River fishing

Bessy Beck Trout Fishery has rods on the upper Lune for guided fishing or tuition. Tebay Angling Association has some beautiful water from where the Lune is little more than a burn to deep salmon holding pools.

Brown Trout

The upper Lune is much underestimated as a brown trout river, every year brown trout up to 3lbs are caught on fly. The larger trout tend to be caught in the spring, during summer evenings and again as the temperatures cool in autumn.

Sea Trout

Sea Trout enter the Lune as early as May each year and arrive in the upper reaches in numbers by July. They are not dependant on high water and will run in the lowest of water levels at night. Although these fish have been in decline for a number of years, there are still enough fish to give good sport, recently the upper reaches of the Lune has fished better than the middle and lower beats, for both sea trout and salmon.
We offer guided fishing day or night and can give tuition to those trying sea trout fishing for the first time. Sea trout can be caught on fly under almost any conditions.

Salmon

The start of Salmon fishing in the Tebay area depends on rainfall, generally by the beginning of August there are enough fish present to make angling worthwhile. From then on their numbers build up, September and August being the best months. This area is suited to all methods of angling, fly, spinning and worm. We prefer to instruct fly fishing but sometimes conditions dictate that other methods are used.

Below Ian Riddell playing a fly caught salmon in a pool below Tebay.

Booking

Telephone 01539 623303  Mob 07791563355

Email enquiries@bessybecktrout.co.uk