Feedback & Reports

Got there 1pm fed elipse pellet off bridge to see if anything was moving as river looked like weak tea, without the milk ...soon got interest of several Barbel , set up stalking rod and waded in the river under the foot bridge , 1 swan shot paternoster banded 12mm pellet was instantly taken by a lethargic Barbel of around 7lbs on landing noticed 10 or so lice on the fish ! water very warm too. back to car set up trotting rod and avon topped ledger rod and chose swim before large tree over bridge ..fed mashed corn and 6mm pellet steady , again waded out 5m to get better control over trotting line , small chub from the off , up to 2lbs , several beautiful wild trout took a liking to single grain of Green Giant corn . Good fun for a couple of hours , came out and gave the straight lead ago with hair rigged corn , this saw the first Barbel only a small one around a 1.1/2 lbs , but this one fought well. Had to try the float again now ...laid on and inched it through for 3 more Barbel of similar size ..nothing better than that.
Back to car for a drink and off down to fast water road side , fed pellet, and some corn , to no result bait all coming back draped in the slimy green weed ? Charles ( the owner came down) and I had a good natter , as I sat on my box in the shallows and in the shade ledgering big chunks of meat at the tail of the rapids ....nothing ? walked further out added a 10lb fluoro direct to braid ,pinched 3 AA on 300mm from size 4 hook ,threaded on a huge chunk of spam and cast well down fast water and let it roll back across , first bite ripped rod round to no avail so fed some broken meat chunks and be 7.30pm had landed , 2 respectable old warriors (Chub) . great day again ..one little incident with our friends the Canoe brigade , one chap was trailing a mini plastic eel behind his canoe , hence to say even when I dipped my rod under the water he snagged my line , his line however was not match for my 12lbs braid , 40 plus canoes pasted me that day and I noticed at least 80% were not wearing any floatation devices at all !!!!!!!

3 Trout, 5 Barbel, 15 Chub

River low, clear skies, very hot. Five Barbel to eight pounds plus one small Chub all taken on pellet by 4 P.M.

5 Barbel, 1 Chub

River low and clear making fishing harder than usual on this stretch. In need of some rain!

1 Barbel, 3 Chub

3 Chub

Nice, quiet beat, I did not see a soul in 3h of fishing between 0700 and 1000, a couple of likely places for Salmon and a good pool at the bottom. No Salmon caught or seen but I will be back here for another go. Thank you.

2 Chub

Very bright day but with river low and clear conditions were always gong to be tough . Started on bread nothing then fished meat and pellet nothing. Finally had some bites on meat when sun had dropped two small barbel and two chunky chub
More worrying was seeing half a dozen Cormorants.

2 Barbel, 2 Chub

5 Barbel, 3 Chub

The water was very shallow and clear. I had 1 small barbel on pellet and 4 medium size chubs up to 4 pounds.

1 Barbel, 4 Chub

1 Barbel, 10 Chub

Only one rod fishing. 10 Chub and 2 Eels, ledgered luncheon meat. Weather overcast all day, WSW wind, temp 19 degrees. Normal summer level but water very warm and coloured following on from heat wave. Enjoyable day at a lovely quite spot!

10 Chub, 2 Other