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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 takes you to the frontier of our sport. 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, 2007. All rights reserved. |
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This year
the Eden Valley has been magical, even miraculous.
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. There has been a lot of rain and
while this has made the river unfishable for fairly long periods, the
majority of the year since April has allowed a lot of fishing days. As
a consequence of high rainfall, the usual agricultural pollutants have been
diluted and oxygen levels have been high, resulting in trout and
particularly grayling remaining in the upper river. The fishing
throughout the system has been breathtaking, with both large grayling and
trout being caught.
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.