Feedback & Reports

A few fish rising throughout the day but the nymphs provided most of the sport in the more oxygenated water. One of the highlights of the day was watching a squirrel swim across the river – not seen that before!

4 Trout, 5 Grayling

- Good directions, and easy parking in the layby right next to the beat.
- Very easy walking access on both banks of the short beat. Steep banks to get up and down to the spots, but (somewhat broken) steps on one spot and steps cut into the grass on the other, so no real problem.
- Very low, clear water. This is a shallow stretch, so on arrival we were very doubtful we would catch anything given the conditions, but we persevered and fished the left hand bank at the downstream end. Trotted meat down on a loafer.
- For two rods (packing up early afternoon when the rain set in): 17 chub all 3lb to 5lb. 1 eel.
- Lovely days fishing with not too many canoes, Would certainly return. Waders would have made life an awful lot easier rather than casting for miles.

17 Chub, 1 Other

A couple of hours with the feeder rod at dawn made me realise that legering wasn't going to be productive so I "mountaineered" (you'll understand this is you've fished this beat - it certainly gets the blood pumping) back to the car to change gear and set about a day of trotting.

The forecast of an overcast, drizzly day was way off the mark as I stood surveying a very low river in the blazing sunshine. I thought I was in for a gruelling day. However, I roved the stretch and tried several swims, catching plenty of chub and barbel on the stick float. What a fantastic way to fish for them.

Chub from chublets to 4lb and barbel from 4 1/2 to 7 1/2 llb.

10 Barbel, 15 Chub

Nine small chub caught trotting maggots during the day. All six barbel came in the last hour at sunset on pellet feeder or PVA bags with krill boilies. The biggest barbel was exactly 8lb.

6 Barbel, 9 Chub

Two brown trout to 12 inches. Both from the faster water on small olive or Klinkhammer patterns.

2 Trout

Just fished the morning, 12 Chub no sign of any Barbel

13 Chub

2 chub, 4.5 pounds from the faster shallow water in the wood

2 Chub, 1 Other

2 Barbel, 60 Chub

One barbel was 10lb 4oz. With the river being so low not a bad result

4 Barbel

Conditions not ideal, river low/bright sunshine. A light shower resulted in some late afternoon/early evening action, with 1 barbel and several large chub in the total of 25.

1 Barbel, 25 Chub, 6 Other