Feedback & Reports

3 Barbel

Feeder and pellet tactics. Stayed in a cottage called the Granary, 3 minute drive away.

11 Barbel, 3 Chub

Lovely stretch this. Good parking and good fishing. Normal tactics, feeder and pellets

7 Barbel, 2 Chub

Fairly slow fishing today, plenty of fish showing later on in evening but not feeding.Managed 2 Chub including one of 5 lbs 10 oz on meat,a switch to pellet later on brought 1 Barbel,around 6 lbs.

1 Barbel, 2 Chub

fished 7 - 12.30 morning session only. warm day with plenty cloud cover fish really started responding later on in session

3 Barbel, 3 Chub

2 Barbel, 4 Chub

As others have mentioned not many maintained swims to fish so those that are there are probably hit quite hard – moved around them and had a few chub and late evening Barbel
I did see the celebrity otter too!

1 Barbel, 8 Chub

Another hot day on the river. River still very low and still suffering from algae bloom. Amazingly we had three barbel in the heat of the day and another two towards dusk. Floating weed still a problem but we overcame this in part by using backleads. An otter surfaced two rod lengths out from my peg, it was eating a small fish.

5 Barbel, 2 Chub

A very hot and gruelling day. Floating weed not quite so bad as previous few days. River was low, brown coloured and looked lifeless. We tried hard with very little to report. My mate had a barbel about 3pm in the heat of the day ( 31c ) whereas I had to wait till the last hour for one chub and one barbel. A tough day.

2 Barbel, 1 Chub

Disappointing lack of available pegs, I counted 4 , 3 near the top of the length and 1 at the rope pool. Not much choice when 3 of us were fishing. 1 rod caught 4 barbel near the top including 3 in successive casts and another barbel came from the rope pool. The river had an algal bloom and was a dirty brown colour.

5 Barbel, 15 Chub