Feedback & Reports

Conditions good, fished from 8:00am to 18:30pm. Four of us on this stretch ,we mainly fished two swims on the meadow and the other two anglers moved around more from the woods to the meadow. Unfortunately no fish. As always a beautiful place to fish but not so lucky this time. All were using feeder tactics with various hook bait, maybe a change in method needed for next visit.

River had good flow and colour. Rain with light wind. Had 1 bite, 1 Barbel 6lb 12oz.on pellet.

1 Barbel

River conditions not too bad although quite coloured and rising it was fishable. After 7 hours without a bite very glad to pack up and go home, it had rained all day the banks were very slippery and muddy making some of the swims quite dangerous to fish. Also lost quite a lot of tackle as every swim l fished appeared to contain a lot of snags.

Arrived to find falling river after overnight rise. It was showing more colour than I have seen for a while so prospects looked good. Unfortunately, 7 hrs fishing resulted in 1 eel & little else. Love this stretch & will return soon.

1 Other

Very difficult day due to weed and debris brought down by the rising river. Just one chub to show for our efforts.

1 Chub

3 Barbel

A very windy and rainy day. The river was still relatively clear but obviously had a fair bit of extra water but still low for the time of year. In addition the new water had definitely chilled the overall temperature. Arriving just as it got light I fished in the wood, I decided that I would stay put in one location pretty much all day, mainly under the brolly! Simple feeder method with pellets and homemade boilies for bait. Had a nice barbel 9ib 6oz at about 1 o'clock and further two about 5 o'clock and half six. Fished until dark and lost another just before packing up which would have finished the day really well, in the end a good day. Had a nice chat with Rudi and he offered plenty of useful advice, he told me a would have a hard day but I've definetely had far worse! Many thanks. Hopefully be back again soon.

3 Barbel

2 chub between 4 and 5lb on halibut pellet lost 1 barbel on first peg in meadow!

2 Chub

After 2 bad days we hoped things would get better, how wrong we were, 3 anglers fished all day and we worked hard at it but not a single touch. All very disappointed. River low. It was an overcast morning but sunny afternoon. Used all the normal baits and tricks. See Thomas Wood and How Caple Court for previous two days. As stated before, investment into accessing swims would help.

8 barbel caught, largest 10.11. Feeder + pellets/boilies as hook bait.

8 Barbel