Feedback & Reports

First time to Sugwas. Access to fishery is great but access to river not so. There is only one clear swim to fish the river and that has overhead willows that limit reach. There are couple of other points that probably count as swims but they are on steep banks and very close to a live electric fence.
We fished all these swims as luckily only two tickets had been sold on our two days. If more anglers were booked I don't think we could all have fished. Access under the electric fence involved passing gear over and rolling on the ground under, then climbing down steep bank and perching on an unhooking mat. Not for everyone and a warning should be added to the fishery description to make this clear. I wouldn't have risked the steep bank swims if it had been very wet.
So in summary a lovely beat and great river but only one swim. The river was coloured and fast.

1 Chub

all caught on spiders largest 1.5lb

8 Trout

River looked in great condition, but fishing was still quite hard. All bites came on meat or pellet. Great parking arrangement, easy walk to river and good swims available. 4 Fished.

3 Barbel, 7 Chub

2 Chub, 1 Other

A really nice day with sunshine and cloud. I didn't catch anything, although tried all of the wood swims. The river was very chocolate in colour and running through fairly fast, with a lot of debris and weed flowing through.

1 Salmon, 1 Barbel, 11 Chub

River was in heavy spate after rain - but a great beat.

4 Trout

The river looked good today and found what looked like classic barbel swim… fished it hard for several hours and tried everything, pellet, boilies, meat and corn but could only find a few chub… Must be doing something wrong!

6 Chub

several barbel throughout the day biggest weighing 8lb 12oz, 8lb 2oz and 7lb 12 oz, the others averaging 5-7lb, lots of small chub and dace caught trotting a float with sweetcorn, once feeding it was 1 a chuck. Great days fishing

7 Barbel, 40 Chub