Feedback & Reports

1st time on this stretch decided to fish the woods and tackle the climb round. Weather was a fair bit cooler than of late and the river painfully low. Started about 2pm and fishing my usual baits & tactics was expecting the ravenous chub to be crawling up the rod! Not to be the 1st fish I had was a barbel about two hrs later on corn bounced through the swim. Had a couple of chub one of which snagged me as I was answering the call of nature and took about 10mins to free after patiently waiting to release itself. Finished off around 7pm with a barbel just shy of 8lb when the bait again was twitched through the swim this also snagged me temporarily in a different area to where I’d been casting on the far side! When fishing here I’d strongly advise using drop off/breakaway leads and suitable tackle as all the stretches I’ve fished this season on the W&U this has been the worst for snags! Enjoyable day and would return here but unlikely to fish the steep wooded area in the wet!

2 Barbel, 2 Chub

Only there a short time caught a barbel very quickly, early morning fishing.

1 Barbel

Only one fished. 28 chub 9 barbel. Had problems with a large pike attacking the fish killing sport for long periods.

9 Barbel, 28 Chub

We were 4 anglers fishing this beautiful venue, 3 off us feeder fished all day resulting in 2 Barbel and 20 chub, the 2 Barbel were in the 8 to 9 pound range and the Chub were generally small.
Our other angler alternated between feeder and float resulting in Chub to 3 pounds.
One caution here, although this is a beautiful section to fish several of the swims are extremely snaggy resulting in lost equipment almost every cast.

2 Barbel, 30 Chub, 4 Other

5 Chub

2 Barbel, 30 Chub

4 Trout

Lost 3 great day 2 Crayfish

3 Trout

All fish caught on traditional wets, with very little surface activity, and quite windy. Best fish around 3/4 lb.
In the morning I missed a very large number of fish that came short, or were lightly hooked.

6 Trout

Lovely beat.

5 Barbel, 4 Chub