Feedback & Reports

I just popped over for a couple of hours on a warm, cloudy, and breezy afternoon. There was plenty of insect life but I didn't spot a fish anywhere which was a little disconcerting. Nevertheless I managed to tease a small brownie from the Weir which was returned.

1 Trout

Arrived at 10.20 am and chose second swim over the bridge. Quite taken back as to why this swim has had another bank access cut to it and a area of aprx 5mx3m flattened!!! And reeds lent towards river? Quite dodgy as it's hard to judge where waters edge actually is plus the reeds are quite tangley and slippery!!
Anyway, fed some pellet by hand along with corn. Barbel from the off and twice never had time to flick bait runner on. Good strong fish ranging from 1.1/2 lbs to 7-8 lbs. Continuous hand feeding corn seemed to work (had to because dropped my baiting needle... fell through reeds!!), 2 grains direct to size 10 barbless. Chublets were smashing the bait every cast so I switched to trotting gear for some good fun laying on way over depth and inching it through. This also produced some real nice clean dace and two wild brown trout. Sport slowed around 4-30pm which seems the norm for me at this venue. Had a chat to the beat owner on my way out and left feeling well happy with a great day on a very productive section of this super river.
Owner Note : We write to advise that we very much appreciate constructive feedback, and wish to reassure Anglers that we regularly maintain the access to all swims on our Beat and the matter of the flattened / overhanging weeds at the second swim over the bridge has been dealt with, and we are very grateful to the Angler concerned for bringing this matter to our attention.

2 Trout, 9 Barbel, 24 Chub, 7 Other

First time on this beat and what a wonderful place it is. We walked the stretch to begin with and chose a couple of areas although there was plenty more to tempt you.
We had four barbel from the first place before moving mid afternoon and taking another fourteen barbel with plenty of bonus chub. Groundbait feeder and 10mm pellets scored best today.
Wildlife included more mandarin chicks, sand martins sat in their nests, a stalking heron and of course the ever present buzzard. No kingfisher today, must have been its day off!

18 Barbel, 10 Chub

0 fish

Small 8 inch trout caught on a pheasant tail. Healthy & in good condition. Released without harm.

1 Trout

Didn't see any rising fish till very late on, and there was no interest in the weighted nymph. One or two rises to klinkhammer.

Fished the afternoon into the evening. Not much rising during the day with the odd olive coming off the water. Caught one of about 12ozs on ptn. More rises in the evening, not sure to what. Went through the fly box and rose and missed a few on various different patterns but couldn't determine what the fish were focussed on. Went away a tad frustrated. Pleasant day out.

1 Trout

The weather was sunny/cloud. The river condition was good. Blanked, tried every method and nothing worked. Not even any takes. Disappointing but just one of those days.

River up slightly, fish caught on pellet wagler and feeder. Be warned this is a very snaggy stretch lots of feeders lost on snags. This is a very good stretch with good access but is very expensive tackle wise.

17 Barbel, 44 Chub

Pulled required amount of himalayan balsam again

7 Barbel, 6 Chub