Feedback & Reports

No fish at all until evening. Then it went crazy. 14 barbel to 9lbs 10oz. Lost one barbel well in excess of 10lbs. 3 chub to 3lbs 9oz. Method used swim feeder and pellets.

14 Barbel, 3 Chub

Wanted to try a single handed rod here having fished earlier in the season with heavier fly gear. Low clear water made for very easy wading and showed up some very interesting details of the riverbed. Well worth the visit just for that; a deep cut in the bedrock at one point which was a revelation and a huge pocket/lie completely out of context with any signs on the surface.
As for the fishing; too many Chub. My apologies to the coarse anglers amongst you but if you can't 'bag up' here then take up golf! Just paddle out from the left bank to the drop-off and see if you can count them all....
I finally managed to avoid the pests and land some decent trout of around the pound mark by fishing just under the surface of the faster water with a #6 double Bann Shrimp....
Surprisingly few canoes for a Saturday and remarkably well behaved, especially the serious outdoorsy types...

3 Trout, 3 Chub

All caught on meat. A good half day day in fair weather conditions. A nice beat.

2 Barbel, 5 Chub

Warm, overcast day with sunny intervals. We had not fished this stretch before but the river looked in good shape. Most of the chub were caught on float fished 8mm pellets and bread flake and all were all quality fish in the 2lb to 4lb range with a couple pushing 5lb and every swim we fished on both banks produced fish. The barbel were caught on the left bank, 3 from the very last swim and 4 from a swim in the middle of the length. They were caught on 8mm Robin Red pellets and Source boilies and all were between 5lb and 7lb and all in excellent condition. An excellent day on a excellent stretch of river.

7 Barbel, 31 Chub

The day started off overcast and showers, started off in the swim at bottom of fishery, a little tight with over hanging trees. Started to fish with pellet and groundbait with a few little bites, changed to bread crust and the chub started to bite.
What a lovely day fishing for chub but unfortunately no barbel. The water was rising and the sun started to come out so left at 3.30pm. This will be a great winter fishery with the amount of chub.

24 Chub

My friend caught his first barbel and I caught a river load of chub on fly.

2 Barbel, 20 Chub

No barbel today but my friend caught a small river carp. I had a lot of chub on the fly and on bread crust. This is a small, well kept productive stretch. We will be back.

20 Chub, 1 Other

River was low and fairly slow flowing, we fished a ground bait feeder with 1 foot hook length all fish fell to luncheon meat. The largest fish was 3lb 9oz.

8 Chub

River was low and clear but fished well in the morning then turned quiet in the afternoon. Most fish came to pellets feeder tactics.

1 Barbel, 23 Chub

Great to be back on this well maintained but small stretch again and a good days fishing. Fished four hours early morning and four in the afternoon/early evening. Usual variety of baits used and caught on all. Many thanks.

4 Barbel, 12 Chub