Feedback & Reports

Took advantage of the discounted evening session after spending the morning on a different stretch during the heavy rain. Managed 4 chub on pellets and feeder at the bottom end of the beat.

4 Chub

Extremely hot day and the fishing was hard going. Managed a chub in the morning and one early evening. Fished all the swims on the left bank and a couple on the right, but the fish were elusive today. Used feeder and pellets.

2 Chub

First time on this beautiful beat. Boiling hot so was hard going but we found chub in the deeper water and some in the faster water. We will be back

15 Chub

A very hot and cloudless day! River quite low and clear. Lots of chub under the bridge but hard going until the evening. Five chub on ledgered meat mid flow and one trotting bread. One large eel.

6 Chub, 1 Other

Bright & hot all day. Bites hard to come by. Lot of baiting & changing swims.

Others: 2 Eels & 5 Dace

1 Barbel, 6 Chub, 7 Other

2 Barbel, 11 Chub

Lovely, well kept beat but struggled to locate any real features to work with. Tried various methods, trotting, feeder and straight lead with pellet. All fish caught were on the feeder and pellet.

1 Barbel, 3 Chub

I wandered down the swim and thought the gravelly stretch before the rapids would be somewhere to winkle out a sole barbel but wouldn't hold fish. Given the weather I cast out anyway and had a chublet, then after no activity packed up and wandered down to the end peg on Foy common. There was an enormous shoal of chub across the whole river, 25 chub is an estimate but it could have easily been far more had I prepared hook lengths and been a more competent angler. I wasn't out to haul fish out of the river all day like it was a match. The cherry on the cake was a 3lb 2oz perch, a greedy dace even snaffled an 8mm pellet. Every chub that came out on the common was between 4lb and 5lb. I then moved back to the bridge in the hope to catch a barbel and wasn't disappointed. 2 chublets, a barbel and a sole roach from the reedy gravel swim. Fantastic days fishing.

1 Barbel, 25 Chub, 3 Other

The river looked the part and tried everything but unfortunately I didn’t catch

Nice stretch with good step access to pegs. Water quite low and clear. Most Chub on trotted meat though the biggest (around 5lbs) took pellet on the feeder. Three barbel (lost a fourth), biggest around 7lbs, ground bait feeder with variety of hookbaits. First came around 10am, swim went very quiet during middle of the day, took a break for lunch and returned round 4pm and it went crazy for a couple of hours.

3 Barbel, 8 Chub, 1 Other