Feedback & Reports

Morning fog cleared by 1pm to give way to a beautiful spring day. An encouraging hatch of LD Olives but I have never seen so much insect life totally unmolested by fish. Not one rise spotted and couldn't tempt anything to a nymph however presented. The river looked lovely and was running clear though low for the time of year. I'm sorry to report a blank but I'm sure this beat will come to life soon.

The last time that I fished this beat was June 16th 2011 when access to the river was somewhat limited, so it was nice to see all of the new pegs that have been cut, this contributed to a wonderful days fishing. Roving tactics with stick float, centre pin, castor, maggot & hemp seed resulted in catching many salmon parr, brown trout, grayling, several chub between 3 and 5lb and one barbel of around 6lb.

Nice stretch of river. We caught 3 barbel about 5/6lbs each, 2 on luncheon meat 1 on bread flake. I think the river would fish better with the water at a higher level.

River in beatiful condition fished the Hut Beat in the morning and Colemans in the afternoon. Both contain some breathtakingly beautiful fly water but unfortunately no fish were forthcoming. A couple of fish were seen and a 22lb fresh fish was taken by another rod on the Dukes. Ray was helpful and I will coming back for sure.

4 rainbow trout approx 1 to 1.5 lbs in weight. All fish in good condition caught fishing on the bottom.

No fish caught between us. Missed two takes early on while it was still misty but the sun came out and the trout went and hid. Steady hatch of olives from late morning to early afternoon.

No fish caught but several salmon seen, numbers of Cormorants and Gooseanders. Wonderful day even though fishless looking forward to next season.

First time on WUF waters, picked a really nice day for a change. This is a lovely bit of water - managed to catch 7 barbel between 5lb and 7.12 all in excellent condition and boy do they scrap. Fished mainly with pellets and hemp. All in all a great days fishing and I'm off to Lower Ballingham tomorrow to round off a great trip so far.

All four rods caught total of six barbel and 8 chub. On site bailiff was very helpful.

1st of 3 days booked on Courtfield. Had problems and didn't get on the bank until 15.30 but still managed four barbel including a superbly conditioned 10.04, and also a brace of 5lb+ chub. All from Legg Meadow on elips pellets behind a groundbait feeder.