Feedback & Reports

It must be 5 years since I was here last , where has the time gone ! Seems like yesterday. Lydbrook is a stunning location , many many canoes here but didn’t interfere too much with the fishing , only a few oblivious idiots on their phones or swimmers not looking , but didn’t spoil the day.

It was quite literally a fish a chuck here , amazing ! All barbel were very small , biggest was 3lb but who cares when you’re having fun , it’s great to see them at this stage , hope for the future stocks . Catch of the day was a whopping chub just shy of 5lbs ,brilliant!

Most caught on pellet no loose feed needed here , and remainder caught rolling meat on the centre pin , great place to try this method . A fantastic day , weather perfect , river still quite low but great fun had by all , thanks WUF

15 Barbel, 1 Chub

Fantastic days fishing on rolling meat

16 Barbel

7 Barbel, 1 Chub

4 Chub

This report is for anglers CT and AW.

CT - 11 Barbel and 2 Chub

AW - 3 Barbel and 4 Chub, the "other" was an Eel

14 Barbel, 6 Chub, 1 Other

Fished the morning. swimmers everywhere in the afternoons and evening. Very hot can’t blame them. All caught on the float. Very enjoyable.

5 Barbel, 4 Chub

Spent the afternoon rolling meat. River low as expected but ideal for wading around various swims. Funnily enough most positive takes were when canoe track was highest. Great fun rolling meat under canoes.

10 Barbel, 7 Chub

Arrived at 05.30am maps and directions were excellent as usual, river was extremely low & the weather had changed overnight from a predicted cool & cloudy day to a very hot sunny day and boy was the fishing hard, it was hard enough trying to find water deep enough never mind trying to find holding fish and long enough before they got spooked by the splash of my lead. Sure enough second cast in the first pool got me a fish before it went dead, moved very quickly into my next swim and sure enough first cast got me another fish until sun was high in the sky and struggled for the next 4 hours walking up and down the beat trying to locate fish, tried the usual methods and bait, pellet, meat & boilie.
Thanks WUF and Land Owner for providing excellent access to an excellent river, will be back again soon, after some well earned rain! ll

1 Barbel, 1 Chub

Weather forecast changed overnight (nothing new there!) from predicted cool overcast conditions into hot, muggy sunny day, so i was not expecting a red letter day!
Arrived at 05.30am, struggled to find fish let alone water deep enough to fish, when i did caught a large Chub and small Barbel very early on, fished a number of pools but i suspect each time a cast my lead in i would spook the shoal, therefore the first cast would be the only time i would catch, and true to form it ended that way, tried all baits and usual methods but one the sun broke through bites dried up, persevered until mid-day when increased canoe traffic became unacceptable then when home early to watch the F1.
Thanks again WUF and Land Owner for allowing us access to such a great stretch of river.

1 Barbel, 1 Chub

Absolute zilch