Feedback & Reports

An afternoon/early evening session. The river looked good with decent summer height, good flow and a bit of colour. Weather rather bright but OK. Numerous snatchy chub bites from the off. Eventually hooked two on meat, but both snagged me and escaped. No activity after about 6.30 and no sign of barbel.

River coloured and running with a bit of height. Slow going only 2 barbel but lots of chub. I always see reports about people catching an eel. Thought it was a myth until now.

2 Barbel, 8 Chub, 1 Other

Fished last peg on the beat from the croy. The other fish was an Eel.

1 Barbel, 8 Chub, 1 Other

The river rose all morning and by early afternoon was 1/2m up from when we arrived. The fresh water had the fish on the munch though and we caught plenty of chub and 5 barbel by mid afternoon. However the bites dried up as the river peaked and started to fall. No coincidence I'm sure.

5 Barbel, 30 Chub

This is clearly a well looked after section. There's a wide variety of swims and access to them is generally good.
There's a short but steep climb up a footpath to get back to your car which gets the blood pumping a bit.
The lower end of the beat seems to be slightly deeper and slower whilst the upstream end is shallower and carries more pace. We opted for a couple of swims towards the upstream end.
The river held more colour than it had done in the previous few days and had also come up a bit. The fishing was steady rather than spectacular with Chub caught regularly on both straight lead and on the float. An early Barbel hinted that we might be in for a really good day but alas that was the only one.

1 Barbel, 22 Chub, 1 Other

I don’t consider myself a fine weather angler but only managed 4 hours fishing in torrential rain. Lovely stretch of river, four Chub trotting two over 4lb

4 Chub

First time on this beat. A long walk to the top end, a lack of suitable water for two anglers. Fished for two hours packed up and went elsewhere.
We wont be booking this beat again in low water conditions.

10 Chub

Really challenging day. Great beat with several swims available but it is difficult in low water. Had to move to find the fish and both anglers caught in each of the 3 swims that we tried. No barbel this time.

10 Chub

A good day, lots of fish jumping too.
Persistence required today, with the feeder having laid plenty of bait through the day bringing the fish on later in the afternoon.

7 Chub

Great day. Found a feeding shoal of Barbel and spent the day trying to get them to take my bait..! They were quite weary of everything with a hook in it, but I managed to fool a few lovely fish. The others were all eels which seemed to be hanging out with the Barbel.

5 Barbel, 12 Chub, 3 Other