Feedback & Reports

At last - decent weather on a Thursday! And it fell on the day we booked one of our favourite beats too...The river looked in superb condition - clean and flowing well. Not much of a hatch but we could still get the fish looking up to our dries - 22 caught in total, trout and grayling too both to 15" and also 6 greedy salmon parr. The fish are all in super condition - fat and fighting well, especially the grayling in fast water. Someone should tell them to leave our flies alone till next week! All returned fit and healthy, hope to meet them all again when they have grown some more. Very pleasant chat with Mrs M-S out walking the dogs too. Many thanks for making this super fishing available.

12 Trout, 10 Grayling

Lovely stretch of challenging water ideal for stalking the wild Brownies. Stealth and casting skill being the order of the day, sight fishing and sending your fly over the trout provided some patient sport but this was rewarded with 16 fine brownies ranging from 6" to 10" . Last fish of the day took to 1.5hrs of casting and recasting but it did eventually fall to my 20th fly type!!! Great day out with plenty of hatches, 90% of the fish caught on Grey Wulf the others falling to CDC type sedge in the late evening sunshine.

16 Trout

My father was fishing with a fly not sure what type - saw quite a few fish but caught none as he slipped on the river bank and hurt himself so fishing had to be abandoned.

1 Chub

Very overgrown and difficult access due to hefers in field with what appeared to be electric fencing. Also visited Pinsley brook - impossible to fish due to overgrowth and heavy barbed wire fence on both banks. Not a good day.

Fished from midday through afternoon. Trout rising to mayfly. All caught on small (12/14) Grey Wulff, with 3 fish each over 1lb.

6 Trout

A very odd day. I fished the beat twice from top to bottom between 11 and 6.30pm and the only rise I saw all day was a 2" fish ineptly missing a Mayfly in the shallows of the junction pool. The chaffinches nesting next to the "wall pool" were filling up nicely on the Mays taken from the surface even if the trout weren't. Also plenty of Yellow Mays and Medium Olives about. I fish this beat fairly often and usually a few will rise to a speculatively cast dry in the usual places but there was nothing at all today. Two nice 8" fish to hand and a third much bigger fish lost, embarrassingly, due to a poor knot - all on a goldhead PTN from deep fast water at the heads of pools.

2 Trout

Very disappointing; despite the cold wind there was quite a lot of fly life: two types of Mayfly, the standard pale-bodied one and a darker version with long tails, lots of small flies and a few sedges. However, I only saw five fish rise in over five hours from 3.30 until after 8.30. I had one follow a ptn, one pluck at a grhe and one attempt o a spider which I missed completely. A blank sadly! I did see a hare, dippers a kingfisher and a Chaffinch took a Mayfly in mid-air in front of me. So not too bad an afternoon and evening.

The easterly wind made life difficult today being both cold and blustery. We started on klink and dink accounting for a small wbt and an out of season grayling. There was very little fly life hatching and consequently few fish topping. Around 3 pm there was a brief hatch and we took wbt and grayling up to 1lb.
Overall a satisfying day as every fish caught was hard earned. The wildlife was incredible today with bunting and Wagtail's performing acrobatics, catching the flies hatching off the river. Thank you Wendy for your help in booking this beat.

5 Trout, 3 Grayling

Fished after work 6.30 - 9.30pm up to the footbridge.
This is a beautiful small river with a very high density of trout. Not much rising but a few mayfly seen and also smaller upwing spinners. Fished a big klink with a copper john size 16 NZ style. About a 50/50 split between the two flies. 14 landed 5 - 12 inches, plenty in the 9-11 inch range. Average fish size increased noticeably as it got dark. Numerous fish were lost, missed and pricked- could have been easily 30+ fish to hand... Great evenings sport!

14 Trout