Feedback & Reports

Lovely day, 3 Barbel on time bomb feeder, with alternating pellet and meat hookbait.

3 Barbel

Pellet feeder in middle of wood, nothing in all other pegs.

4 Barbel, 4 Chub

This was our 3rd visit to this beat & the river was the highest & fastest we've seen it here, with a lot of debris & leaves hitting the line. Boys Rocks & the 1st swim had almost disappeared. Fished ground bait feeder, pellet & meat but struggled all day, despite trying several swims. Caught 1 chub mid afternoon & just over an 8lb barbel at the end of the day. We will definitely be back soon.

1 Barbel, 1 Chub

Fished a rising river. 1 barbel 8lb to feeder and 10mm pellet.

1 Barbel

The river had been up pushing through & lots of debris present. Great day on a great section, can't wait to go back with a few less tree's floating by.

4 Barbel

Enjoyable day but river still needs a good flush through.

7 Barbel

Difficult day, should have fished better

1 Barbel, 1 Chub

What an amazing place. Waggler fished meat/maggot in fast water until 3pm when the river was shadowed - nothing. Then feeder fished pellet and long hook link and caught 2 chub and a barbel at the end of the fast water. Thank you.

1 Barbel, 2 Chub

Hard day as expected with river low. Fed hemp and caster. Managed two decent chub and lost one barbel to a hook pull. Not many fish showing really either.
A bit of a gripe... I removed a few bits of angling origin litter up the top end, including a discarded barbed hook. One of my chub was gut hooked with someone else's line coming out of it..I ended up cutting the line. Meanwhile my barbless hook had fallen out in the net. I didn't get my ticket checked and I'd be happy to have my gear checked to ensure compliance.
Canoe traffic was light but a party in the afternoon made up for it. I always make myself visible when I see them coming and in the past have had polite canoeists go right over the other side to minimise inconvenience. No such luck. These decided to come towards me a third of the way across. Rising above it I wound in to avoid my line being touched and was ignoring them as they came right in front saying something about "Mr Fisherman" so I suggested they could have gone over the other side. This prompted a comment I didn't hear which was met with laughter before they carried on splashing around, shouting and hooting on top of about 10 quids worth of bait. I assume they had hired them as they looked the canoeing equivalent of "noddies" and hope the hire company can better instill good practice in customers in future. I am sure some canoeists are just oblivious and mean no particular harm but the "we don't care" attitude of this group was frustrating.

2 Chub

River exceptionally low, virtually no flow and clear. Very warm and sunny day. Fished all along the stretch from the rock down to the caravan. No Barbel or Chub activity. The only species willing to oblige were Eels! Avoid luncheon meat unless you wish to catch them by design. All methods and many different baits tried. Quite a lot of Salmon (we think) activity, 4 fish spotted during the day.

3 Other