Feedback & Reports

Weather very hot and river running clear. 2 chub one on float one on feeder. Very hard going.

2 Chub

Nice day out, with the brilliant scenery. Good meal at The Moon afterwards. Nice healthy, good sized Chub!

5 Chub

We actually fished two days. The 8th. July we fished a stretch just below the Fairview Guest House, where we stayed in great comfort, with the very knowledgeable and great river angler Dave Harrell, who was our guide for the day. On this day it started off very well then we had a tremendous thunderstorm and torrential rain which definitely affected the fishing quite badly. despite this we caught two barbel and 16 chub.
The next day we fished the Lower Carrots and Luggs Mouth stretch,on our own but with a lot of advice and accumulated knowledge from Dave Harrell. We had 6 barbel up to about 8/9 lbs. and 15 chub up to 5lbs. plus, all good fish. All fish were taken trotting down using Dave's special floats and rig suggestions. It was lovely having this whole stretch entirely to ourselves. A most enjoyable trip!

6 Trout, 8 Barbel, 31 Chub

Had some nice chub form the middle part of the beat then moved down to the Luggsmouth section and found the barbel.Saw a few salmon jumping in the pools downstream. Lovely days fishing cheer's WUF.

5 Barbel, 10 Chub

Fished the middle of the beat - most fish taken on feeder fished robin red pellet with a couple on sweetcorn. Great pegs with easy access. Map was easy to read and we found the stretch easily. Great day.

1 Barbel, 13 Chub

Cracking day on a lovely beat.
A little surprised to be confronted on our arrival by a salmon angler working his way down the beat. This is advertised as a 2 rod beat at a price of £22.50 per today. We had booked both available rods and thought the salmon anglers presence was a tad out of order.
Anyway, we finally found the fish which resulted in 11 barbel and 12 chub. Biggest barbel bang on 10lb.
All fish on ground bait feeder with ellipse pellets on the hair.

WUF note - Please contact the Foundation immediately if any other anglers are fishing a beat who shouldn't be there. This beat has a full time Ghillie and we can contact him immediately to address the situation at short notice.

11 Barbel, 12 Chub

Started at 6.30am Barbel. Form the first cast sport slowed as the sun got higher around 10.30am so trotted a stick float in some fast water and had 8 chub to 4lb on sweet corn. Returned to original spot after cloud cover arrived and had 3 more barbel, the best was the last fish that was 9lb 3oz. Another good day.

8 Barbel, 12 Chub

Nice day. River low but with some colour. Never really found big shoals of fish but caught steadily near to Luggsmouth itself.

12 Barbel, 11 Chub

Just to confirm reports of other anglers on the beat (see 3 July feedback). We fished on 30th June and had the same experience - 2 salmon anglers turned up to fish. Nice guys and had a good chat etc. One said he would try for some barbel as the salmon prospects were no good - he didn't and they both subsequently left. It wasn't a big deal but it could have been if they had fished where we wanted to. If the owner wants to let others fish, then that's his right but it should be clearly stated and the price amended accordingly.

River appeared low and clear. Very bright conditions. Only fished for 2 hours. I suspect evening up to dusk would have proved more interesting. This was more of a fact finding mission with my wife and threat of thunderstorm together with the access around the field caused me to abandon fishing.

1 Chub