Feedback & Reports

Great day river low and clear and temps lower. Barbel to over 9lbs all caught on pellet and feeder. Started early but didn't fish past 6.30pm so I guess another feeding spell missed.

7 Barbel, 3 Chub

Barbel were a good stamp, with two going over 8lb. I fished the Wood Creel stretch. The river bed is rocky so I lost few feeders and hooks. A nice stretch and helpful bailiff.

6 Barbel, 13 Chub

Fished the wooded section from mid afternoon until dark, river had a bit of colour to start with but this cleared later on. Caught barbel to 7Ib and chub to 3Ib also one eel, all on halibut pellet.

4 Barbel, 5 Chub, 1 Other

Perfect conditions but nobody told the Barbel. Still very pleasant and enjoyable day!

4 Chub

Perfect conditions but fish were not keen. Sheer persistence was rewarded with 4 Barbel to 8lb and 6 Chub to 4lb. All on Halibut pellets in Wood section.

4 Barbel, 6 Chub

Chub caught on luncheon meat freelined. Two eels on the same method.

1 Chub, 2 Other

River low with some colour, barbel in great condition. Three eels landed which is great to see them in the river and even funnier on the end of my mates line!!!

6 Barbel, 2 Chub, 3 Other

Following on from yesterday's trip to Wyebank, my son (10) and I shared a rod on the next day on Courtfield. A 4.30am alarm call saw us settled in my favourite swim in the woods on Courtfield, (where I'd enjoyed a good day the previous Monday 19 June). However, action was somewhat slower than I'd expected - the odd chubby rattle on the tip now and then, but nothing developing. An hour or so in, we had a very modest chub - about a pound - followed by another a half hour or so later. Then it happened, the tip rattled, rattled again and then heaved right over and junior was in to a decent fish that swam low and slow. Taking his dad's instructions well, he brought the fish slowly towards the waiting net, only to have it rush off again in to the current. Second time of asking, we netted it and having given the fish a really good rest, we weighed it at 8lb 4oz. Another long rest before the fish swam off strongly, junior beaming from ear to ear.
Next cast and dad's turn with the rod, this time the culprit being a 5lb chub - lovely! The start of the feeding spell? No, turned out to be the last action for some time, so weighing up the long drive back to Oxford and a river rapidly filling up with canoes, we decided to head home.
All fish came to paste wrapped halibut pellets, either 14mm (singles) or 8mm (multiples, 2 or 3).
Thanks once again to WUF and Don Macer-Wright. What a brilliant couple of days.

1 Barbel, 3 Chub

4 Barbel, 1 Chub

A little cooler than the previous few days on a river still low . The 3 off us headed for the wood section and struggled to get the barbel to feed. We did manage to winkle out 5 between us with one of us catching 3 of them . Not that this bothered one of our group whose only bite of the day produced a barbel of 10lb 6oz . All fish caught on feeder and pellets or boilies.

5 Barbel, 7 Chub