Feedback & Reports

Some occasional light rain and wind blowing down the beat which made casting interesting, the holiday cottage was in use so bypassed this short section, fish caught using weighted nymphs, one or two fish rising but no hatch today, there is one location where the cattle are getting into the water but maybe this is ok,

This was my second visit to Lyepole but by no means the last, its such a great beat . please don't tell anyone else about it.

3 Trout, 1 Grayling

Enjoyable day, mixed weather, river very low with no rises. Caught three trout on PTN, two small and one around 3/4 lb in the fast water just below the attractively named Sewage Pool.

Saw a couple of likely lads, possibly spinning, where the river turns closest to the town, but they rapidly slinked off into the bushes not to be seen again.

3 Trout

No fish caught but had two rises. Had a major problem with the cows in the field next to river above the weir. They were very persistent and made it impossible to fish from that side of the river.

Fished from mid afternoon in the last swim in the meadow. We heavily baited the area before fishing. A warm afternoon then became a slightly chilly evening with clear skies so bites were few and far between. Feeder tactics provided one small barbel and then chub of 3lb and 5lb to T Everitt and chub of 4lb to A. Davis
This swim did not live up to expectation but enjoyed the day.

1 Barbel, 3 Chub

44 barbel, all under 3lb, were caught on pellet using feeder tactics.

44 Barbel

River very low, very few fish seen even in the shallow water.

1 Chub

Tough day, fished the upper end of the beat in several swims but couldn't locate the fish. Spoke to the gille and he said he had spotted an otter there two days beforehand so probably didn't help.
1 Barbel caught on pellet.

I have read some reports about swims and there not being many. I can say there are 4-5 well cut out swims in the upper section, the middle section has a couple of good swims but the bottom section there are none.

A very nice beat

1 Barbel

River low and relatively clear. Bright conditions. Slow going with punctuated feeding spells. Fish caught all along the beat. All to feeder and pellet.

7 Barbel, 4 Chub

2 Trout

Mixture of sunshine and light showers. All taken from beat 4 on a variety of baits including pellets, meat and bread. Plenty of other nice looking water to explore on the next visit.

1 Barbel, 7 Chub