Feedback & Reports

Cracking day today my best trip so far plenty of action through out the afternoon morning was abit slow with only a few chub all rangeing from 2lb to 5lb and the barbel 4lb to 7lb roughly

2 Barbel, 11 Chub

4 Barbel, 3 Chub

5 Barbel, 13 Chub

Enjoyable day, whilst they certainly weren’t climbing up the rod there was plenty of action at times. Strangely no bites from 6-8pm. The work Stefan the bailiff is doing here is excellent, the beat is well looked after but still feels very natural.

4 Barbel, 7 Chub

6 Chub

With my Covid symptoms gone we were 4 again today but I travelled alone and stayed up or down banks from them.
A bit sunnier in spells than yesterday I'm told but river still had a nice tinge of colour and was over a foot up on norm.
We all caught barbel, which is my top criteria for a very successful trip, from 4 different swims between the top and bottom of the beat - two with 6, one with two and one with a lone 7lber. One of the two was a real beauty of 10lb 04 and a first ever barbel double for happy Steve, so happy that he actually wrote woo hoo in a message, unheard of for him. As usual no one was near him to take a photo. Two of the 15 were babbers but all the rest 5 - 7lb apart from Barney. We were all lazy and stuck to feeders but the flow was lovely and the runs clear enough so the float would have gone through nice, maybe next week. All the barbel came to pellets. Biggest chub 4.08.
A great day on our favourite beat, thanks WUF and despite not seeing him today, great work from Stefan.
'Today is such a beautiful day, all my troubles and my worries seem to, flutter away....' (Samantics)

15 Barbel, 11 Chub

no barbel today but loads of chub and an eel,
loads of swim feeders lost in the snags

30 Chub, 1 Other

Another cracking day on Middle Hill becoming a favourite beat on the W&U books. River had dropped considerably since Sunday only about 6-8” up with a hint of colour so fairly slow in the mid part of the day. Barbel to 9lb 7oz and chub to 4lb . Be back in the Autumn/winter no doubt

5 Barbel, 11 Chub

Nice conditions, caught on meat and pellet ledgering

7 Barbel, 14 Chub

Wow what a day. We caught the river rising from 0.7 to 0.9 and conditions were perfect. 24 barbel between us all with one angler having 12. Fished the whole stretch and apart from the hot sunny period between 12 and 3pm we had action regularly through the day. Barbel were all above 5Ib with biggest going 9Ib 8oz.

Groundbait feeders with pellet and boilies doing the business. Thank you WUF for a great stretch.

24 Barbel, 20 Chub