Feedback & Reports

The day before was warm and may well have been the ideal early season conditions. On my visit the wind had a bit of a chill to it so hatches were thin on the ground. Only saw two upwings lift off the water during the warmest part of the day. Did see a couple of fish rise to something at the surface. Tried emergers but only had one splash at the fly. Gave nymphs a try and had one follow that I saw. It was good to be out and I'll certainly return.

Loads of fish caught all day up to 2lbs in some decent water. Shame they were mainly very poor quality stocked fish though, lots of fins missing and rubbed ddown tails. With the number of juvenile wild fish in the tribs there is no reason to be filling the river with these ugly things.

20 Trout

Client who was Salmon fishing is only a beginner so it was more a case of getting use to Spey casting. I went Trout fishing and managed a couple of Brownies about 1 - 1 1/2 lbs + a couple of Salmon Parr about 6 inches in length.
Most enjoyable day, we'll be back!

2 Trout

Fishing was good today. Caught a total of 3 brown and 8 rainbow trout, taken on both worm and spinners. All browns returned, 5 rainbows landed and taken.

11 Trout

The river was in excellent condition, running full and clean. I took my first fish of the season off the top of the pool behind the weir on a Klinkhammer. Had another in similar circumstances later in the morning on the upper half of the beat. Four other trout came to a weighted Hare's Ear, all 7-12". After lunch it became breezy so I gave up and pottered home more than satisfied.

6 Trout

Weather forecast wrong again strong cold wind blowing most of the day nothing much happening but did manage a reasonable brown trout with a hares ear. Look forward to warmer days.

1 Trout, 1 Grayling

14 pound with longtailed sealice, spinning.

1 Salmon

2 Trout

Fished from Maddox down to Vanstone with 1" tube with no offers then again spinning with red flying C and hooked a 9lb Pike. Fished again on Friday in bright sunshine with no offers. Decided to call it a day at 14.00. Great beat will fish again.

1 Pike

Difficult day for trout. Cold, with a strong downstream wind. 0.95m on EA Erwood gauge, which made the gutters on the bottom part of the beat difficult to fish. Only a few flies about, including one or two March Browns and even a few Hawthorns. Only seen a handful of rises all day. Stuck to nymphs and spiders. Two of us managed 8 trout between 7 and 13", mostly from the top section of the upper beat (Orchard), which is a nice bit of water.

8 Trout