Feedback & Reports

Terrible today, hardly a sign of any fish in the river. Not a place to come if you want peace and solitude, all the accessible swims are straight across from the weir gardens on the opposite bank so you’re fishing to an audience. Unfortunately we put on a poor show for them today though

1 Chub

A hard days fishing river very low but that is to be expected with the lack of rain,started by trotting with hemp and sweet corn only two small chub of about a pound changed to ground bait feeder and luncheon meat and had 3 further chub biggest 5lb 2oz I am here for a weeks holiday so it looks as if it will be a long week unless we get rain.The other was an eel of about 2lb.

5 Chub, 1 Other

5 Barbel, 15 Chub

5 Barbel, 14 Chub, 2 Other

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

River very low , caught a few dace trotting a float for a couple of hours and looking for the best swims. Tried rolling meat for the first time and after about 10 mins was into my first barbel, had another on meat then changed to a cage feeder and fished the deeper weir pool. Great day but the canoes are a pain on this stretch.

3 Barbel, 1 Chub, 5 Other

9 Barbel, 30 Chub

11 Barbel, 34 Chub

Another enjoyable day at this scenic venue and apart from the inconvenience of the padlock there is nothing to be critical of here...but the lack of weed issue and strange colour of the river is now a common thread on these posts. On a positive note though it would appear the Coarse fish have not changed their behaviour and the increased Chub catches could be put down to the more coloured water and the possibility that they are homing in on anglers baits due to the lack of more natural food. There is an abundance of fry in the margins so quite clearly the fish have spawned despite the ongoing much publicised problems. I caught a good Perch and a number of small Chub too fishing from 10 until 7 so happy with the return in not particuarly good conditions. Only time will tell in respect the rivers health but this could be the way it will remain and Roach catches might increase too....Dace seem to be in demise and Barbel catching does seem lower but all the fish I caught were in good shape and lets hope this aspect continues.

2 Barbel, 8 Chub, 15 Other

Dace to trotted sweet corn.

5 Barbel, 10 Chub, 20 Other