Feedback & Reports

Swim feeder with garlic and chilli soaked luncheon meat on hair. First cast of the day too! And then ….
…. SFA!

1 Chub

Lovely condition chub, caught in beats 3, 5 and 6, all on the left bank. Bites dried up as the sun came out and the temperature rose. Fishing a cage feeder.

3 Chub

A 3 hour afternoon session. Fished 12mm pellets with crushed pellet feeder. River was rising, coloured and very fast following the rain showers at the end of last week and the weekend. Fished right bank beat 2 more or less opposite the pump house. first hour saw 2 Chub around 5lb, both with lice but still looked quite healthy and put up a good fight. Next two hours were very quiet indeed but the air display from the Sand Martins provided ample entertainment.

2 Chub

2 Barbel, 4 Chub

Three fabulous days fishing on beats 2,3 and 5. Lots of chub, and some really nice fish up to 4lb. Float fished corn, feeding hemp - almost a fish a cast. Triple hair rigged spicy pellets accounted for the bigger fish. Worked hard to find the Barbel which were very elusive. Opportunities did occur, but sadly not landed. Early mornings and dusk are still the time to catch, but to be fair Mark’s hospitality at the Rhydspence inn was too tempting to stay on the bank that late!

80 Chub

1 Barbel, 10 Chub

second day on the stretch, fished beats 5 and 2, managed a couple of barbel, looked very healthy but absolutely smothered in lice (another angler reported the same). Still loads of small chub around

2 Barbel, 6 Chub

3 Barbel, 3 Chub

Tough. Conditions seemed pretty good, fished hard into dusk, plenty of small chub (>1lb) around but no barbel bites.

9 Chub

Found a lovely looking swim below the island downstream of the Toll Bridge. Lots of bites from small fish on meat, removing the bait, but no success.