Author: Glyn

Nice to see the rose bay willow herb, field mace and meadow sweet in full bloom this month, we’ll not mention the Himalayan balsam. Water levels are getting quite low at the start of July with the gauge now out of the river, with no rain forecast for at least two weeks it could get […]

A very wet start to June which rose the river levels and did bring some fish in from the estuary and moved fish above Carlisle further upstream. As the levels dropped and the water cleared, we’ve had one salmon landed, two lost and a few missed. More rain on the tenth and eleventh keeping levels […]

The beginning of the month saw small pods of grilse and sea trout coming in off the tides, but as the water level dropped, the grilse soon ceased to enter after the 12th. Incredibly low levels during this dry period, it must be really bad upstream of us, but to save the day the grayling […]

Although a hot start to July and the water clearing and dropping with clear skies, the fishing for trout and grayling was actually very good, even with the water temperature approaching twenty degrees. There were some specimen grayling caught with one or two over the magical two pound mark and the majority around one and […]

Despite stiff north and east winds and bright sunshine during the first week of April, good hatches of large dark’s, brook duns and olive uprights have got the trout to the surface feeding. Although with the cool breeze the hatch lasting for around an hour or so early afternoon, then suddenly switching off, going sub […]