Feedback & Reports

A big plus on arrival as ground dry and hard so able to drive down the treeline and park by the river halfway alone the beat. Walked the beat and good to see number of swims cut out upstream, access to all the swims is excellent with strimming been done with a balance between convenience for the angler and maintaining that natural/wild feeling.
We fished 3 swims downstream of the trees. Garlic meat was the go to bait accounting for all but 1 of the chub, the other and the 2 barbel succumbing to paste wrapped green lipped mussel 15mm boilie. Chub to 4lb and barbel 4-5lbs.
River seemed low and clear, blistering hot day with factor 50 not really working. 1 angler on far bank in latter part of day but he obligingly chose not to fish opposite us.

2 Barbel, 10 Chub

After a Chub a cast a couple of miles downstream the previous day I was surprised to only manage two in sixteen hours from Sugwas. Water level low and only two swims fishable on the top stretch, one of those required an underhand cast. So much river, so few swims. I might give it it another try when the water levels improve.

2 Chub

Given the hot , windy and sunny conditions with the level at 0.1m at RoW, this was always going to be a challenging day for the 3 of us fishing.

The video on the WUF website overstates how easy it is to fish and most pegs required above average agility. The meadow area does not have many accessible swims. Not much sign of recent bank maintenance. Note the opposite bank appears to be some form of club water with numerous cut out swims. 3 anglers fished opposite and we did not notice them catch anything

Having said that 4 chub were caught on the float , the best going around 5Lbs and the day was made by a very nice 7Lb thickset barbel that went off like a train.

Despite the barbel, this is probably not a fishery we would be returning to .

1 Barbel, 4 Chub

Its not often that you can say that the Barbel outnumbered the Chub. Happy Dayz!

10 Barbel, 5 Chub

Very difficult hot and bright day. Other fish was an eel!

1 Barbel, 2 Chub, 1 Other

2 fished 11 til 8
River lowish but with colour
Between us 1 barbel 9 pounds 2 x 3 pounds chub and a few chublets...generally slow apart from one swim...

1 Barbel, 2 Chub

Decent siz 3/4 pound approx 20 cm

1 Trout

Lovely stretch of water, weather was 28*c, clear sky, tough going. All fish fell to heavy tungsten nymph.

3 Trout, 1 Grayling

Sunrise start but slow, first two Barbel came between 9am - 10:30am. Third Barbel at around 4pm . Fished through to sunset with only occasion Chub. Fish caught mainly on pellets
Other was Eel on Pellet

3 Barbel, 13 Chub, 1 Other

16 Barbel, 21 Chub