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We fish Eden and tributaries throughout the year with the emphasis on the memorable wild trout in the summer months, and the often huge (and always challenging) grayling during the colder months. Eden is rarely an easy river to fish, but it always provides fishing that is simply unbeatable in England for wild trout and large grayling. If you can learn how to catch consistently on Eden, you can cope with most rivers. Our fishing is mostly on private stretches rather than club water, and includes many wilderness sections which are seldom if ever fished.
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Contact Us: Jeremy & Jennie Lucas Tel: 01768 352995 email: jjbrlucas@btopenworld.com Copyright © Wilderness Flyfishing, 2008. All rights reserved. |
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This year
we have had more rain even than during 2007, and over a longer period.
Although the river has been unfishable for much longer than usual, the extra
water has at least kept agricultural pollution to a minimum. The Eden Valley has been magical.
Flowing from the Howgill Fells,
between the wilderness areas of the North Pennines and the dramatic Lakeland
mountains, the entire Eden
system is the last truly wild trout and grayling fishing remaining in
England, at least on such a scale. Whenever a window in the weather
has opened, the opportunistic fly fisher has had memorable sport. The
grayling are larger on average, and more numerous than I can every remember,
in 25 years fishing the system. Encouragingly, grayling are also
finding their way back into some of the feeder becks, following years of low
water which have adversely affected grayling populations in these small
streams which are also so susceptible to agricultural damage. 
The
wild fish of such a large-flow system provide this rare experience that makes us
all pause in today's increasingly synthetic life-style and be thankful that
such a place still exists. The Eden and its numerous and varied
tributaries and feeder becks provide opportunities to explore all methods
of river fly fishing, from classical upstream dry to the frontier method of
braid nymphing. Several of the becks running off the Pennine fells
into Eden provide us with 'jungle fishing' in which the utterly wild trout
provide testing and disparate challenges among alders, willows and
dense colonies of ranunculus. Ascending the rock and heather
slopes, way above the trees and grayling in the valley below, the raw,
openness of the fells reminds us of the wilderness country that surrounds
Eden as we seek the surprise of trout in the rock pools and cascading
upland waters.