to cover them from a safe wading depth had to go that bit further out - just about stayed dry but 2 long distance catch and releases were all he got for his bravery! We had to give up at 3 when all our fingers were too cold to tie on another fly.

7 Trout

6 Trout, 2 Grayling

Warm southerly wind and the Cuckoo in full song - what a difference a week makes! Fish taken on GRHE and GB GRHE and 3 on dries (olive Klink and Sedge pattern). Mostly 6-8oz but one just over 1 lb kept. Lovely day and the valley and black mountains looked superb on the way home.

8 Trout

Wonderful stretch of river, fishing tough through the day but some lovely fish taken on nymph and dry.

14 Trout, 1 Grayling

Fish now starting to switch on to the Grannom. There was sporadic hatches from 10am with fish feeding on the top at these times. Fished pocket water with nymphs on a French leader to good affect.
I caught the better fish on dries apart from the best of the day which I estimate to be about 2lb. I can't really count it though as it was caught on the dangle while sorting out a tangle! It's amazing how often that happens...

18 Trout, 3 Grayling