31st July 2012



River remains settled and in good order , expecting showers later currently overcast .

26th July 2012


Thursday morning and river remains unchanged , currently overcast and settled .

25th July 2012


A cloudy start and feeling fresher than yesterday , river level remains good .

24th July 2012


Another fine warm start with patchy cloud cover , a good day and hopefully without the strong breeze we had yesterday .

23 July 2012


Monday morning and level remains good .

22 July 2012


River is in good shape and a fine day in prospect .

21st July 2012


Saturday morning and someone`s switched the lights on , Clear skies and the river is in good order .

20th July 2012


Friday morning and although the river appears unchanged it has dropped following a lift which occurred following yesterdays picture . At present the level is good and falling slowly , colour is good . The following pictures are of fish caught yesterday afternoon czech nymphing , most falling to a peeping caddis .





19th July 2012


Thursday morning and the river has dropped and the colour has improved ( very strong tea ,no milk ) not ideal , czech nymphing the margins is an option . The outlook looks good for the weekend .

18th July 2012


24 hrs later and following heavy overnight rain the river has lifted once more , and with more rain forecast today , I expect tomorrows picture will be similar . The colour is currently poor .

17th July 2012


Due to moderate rainfall yesterday the river is slightly up on yesterday and importantly the colour is good .

16th July 2012


Monday morning and the stones are visible for the first time in an age !! indicating the river is currently settled . I have already seen more rising fish this morning than I did throughout all of last week .

13th July 2012


Friday morning and the river continues to drop slowly , the current level will offer opportunities for all methods today .

12th July 2012


The river has fallen slowly during the last 24 hrs and with a dry day ahead , I expect this to continue .

11th July 2012


Surprisingly despite the heavy rain yesterday the river although slightly up , hasn`t suffered too badly and will fish albeit probably to Czech nymphs for any measure of success .

10th July 2012


A grey misty and damp start with light rain this morning , however the river is looking good and continues to fall slowly with a good colour .

09th July 2012


Monday morning and the river is slightly up and falling slowly , colour is good and fishable .

07th July 2012



Saturday morning and the river is falling slowly following yesterdays rainfall , colour is poor !

River Rising



1400 hrs 06th July and the river is rising quickly !!! as the heavy rain continues to fall .

06th July 2012


Friday morning and the river continues to fall slowly despite the heavy showers that have fallen this week , however with an amber flood  warning in place for the North of England today , the picture may well look different in the morning . Presently the river is fishable and has fished well for those anglers that have braved the showers this week .

05th July 2012


The river is falling once again after peaking in the early hours , colour is reasonable and does offer nymphing opportunities ,

04th July 2012





The river is slightly down on yesterday and is responding to deep fished nymphs , these two fell to a tungsten headed pheasant tail .




03rd July 2012


The river is currently steady following another small lift of water , slightly up on yesterday at this time , but colour is the same ( strong tea no milk ) . I caught seven fish yesterday and lost a very good fish over 2lb . All of them fell to either a size 14 jig hooked tungsten pheasant tail (point fly) and a pea green gold ribbed czech nymph (middle dropper ) fished czech style , no fish took the top dropper a sedge pupae . Fished 6` out from the bank in 3` of water , approx 50 yd pocket . I had fished up this piece of water with spiders and small nymph to no avail , so rigged up as mentioned and fished the same piece of water again , and caught straight away .

02nd July 2012


Monday morning and the river is falling slowly , importantly the colour is good and fishable which is surprising considering the weekend we`ve had .