Feedback & Reports

Be very careful turning into the beat, access is on the brow of a hill along the busy A470. You can just about clear the road with the nose of your car kissing the gate!!! Pulling out not much fun either. Probably worth mentioning on the WUF instructions.

The river was a really comfortable height so the beat was very accessible and wadeable. 10 wbt caught and returned, 8" to 14", caught mostly on weighted nymphs. A trickle of insects - mostly Olives of various sizes - picking off all day but not much rising. Lovely beat, lots of variety, wished we could have fished longer.

10 Trout

2 Trout

Excellent conditions Fish rising but being fussy. Little rascals

8 Trout

A generally good day, but the wind was quite strong, and casting was very difficult at times. My friend DH forgot his wading boots! Sigh..... He managed to find a few areas that he could cast from and make a day out of it.
Many trout were caught - about 25 in total, none of them big but better to see new fish thriving. No Salmon seen.

12 Trout

As above from MD.

17 Trout

Lovely quiet couple of hours. One trout taken on dry fly in the middle pool and a couple missed. River low and a little bright still. Otters for company.

1 Trout

It was a lovely day to be on the river. Probably could have done with a little cloud cover, but it was a pleasant temperature and a reasonable hatch of flies. There were takers of these flies but not that many. I felt a 'hatch' hadn't quite happened and many fish might not have bothered coming to the surface.

I caught several fish, including grayling up to 1lb, and, as per usual, missed many others. One was a decent trout, perhaps 2lb. No salmon seen.

5 Trout, 3 Grayling

All on dries - small fish except one about 1.25lb

14 Trout

First time I've used the new lower access and not any problems. Unfortunately the fishing turned out to be much more challenging, as the cold upstream breeze kept most of the insect life and virtually all of the fish dormant. Tried everything from weighted nymphs to spiders and even dries. Only managed to get the one take, and that was to the dry, but I was so surprised I missed it - D'oh!

A fantastic day on this lovely beat with my 11 year old son. No salmon visible, but I hooked into 1 very large one at Erwood (lost fly as it snapped 25lb line after it set off after a shake of its head) and another at Armies (fly came loose after it took on dangle and slewed into slack water). Very frustrating, but great sport. A very large trout(?) followed my fly at Green bank but turned as I lifted (should have let fly dangle!). Smaller trout came to the fly throughout the beat. All trout returned. A day is never long enough!
Two important points to raise though: we pay a fair amount to fish for salmon, yet landowners are slow to assist with signing the pools at the riverbank (which, of the many, exactly is the ridge of rock that marks the short ‘Bathing pool’?). Also, trying to advance up the left bank is ridiculously difficult - out of control undergrowth and fallen trees across the path - I’m in good health, but I struggled with constant snags and athletics over obstacles. It doesn’t take much investment to clear a path with a chain saw to make the left bank accessible.

4 Trout