Feedback & Reports

only fished this beat in the winter when everything is a bit wet and slippery- and a trip to the stones and back is a bit of a suicide mission...a bit of an easier scramble this time of year. Plenty of barbel feeding early morning - had 6 before 7am - all on 15mm pellet. when your arm needs a rest, stick on some meat and you get chub instead. more like a quarry than a river bed - with lots of square sharp edged boulders to snag or cut you off. Really disappointed to catch several fish dragging yards of line around with them...braided hooks lengths...and all with barbed hooks. if you're going to fishy these types of snaggy areas you need to think about line and rig choices. yes i lost half a dozen fish in the rocks - but i only left em with a 4 inch hooklength and a size 12 barbless hook - not yards of tackle.

14 Barbel, 20 Chub

10 Chub

We caught 12 chub, 1 Dace and 1 eel on the feeder using pellets and meat.

12 Chub, 2 Other

Made the trek over the hill on an overcast day.
Barbel 8.7 and 8.9, chub from 2-5 lb caught all through the day.

2 Barbel, 60 Chub

Fished lucky stones low and clear, 2 x barbel 8,7 and 8,10 chub most of the day between 3-4lb

2 Barbel, 60 Chub

19.7 degree water temperature and a cool start were promising despite the clear skies. Made the trek down to the lucky stones and started fishing up into the fast water whilst fishing the float line with hemp and meat. Just three chub on bomb and bag in the first two hours so swapped to the float. 16 chub and a harem scarem 9lb foul hooked Barbel followed. Swapped back to the bomb and added two chub and an 8.11 barbel for a cracking day's fishing.

2 Barbel, 22 Chub

Fished lucky stone in the woods section.
The heaven’s opened and conditions to and from the stone quite treacherous.
Biblical rain horizontal in nature saw barbel jumping but not teeding.
Again, all methods, tactics and baits caught but the water temperature was like a hot bath.
One eel was the other.
Now reached the age where cardiac hill and the Tibetan climb are too much!

5 Chub, 1 Other

Not the easiest of days! Others were eels to 2lb or so

1 Barbel, 16 Chub, 4 Other

2 Barbel, 4 Chub

2barbel load of chub

2 Barbel, 20 Chub