June Catch Returns

The amazing weather continues and despite the more challenging conditions, members have managed to find the fish when they are feeding. June saw 44 visits and 108 Wild Brown trout caught, this comes on top of the 84 visits in May and 309 trout caught (5 returns came in after my last Blog post).

Catch returns from 1st - 30th June reported in the returns form	Number of visits	Wild brown trout caught	Stocked brown trout caught	Grayling caught
Barford St. Martin (BSM)	14	44	2	0
D - BSM - Upstream of car park	6	26	1	0
E - BSM - Downstream from car park	8	18	1
Quidhampton (QH)	18	74	3	30
F - QH - 14 Hatches River Nadder	3	6	0	1
G - QH - 14 Hatches River Wylye	4	20	0	3
I - QH - Downstream Iron Bridge	7	24	1	18
H - QH - Upstream Iron Bridge	4	24	2	8
River Frome (FR)	3	12	0
N - FR - Above Sydling Water	1	2	0
O - FR - Below Sydling Water	2	10	0
Steeple Langford (SL)	35	144	9	25
A - SL -Long Meadow beat	9	34	2	10
B - SL l Middle beat	6	4	1	0
C - SL - Cottage beat	10	48	4	6
M - SL - Merrick beat above beat A	9	54	1	8
P - SL - Wylye Mill Stream in Steeple Langford	1	4	1	1
Wylye Village (WV)	14	35	15	4
K - WV - From village bridge to top of field	11	31	15	2
L - WV - Woods & Upper Field (Wade across)	3	4	0	2
Grand Total	84	309	29	59

The June reports now means we have a total of 168 visits visits reported so far this season. The warm weather does provide challenges in the heat of the day and finding the fish feeding whether on the surface or sub-surface is key

40 stocked fish have been reported as caught, but only 2 have been taken. We encourage members to take the stocked fish. the blue tags are proving elusive with only 2 fish having them them.

No other species were caught this month.

Successful flies are reported as dries: CDC Emerger, Danica Mayfly, Grey Foam Dun, CDC quill Emerger, Grey Wulff, Irresistable Adams, Blue Wing Olive and various nymphs including Duracell, PTN, Pink Shrimp and Hares Ear patterns.

Tight lines for July, lets hope for a little rain as the water levels are dropping and we hope it won't heat up too warm.