Feedback & Reports

Nice day, most of the fish came in the late afternoon/evening session. Also caught a large eel.

7 Barbel, 2 Chub, 1 Other

River nice colour and up 1 foot, looked great. Flogged it all day, every swim and all across the river on pellet feeder. Very disappointing result.

2 Chub

Just after setting up for the day and getting bites from the word go. I had my swim ruined by a salmon angler who set up just a few yards from me. He worked the whole beat for 4 hours before leaving me to it! Not best impressed to be honest. It took a long time for the section to come back to life and it wasn't much before 2pm before the fish started to show again. My fishing partner struggled a little after his late arrival and took just 3 small chub but I eventually got the barbel interested and bagged 9 to 9lb 5oz on the CBS River Monster Boilies also took 4 lovely big chub to 5lb 9oz too. Be warned the entrance to the hard standing car park off the main road has a rather aggressive drop and I caught the base of my car on it badly as I entered. The track down to the river is also very unnerving with high thick grass down the middle and generally very overgrown foliage which made it difficult to see the path.

9 Barbel, 7 Chub

Weather very hot and river running clear. 2 chub one on float one on feeder. Very hard going.

2 Chub

Nice day out, with the brilliant scenery. Good meal at The Moon afterwards. Nice healthy, good sized Chub!

5 Chub

We actually fished two days. The 8th. July we fished a stretch just below the Fairview Guest House, where we stayed in great comfort, with the very knowledgeable and great river angler Dave Harrell, who was our guide for the day. On this day it started off very well then we had a tremendous thunderstorm and torrential rain which definitely affected the fishing quite badly. despite this we caught two barbel and 16 chub.
The next day we fished the Lower Carrots and Luggs Mouth stretch,on our own but with a lot of advice and accumulated knowledge from Dave Harrell. We had 6 barbel up to about 8/9 lbs. and 15 chub up to 5lbs. plus, all good fish. All fish were taken trotting down using Dave's special floats and rig suggestions. It was lovely having this whole stretch entirely to ourselves. A most enjoyable trip!

6 Trout, 8 Barbel, 31 Chub

Had some nice chub form the middle part of the beat then moved down to the Luggsmouth section and found the barbel.Saw a few salmon jumping in the pools downstream. Lovely days fishing cheer's WUF.

5 Barbel, 10 Chub

Fished the middle of the beat - most fish taken on feeder fished robin red pellet with a couple on sweetcorn. Great pegs with easy access. Map was easy to read and we found the stretch easily. Great day.

1 Barbel, 13 Chub

Cracking day on a lovely beat.
A little surprised to be confronted on our arrival by a salmon angler working his way down the beat. This is advertised as a 2 rod beat at a price of £22.50 per today. We had booked both available rods and thought the salmon anglers presence was a tad out of order.
Anyway, we finally found the fish which resulted in 11 barbel and 12 chub. Biggest barbel bang on 10lb.
All fish on ground bait feeder with ellipse pellets on the hair.

WUF note - Please contact the Foundation immediately if any other anglers are fishing a beat who shouldn't be there. This beat has a full time Ghillie and we can contact him immediately to address the situation at short notice.

11 Barbel, 12 Chub

Started at 6.30am Barbel. Form the first cast sport slowed as the sun got higher around 10.30am so trotted a stick float in some fast water and had 8 chub to 4lb on sweet corn. Returned to original spot after cloud cover arrived and had 3 more barbel, the best was the last fish that was 9lb 3oz. Another good day.

8 Barbel, 12 Chub