Feedback & Reports

A beautiful beat with plenty of variety. Difficult very low conditions, but a number of takes on olives. Just the one half-pounder caught and released.

1 Trout

1 Trout

Changeable weather meant fishing was tough. Bright sunshine then thunderstorm and rain. Smaller trout taking dries in the larger pools but bigger fishing holding in the fast water towards the top of the beat.

7 Trout

Arrived late on the river at 2pm but fish were rising here and there. Fished dries only and had good fishing including a 2 and 3 pounder. Most fish were feeding on midge but there were also small numbers of Yellow Mays, Brook Duns and Mayflies but very few olives.

9 Trout

Fishing were rising sporadically through the day, but the action kicked off in earnest in the final hour of light. This is when I caught the largest fish of the day (maybe 2.5 lb), on a catskill dry-fly gifted to me by Simon - who I shared the beat with.

4 Trout

3 Trout

4 Trout

4 Trout

An excellent day at Penpont with the help of fishing guide Kim Tribe. We began our day just beneath the bridge and after a slow start I had a nice trout on a midge dry fly. We then moved down to the pocket water in the section called "End of Fence" and did well there bringing in a couple of fish each using a Coachman pattern. We then worked our way up to the runoff from the Bridge pool and had success using a Pheasant Tail nymph. All the fish were in the 9"-11" range I would say.

The setting at Penpont is absolutely gorgeous and the beat is quite long and fairly easy to access for most of its length.

A big shout out to the guide, Kim Tribe, who is very knowledgeable and helpful. I am still a bit of a beginner - especially when it comes to consistent casting but Kim is able to blend instruction with fishing and keeps you active the whole day long. I will definitely fish with Kim again.

8 Trout

Rain the previous day put the fish on the feed. Trout to 13” ( fat as butter ). Caught fish on spiders and dry fly.

10 Trout