Feedback & Reports

River too high to wade, so the feeder rod came out for Barbel and chub.

A lot of water on after the resent rain. I persisted on 3/4oz feeder, and one lovely barbel tried to drag the rod into the river around 4.30pm.

At 2m, on river levels, at Lydbrook, theres still 2 swims to get comfy in. I had to let a bow out on my line, and you can just about hold bottom with a 3oz feeder. Theres really good flow on!

A couple of snags, to be expected in this sort of conditions. But enjoyable. Ones enough for me, although a few more is always nice.. Maybe tomorrow!

1 Barbel

Booked evening fishing as my son wanted to catch a barbel, he was determined didn’t even care about the pouring rain all day. Got to the bank around 6ish fished till 9pm. Had 2 barbel bites and caught 1 chub and probably lost another chub at reeling in.
Lovely weather even was sunny before dawn. River was slightly higher than usual and bit murky. Lost a couple of tackle as quite snaggy this area is.
Nice time out. Parking is not clear as stated, they are shutting a gates at 7pm had to move the car onto the road to make sure won’t we stay all night.

1 Chub

Good day again on this beat,12 barbel to 6lb feeder meat /pellet, 2 chub both over 4lb , most caught in first section in woods where it's not so snaggy and slightlydeeper .

12 Barbel, 2 Chub

A hard day in bright sunshine and low conditions. Two chub and a barbel on the float from the Boat Pool. Switched to the tip for the afternoon but no wrap rounds. Fished pellet on the float and a mix of small pellets or meat on the feeder on the Wyebank pool.

1 Barbel, 2 Chub

SNAGGY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Literally ran out of terminal tackle and only fished from 5.0pm.Unless knowledgable on terrain, trotting only option.

3 Barbel

Other was an eel. Nice short stretch very snaggy in places, well maintained, barbel and chub on feeder to 4.5lb, river up a bit, nice days fishing in the rain.

5 Barbel, 5 Chub, 1 Other

2 Barbel, 3 Chub

Very slow start to the day , took a gamble with it being bank holiday , canoe traffic wasn’t too bad though .
Arrived first light , no bites whatsoever tried all three pools , feeder & float tactics .
Went home & returned for the evening, river full of life , Chub swirling ….the return paid off , 4 small barbel & one around 8lb to finish off with along a rogue chub .
All fish coming to meat & pellet on the feeder

5 Barbel, 1 Chub

2 Chub

4 Barbel, 3 Chub