Feedback & Reports

Beautiful surrounding, great weather, falling river, with colour, and 6 fish caught. Early morning Chub, (4lb) on maggot feeder. Moved swim around midday, found deeper water, switched to pellet feeder which gave up 1 Barbel around the 7lb mark, and several Chub between 2 and 5 lb.
Lost another probably bigger Barbel to the net.
All fish caught on first field on entering fishery. Will be back to Middle Ballingham next season.

1 Barbel, 5 Chub

Struggling against conditions - one bite - no fish

River still up - a raging torrent - no fish at all.

A rising, heavily coloured river after heavy overnight rain spoiled sport today. Just one small chub on bread, caught in the grass about 18 inches from the bank. Tried lots of different tactics and baits over a full day but without further success.

1 Chub

Again a lot of water. Fished with a big lead in the weed. Pellets and meat. 6 barbel between 6 and 8lb.

6 Barbel

1st time on this beat, nice easy access and plenty of swims although when the river is this low we could only find a bit of depth in the 1st field. CH had 4 and I 1 all on the usual pellet feeder method. Would certainly return here with a few more feet of water on. Fish were 5 to just under 8lb.

5 Barbel

Rolled meat all at far end of beat swans were a nuisance, good day though .

1 Barbel, 2 Chub

The low clear river conditions along with a couple of otters for company at various parts of the day did little to help the chances of catching a few fish. Despite trying various baits, hook sizes and hook lengths all looked to be heading for a blank (except for a few minnows for a bit of sport) until a 4lb barbel took a liking to the garlic meat put on offer by my companion John towards the end of the day. Its a steep, tricky climb back up through the woods and thats in dry conditions, we have tried it before in wet conditions and with kit is quite dangerous and slippy. A few more rails to hold on to would not go a miss. A lovely beat though as far as getting away from it all goes, hardly a sound to be heard at times and surrounded by lovely countryside and woods.

1 Barbel

Had 3 chub on meat to approx 4lb. First cast lost big fish (probably a big barbel).

3 Chub

Had a great day fishing on the open end feeder. Had bites pretty much all day. Chub were all around the 3lb mark and biggest Barbel was about 6lb. River conditions were fine - no weed or leaves coming downstream.

4 Barbel, 3 Chub