Feedback & Reports

River low and gin clear but had still had a great day, lovely stretch of water.

1 Trout, 1 Grayling, 5 Barbel, 1 Chub

Lovely day, 1 chub all day. Will be back in October.

1 Chub

Nice stretch and easy fishing in low water conditions. However, most fish were in the 2-3lb range which bodes well for the future.

9 Barbel, 8 Chub

Low level - all fish caught on small pellets/meat cubes.

6 Barbel, 4 Chub

River very low. A beautiful stretch with easy access but the water was too warm and unfortunately we both blanked. Needs a good flushing through, will be back.

A and son J today and they started on the first croy on the feeder catching 2 Chub early. After a long biteless period, they decided to move downstream opposite the Lugg mouth, hoping the faster water would produce. A caught nothing to add to his earlier fish but son J who we've decided would catch a Barbel in a cup of Tea got a late fish on pellet and a Chub on luncheon meat.
All in all I don't quite know what to make of this beat, we were a bit disappointed that we saw nobody over the four days that may have been able to give us some info on swims etc. On reflection I think we got the best out of this beat that we could, P certainly proved the float could produce.

1 Barbel, 3 Chub

Same conditions, beautiful for fishing but not ideal for catching fish! P and myself today and P opted to fish both float and feeder from the first croy. I chose the next croy down to do the same. I started on the float with 8mm pellet and P on the feeder, with no response on the feeder. P switched to the float and caught Chub straight away but despite fishing exactly the same way, I couldn't get a bite and after a couple of hours on the feeder, decided to move upstream to the Oxford run which looked good but was slow with the added problem of lots of floating weed coming down which I'm convinced caused me to pull out of a Barbel about 6pm. Alas a blank for me but P did well with 14 Chub to 4lbs on the float and 2 Barbel and 2 Chub on the feeder.

2 Barbel, 16 Chub

Bright and clear again. P and K fished this beat today with P opting to try some float fishing from the first croy downstream of the hut. He started with sweetcorn but couldn't buy a bite so switched to 8mm banded pellet. This did the trick and P finished with 8 Chub and a small Barbel, K fished the feeder all day but unfortunately blanked.

1 Barbel, 8 Chub

Bright and clear weather conditions, river low. A and son J on this beat today and with little info to go on decided to fish close to the first croy downstream. Bites were hard to come by during the day although J had a Barbel early and ended up with 2 barbel and 4 Chub. Dad A finished up with 5 Chub, all fish came on groundbait feeder with pellet hookbaits.

2 Barbel, 9 Chub

Day 2.
Caught 8 Barbel throughout the day, 5 from one swim (100 yards down stream of the hut) and 3 from the area upstream of the bend. Most fish in the 6lb range with a couple of 5lb fish. Had 3 Chub all in the 3lb range. All fish caught on standard ledger tactics using pellet.
Wonderful 2 day fishing trip, well worth the 350 mile round trip. Already looking at booking another 2 day trip.

8 Barbel, 3 Chub