Feedback & Reports

Fished from 6am-5pm in the swim between meadow crigg and woods crigg. barbel between 1-8.5lb. 1 chub 3lb. all on pellet and feeder fished 2/3 across. snaggy in the main stream. fish at 7am, 12pm and 4pm despite the 1000 canoeists!

4 Barbel, 1 Chub

River was a little higher (few cms) than it's been recently from the heavy rain on Friday, but this quickly ran off through the day. Fishing in the woods on the rock and between us had 2 barbel - best 9-4 and one eel. Was very slow and expected a few more on a overcast day - really enjoyed it nether the less.

2 Barbel, 1 Other

11 Barbel

Fished roving all around the meadow swims. Tactics included float, feeder and float paternoster. We fished the morning and early afternoon but heavy rain meant we took a break until the evening. Fish caught were lots of dace and chub and minnows, and one lost pike of around 10lb. The evening session after the rain included 3 barbel of 6lb,and 7.5lb to T Everitt and a cracking 10lb barbel to A Davis. All fish were in superb condition. We enjoyed this session very much.

3 Barbel, 4 Chub, 10 Other

Late afternoon all 3 averaging 7lb.
Been raining all day since 6a.m. but only fed when weather brightened.

3 Barbel

Fished from mid afternoon in the last swim in the meadow. We heavily baited the area before fishing. A warm afternoon then became a slightly chilly evening with clear skies so bites were few and far between. Feeder tactics provided one small barbel and then chub of 3lb and 5lb to T Everitt and chub of 4lb to A. Davis
This swim did not live up to expectation but enjoyed the day.

1 Barbel, 3 Chub

3 Other

3 Barbel, 1 Chub

Two Barbel caught late in the day from the upper open area, nice part of the wye valley with some nice swims.

2 Barbel

I arrived at Courtfield at approximately 6.ooam after a short 35 minute drive, the parking areas were easy to find after a bit of research on google maps the previous night.
After walking the length of the fishery checking out all the swims i decided to drop in on Legg meadow crib from here i took three barbel up to 6.8lb from a spot towards the far bank , three casts and three fish, at around 9.30 the first of the dreaded canoes started floating by which killed the action, so with this i decided to take a good look around, after a visit to the pub for lunch and a further walk round in which i decided to drop in to wood crib,at around 4.30 the canoes had now dispersed.
At first i fished half way out to where i was receiving indications of fish being present but found that the area was immensely snaggy and proceeded to lose a few feeders, i decided to fish another mark on the far bank under some overhanging tree in about three feet of water within two minutes of the feeder hitting the water i received a snatchy bite which produced a chubb of around 5lb, two furthers casts to same area then produced a 6.9lb and an 9.4lb barbel.
Stunning stretch to get you really thinking Drove home with a massive smile on my face.

Regards
Jonathan Dunn

5 Barbel, 1 Chub