Feedback & Reports

Started on the concrete path by the generator but the river had come up overnight and the weed coming down at all levels was horrendous. I was wiped out within two minutes on every cast. So I walked upstream half a mile and found a decent looking swim. Still some weed but not nearly as bad. Had to wait three hours but patience was ultimately rewarded with 7 barbel in the afternoon and evening. No chub fortunately!

7 Barbel

After reading some reports about how slippery conditions were underfoot, nothing could prepare us for this. It’s extremely slippery, studs and staff are a must, the water is very refreshing at the bottom of your waders..
This beat is simply stunning and you could be anywhere in the world.
Fishing was tough with only 1 fish to show for are efforts.
Will return but this time with a change of clothes.

1 Trout

Brown trout 1lbs. Returned. Blue flash damsel fly

1 Trout

7 Barbel, 12 Chub

Pleasant weather conditions, caught fish on meat from woods and first field.

3 Barbel, 3 Chub

6 Trout

Fished hair rigged halibut pellets and feeder, hard going due to lots of weed, most fish caught from the boat pool in the late afternoon up until dusk.

7 Barbel, 2 Chub

First time fishing this beat. Only 3 real pegs with the current low water conditions. Caught throughout the day on feeder and pellet. Ended up with 24 barbel between us but mostly small, in fact i’ve never caught barbel this small before!

24 Barbel, 6 Chub

First visit to this beat. Parking is easy and the walk down to the river is steep but short, and the advice to travel light is sensible. There are lots of shallows with streamer weed but only one safe place to enter the river with waders that I could find which was in the upper field. This stretch has a fast run on the far side that produced most of the chub to around 4lb on trotted corn and meat in the morning. After lunch I moved around trying to find the barbel with ledger and feeder. The first few pegs in the lowest field are accessible but the flow is very slow when the water level is low. I eventually netted a lovely conditioned barbel of around 5lb from the croy peg at the top of the beat as the sun was setting. A quiet and picturesque beat with lots of kingfishers. Saw one cormorant fly over.

1 Barbel, 9 Chub

River was in better condition, however challenging with a fair bit of weed flowing through. 1 barbel around the 7 mark fell to meat, with a few chub on trotting tactics. Going was tough but enjoyable day.

Lovely stretch with well maintained swims and good access.

1 Barbel