Feedback & Reports

8 Trout

River coming down fast, still with loads of colour. 1 nice chub, 1 Barbel around 5/6 lbs. Used Spam for bait about halfway up the first meadow. It should be mentioned that the hill getting back out will take no prisoners, worth remembering if you're as old and unfit as me !!

1 Barbel, 1 Chub

Water high here gave up at 1pm

1 Barbel, 3 Chub

2 Trout

River still very high. Managed to find some slacks to fish at the top of the stretch. Big/smelly hook baits were the order of the day. Biggest barbel being 9lbs 5oz. Decent sized chub also.

3 Barbel, 4 Chub

Good conditions but a struggle….one small barbel at the stairs and one nice one of 9lb 10oz in the second field….would have expected a bit more give the colour of the water and temperature but the better fish was a trip saver.

2 Barbel, 3 Chub, 1 Other

Two fished, challenging conditions with river up and racing through and with short nature of this beat it was difficult to find any real slacks to fish. I did manage 1 barbel (8lb) and 1 Chub (4.5 lb) fishing Close in from middle swim which we had to share in the afternoon. Just about held bottom by adding 2 ounce lead to my 4.5 ounce feeders. Tough day but my biggest ever barbel made it all worth while.

Top tip - Park in the lay-by and walk to river in wet conditions. I initially tried to park just inside entrance gate and it took me 10 mins to get it back outside after wheels getting no traction on wet ground and churning up the mud.

1 Barbel, 1 Chub

We drove down the track to the gate at the bottom. The track was in all seriousness dangerous. Water had scoured out a lot of the track. We decided to abandon as we were worried about getting back up. Also the field was waterlogged. Fortunately we all had 4WD but it was difficult to get back up with the big ruts.
You can park at the top of the hill but we’re all getting on a bit so it wasn’t an option. We will go back but in the summer.

A tough but enjoyable day on the river running well over a metre higher than normal. Only one or two swims available where feeders / leads could hold in the slacks. We think this is probably a better summer venue given lack of high water swims. Nonetheless the weather was good on the day and we will be back next year!

8 Chub

13 Trout, 28 Grayling