Feedback & Reports

Great beat, eight trouts all with dry flies. Biggest 2lbs. Good activity from 11 to 15. Didn’t like the access from the House, too much tricky for a tourist. I think would be better to enter the beat from the upstream limit.

8 Trout

lifeless on the surface all the time i was there , all trout fell for aqua baetis size 18 with gold 2mm bead. not fished here for a few years and really enjoyed it. sadly over winter storms and risen water levels have left in one section two thirds up the beat near on unfishable. all in all the lugg is a little beauty. size all between 5-12 inches with the majority around 9. all released safely .

16 Trout

The water was clearer than last week and a little lower. Lots of tiny fish splashing in the margins. I started with a size 20 midge that was promptly taken by a 9" trout. Two more around 7" came to the midge and a cdc olive, a ptn tempted one the length of my middle finger.
I removed about 15m of thick mono that wrapped round my legs just down from the sewage treatment plant that wasn't here last week. Himalayan balsam also starting to show and I removed a few seedlings from one small stretch of gravel.

4 Trout

Nice river with very easy access. To wade through the water is also easier but there are a few fallen trees in the middle of the river. The water was clear and a good flow. I was nymphing with Spanish bullet nymphs and some french micro nymphs. No activity on the surface but a lot of fish at the fast water and at the end of the pockets. I took 8 brownies between 6 and 8 inches, Besides a few smaller ones. All returned safely.

8 Trout

Beautiful stretch of water. Car parking not clearly marked. Several trout rising, nil return.

First visit to this beat. Hard work but enjoyable. Treacherous wading and access difficult at times. Two trout - one well above a pound and a pb accidental grayling over 2lbs but no salmon seen all day long.

2 Trout, 1 Grayling

A challenging day on a very nice stretch. 3 ten inch trout on dry fly. Levels were slightly high making this a tricky wading stretch.

3 Trout

1x OOS Grayling 12" from Footbridge pool

1 Grayling

Second visit to this lovely stretch and were encouraged to see fish feeding on the surface from late morning and then frustrated not to contact any despite multiple nerve jangling swirls at dry flies.

Saw three mink during the course of the day including a couple that ran along the field edge so close to me I could have nearly got them with my wading stick! On the subject of pests also had a double canoe come through the stretch during the day!

1 Trout