Birmingham Anglers Association

Its great to hear that there seems to be a viable and reproducing trout population there. Maybe they were in the deep, dark holes hidden away on the day I went.

As for catching dace on the fly, they will take one quite readily and nearly all UK species of fish will take some sort of fly. After all they are usually just imitations of natural food sources!

I did see a couple of larger chub around the 3lb mark dart off when i waded through swims, very spooky fish so I should imagine float gear would be the best way to target those fish.