Feedback & Reports

No sign of salmon. Fly only. By-catch reprimanded and released.

2 Trout

4 Trout, 2 Grayling

3 Barbel

Fished from early to dusk, from the woods to the meadow but could only manage one take and unfortunately lost the fish to a snag. Fishing partner did much better with three lovely barbel.

3 Barbel

the weather was warm and bright, with the river showing 15in on the lugg cam. It was too late in the year to expect much of a rise but the grayling responded to small nymphs fished through the glides.
The cows were a nuisance because they were in the river on one of the better stretches for most of the day and scattered the fish for 50 yards in either direction!

1 Trout, 4 Grayling

Fished NE shore in strong breeze and fine rain a.m. Too windy for fly so spinning with small mepps. Moved across to S shore p.m. and the novice with me caught a 2lb rainbow. Returned to NE shore and two more rainbows of around 2lb were caught, another by the novice!! Squadrons of cormorants still on the reservoir.

3 Trout

7 Trout

Good day with fish shared between both rods. Best barbel was 9lbs 4ozs and chub was 4lbs 9ozs. All caught on pellet.

15 Barbel, 3 Chub

Arrived Sunday evening to recce the beat,without the other anglers' van in the carpark or the farmer offering a lift it would have been difficult to know where to park as there is no WUF sign.By Tuesday the colour had largely gone and the flow had gone from the water compared to 36hrs previously.My two colleagues fished on the top bend and I was below in faster water,very little activity after a few hours on the feeder so when it got brighter in the afternoon we fished float for a few hours and caught trout dace and small chub almost every cast on maggot. All the action from the bigger fish was in the last couple of hours of daylight back on feeder and pellet. Ended up with 2 barbel 8lbs and 5lbs and 5 chub
around the 3lbs mark.Lovely piece of river with comfortable pegs and good access with the pegs marked at the top of the bank with a wooden post, would have fished better with more colour in the river and a less bright day.

2 Barbel, 5 Chub, 40 Other

Thanks Stan for the usual good advice and patience with obstinate old men (and for step cutting and offers of transport of heavy bags etc!) - a beautiful day.

10 Barbel, 3 Chub