Feedback & Reports

We parked at the pump house building and went across the field down stream. We were fishing with Spam, sausage and bread but couldn't tempt anything. However, I saw my first wild Salmon rise around 08.00 in the second usable swim. I was privileged to see the full body breech of a deep and long fish and the tail was amazing. I would estimate this fish to be over 10lbs, what a sight and my first wild sighting. There were plenty of rising fish, which could ave been sizeable browns or even grayling taking flies off the top. Hopefully we'll visit again next year and this time I'll bring my fly tackle as well. Many thanks to local gentleman who steered us in the right direction and to Terry for his texts. Steve

2 Chub

Beat 4 in evening. Alternated between pellet and meat. No sign of barbel. Constant chub attention to meat resulted in one small fish. Kingfisher did much better than me!
Several salmon splashing about.

1 Chub

Tricky days fishing as it was very hot and bright, the river was at a good level but the fish weren't playing.
I caught 1 chub of about 5lb touch ledgering on some luncheon meat.

1 Chub

One barbel of approx 8lbs. saved our blushes at last knockings. Was so hot that we really should have arrived at the river 6-7pm & fished when the sun was off the water, but travel arrangements did not allow this. Lovely day on the riverbank nevertheless. Almost constant slow hatch of 'uprights' to feed the sand martens & the trout. Two lazy salmon moving now & then. Late on there was a bigger hatch of yellow may's ( Sallies); Such pretty little insects ... glad to say some of these escaped the avian onslaught. I should imagine the river really comes alive at night in these conditions.
Thanks to all again.

1 Barbel

A wet day. So a bit of a struggle. Gave up in the end.

4 Barbel, 9 Chub

1 Trout, 1 Chub

Beautiful stretch of river, but probably needed a little more water and colour on all beats, especially 6.
Hard going all day. Fished bend on beat 4 to begin with and was sure something would click, but all three of us drew blanks. Was sure Chub would feature, but it didn't happen. Lost fair bit of ledgered gear to snags too, probably large rocks, which seem to prevail here. Quite a lot of canoe traffic throughout day. All were fine, but never ever really felt settled until after 6pm.
From 4 till 6 fished beat 6. Far less snaggy, but desperately needed a little more water and colour on it. Deepest stretches seemed about chest high at best. One good wrap around bite, but fish threw hook. Again, ledgered pellet.
Will return. Would imagine Autumn here could be excellent.

The other were perch. Fished beat 6 through to start of beat 2. One angler wading and one angler static. Peaceful beat, good in the morning but bites dried up after 1pm.

3 Trout, 2 Barbel, 9 Chub, 2 Other

Fished B4. Tough going with the current low river conditions, however, managed two barbel and lost another with scaled down feeder tactics and small hookbaits.

2 Barbel