Feedback & Reports

11 Barbel to 8lbs 11oz. Evening session making the easy level walk up the beat from Glen Cottage. The steep rocky track was dry and perfectly do-able in 4x4, the Volvo saloon of the cottage visitors clearly made it too. The old railway stone pillars had 5 anglers fishing them, 2 on WUF Lower Ballingham bank and 3 on the Aramstone bank (adjacent to the WUF beat) and I made it 6 for a biteless while.
Away from the pillars was much more agreeable and so was the space and the solitude. Stunning evening vistas into the setting sun, with threatening black cells on a relentless, deliberate I would say, path towards me; you knew it was going to happen, and the same could be said of the fishing. Lovely beat.

Fishing the bottom pool after speaking to Don I caught my 1st babel within minutes of casting and caught 8 more all on pellet, biggest was 5lb and we had chub up to 3lb.

Started fishing at 9:30am, two of us fishing, caught my 1st barbel within 30sec (7lb,8oz) followed one hour later by two more 5lb 7oz and 5lb 4oz, then moved to upper stretch. Caught four more between us all between 5lbs and 7lbs 8oz and missed one. Good location/access and swims to fish.

Not sure how many but over 15 trouties all around eight inches, all were taken on olive cdc emerger. One was maybe nudging 9 inches. Fished this beat 4 or five times now, good fun indeed, every time catching well over a dozen.

CMS - Barbel 8.6lbs and 11.8lbs caught on pellet in Legg Meadow
RS - Barbel 10.3lbs caught on boilies in Legg Meadow
Don most helpful again.

6 trout (12" 10" 8"8"8"8").Goldhead PTN(3)Flashback Hare's Ear(1)Red Tag(2). River in good condition - enjoyable afternoon's fishing. All fish returned.

Fished the Rope Pool. Conditions hot and sunny and the river was very low. Managed to catch 4 Barbel, 5.5lb, 6.5 lb, 7lb and 9.5lb. All on Pellet and feeder. We have booked this stretch for tomorrow Wed 12 Sept, and will try another part of this stretch.

This was our first visit to the attractive lower stretch at Sugwas and we struggled to locate barbel in the snaggy and very clear water. Late into the evening we had a couple of mid-sized fish each to show for our efforts. I was a bit concerned at having a full sized bull for company in my peg but the old boy seemed friendly enough. I was somewhat relieved when he sauntered off to join his girls.

Second days fishing on WUF waters. This is quite a challenging beat but worth the effort although now the opposit bank is fished on WUF tickets this does put pressure on the popular areas. None the less we still had a good day landing 11 barbel up to 9lb, all caught on pellets and boillies.

9 Barbel to 9lbs. Fished opp Weir Garden. Caught on pellets and mini boilies. Fished 1pm to 7pm. Fantastic fishing, weather and scenery!