Feedback & Reports

3pm to 6.30pm, rain ceased. Wading and trotting maggot on Lower Courtfield just below little willow. 3 chub in the 2 to 3lb range and at dusk a further chub weighed at 5lb 10oz. Thats 3 chub this season from that swim just short of my target 6lb. Disturbed a smelly dog fox with one of this years release of pheasant in its jaws that hampered its flight up the steel steps. With black mink in area I will put back the electric on fence around our chickens and ducks!

4 Chub

Slow start with the first fish not caught until 1.30pm. Last 15 minutes of the day produced the best barbel of 10lbs 8ozs and the best chub of 4lbs 14ozs.

3 Barbel, 3 Chub

1 Barbel, 1 Chub

A slow day, the river had obviously dropped a couple of feet but was now holding at a low level.
A nice 9lb Barbel caught within the first hour but nothing else until last light when a 4lb chub landed. Not the best day but still a nice accessible stretch. Thanks to Don for advice.

1 Barbel, 1 Chub

Good barbel of 10lbs 12ozs landed towards the end of the day. Best chub was 4lbs 13ozs. Fish caught on pellet.

5 Barbel, 4 Chub

3 Barbel taken from Mid Legg meadow, all on boilie.

10lb 1oz
11lb 6oz
9lb 4oz

First three Barbel caught personally - chuffed to bits (especially with the 2nd one!).

Also to note, 4 or 5 salmon surfacing during the day.

A great day.

3 Barbel

Fished from early to dusk, from the woods to the meadow but could only manage one take and unfortunately lost the fish to a snag. Fishing partner did much better with three lovely barbel.

3 Barbel

Second of two days on courtfield, our party was further reduced today to just the two rods. On arrival, the river looked a little bit friendlier than the day before, having dropped a little and also some of the colour seemed to be fading. We thought we were on for a cracking day, we were so wrong!! Having given it a few hours in legg meadow at the start of the day - just a small chub on trotted maggots to show, we then moved to the fallen tree swim in the woods in the hope of repeating the number of bites from the previous afternoon. I managed a take from a barbel on my first cast, but we then had to wait until about 5.30pm for any more action when we both took a chub each in quick succession. Despite this brightening our mood, the expected feeding spell never materialised and we were left scratching our heads a little, heading home a little crestfallen after three rather trying days.

3 Chub, 2 Other

Only three of the rods ended up fishing. We started in Legg Meadow in the upstream part. Conditions looked great, good flow and a consistent colour. However, in the morning we managed just one fish each, two eels and one chub. The chub and the eels were both PBs (though as first time captures they would be!)
At lunchtime, I walked most of the beat with one of the other rods to assess if a move might be in order. With the flow and the seemingly increasing amount of floating weed, we were having a few issues holding bottom in the meadow so when I found the swim with the huge fallen tree in the woods, it looked to me that it might be much easier to position a bait there in the edge of flow, which would mean that most of your line in the water would then be in the eddy and therefore avoiding the weed. I moved whilst the others stuck it out a while in the meadow. Four or five casts in, the rod hopped round and I struck in to a fish that, once landed, took the scales round to 10lbs 8oz. Delighted would be an understatement. Based on this success, and very much at my invitation, one of the other rods then joined me in the same swim to see if he could break his barbel duck. Unfortunately, despite doing everything right, he just couldn't get a bite. I did get three more resulting in one chub of about 4 pounds and 2 lost barbel where the hook-length parted on rocks (I think). Legg Meadow didn't produce any further fish. Surprisingly, by 5pm all the bites dried up and despite fishing through to dusk we didn't see any further action in the woods.

This was the first of two days booked.

1 Barbel, 2 Chub, 2 Other

1 barbel of 8lbs 4ozs caught near the top end of Legg Meadow. 2 barbel, 10lbs 2ozs & 6lbs and a chub of 4lbs 6ozs taken in the woods.

3 Barbel, 1 Chub