Feedback & Reports

5am to 9:30.
Managed 2 good chub both getting on for 5lb on trotted meat. Briefly connected to two other good fish. Otherwise struggled on a usually productive beat, but that’s fishing!
River painfully low but a little cooler than of late.

2 Chub

Only fished a few hours… arrived later than planned, first hour was really good lots of fish activity, then as swarms of swimmers and conoers and party’s turned up I couldn’t bare stand all the noise and disruption.

The river looked beautiful, only 2 feet deep! But could see plenty of trout in there and smaller chub. Plenty of oxygen in this turbulent water.

There is no access to most the beat without wading, I wasn’t expecting this. I don’t know how you could access it when the water is higher.

The best boundaries were not clear, I just kept moving further away from the noise of party’s / summer holidays.

Loads of blanket weed!!!! Swamping everything, every cast, made it quite an unpleasant experience.

1 Barbel, 1 Chub

Couple of hours float fishing. Caught 4 barbel, 2 chub, lost 2.
All caught on sweetcorn

4 Barbel, 2 Chub

Had lots of bites in a couple of hours fishing.
Caught 3 fish and lost 3.
Lots of fish jumping later in the evening.

1 Barbel, 1 Chub, 1 Other

Fished a few hours in the evening. Caught 2 barbel, 1 chub. All caught on 10mm pellets.

2 Barbel, 1 Chub

water temp 22.8
Sadly a freshly dead Salmon around 10lbs in the slack water at down stream end.

14 Barbel, 22 Chub

WOW! An incredible day, caught all day by travelling light and rotating swims.

51 Barbel, 38 Chub, 1 Other

a disappointing day for Tim after the report of a good catch earlier in the week

2 Barbel, 10 Chub

A wonderful day’s fishing. Not the biggest fish but great fun. The pathway along the fishery is very over grown and is in need of a cut. I’ve never seen so much rubbish along the river
2 x 6lbs
3 x 5 lbs
3 x 4 lbs
3 x 3 lbs
9 x 2 lbs
5 x 1 lb
I fished in the water so apart from the odd fish they were all kept and unhooked in the water

25 Barbel, 53 Chub

Access down to the river was terrible, the pathway was totally overgrown and, had I not fished this beat many times before, I would not have even known that the pathway continued. I love wild fishing and far prefer the natural arena of a river, but, having paid £60+ for our tickets I do feel some maintenance should take place. The pathway near the river is very rocky and we couldn't see where we were putting our feet, it would have been very easy to have slipped and fallen. I'm not asking for anything that detracts from the natural feel of the place, but a bit of strimmer work to allow a clear path to the river to be seen seems a fair thing to ask for the cost of the ticket.

My son and I managed to get down into the river to wade to the best looking spot. The river was clear and very shallow, the sky was clear and sunny all day. We started on feeder and had a few knocks but nothing positive. After multiple casts resulted in snags and lost tackle we decided to change tactics and fished float instead.

This resulted in 6 chub to around 3lb on pellet, meat and bread, with a few lost fish too.

We really enjoyed the day, my son fished with great focus and determination and I'm glad a change of tactics resulted in some good fish. I'd love him to catch his first barbel though so we will return as I've done so well here in the past.

River level according to Gov.uk at Lydbrook was dropping from 1.01m to 1.00m through the day.

6 Chub