Feedback & Reports

It’s been 4 years since my last visit to this beat , it should’ve been sooner , I forgot how great this place is ! With great parking and a stunning backdrop! Luckily we had the entire beat to ourselves so we tried to fish as much as possible, an early chub and barbel got us excited , and a cracking perch took our pellet , that’s a first for me !
Feeder fishing proved quite slow throughout the day , so switched to trotting which brought us a flurry of specimen chub , fantastic!
2 late barbel put the icing on the cake for what was a brilliant days fishing .

3 Barbel, 7 Chub, 1 Other

5 Chub

This venue is beautiful made more so by the National Trust property opposite.
We arrived at the Weir Garden swim and it looked great, very ‘fishy’. However if turned out to be a really tough day. Very few bites on a variety of methods, perhaps water and / or air temperature to blame (or dodgy angling!!?).
The barbel was a perfect specimen of just under 6lb, all chub were less than 2lb.
There are more productive beats on WUF, and the creation of more swims would be of huge benefit on this beat.

Nonetheless a lovely day.

1 Barbel, 4 Chub

Directions worked fine, and with a 4x4 the access was very easy all along the river bank to the whole stretch, and access to what I assume are the main spots was easy. There is what I assume is meant to be a stile further up-river but this is treacherous and one day is going to fall over and send someone down the bank with it; could really do with fixing. Apart from that, well maintained. Thanks for the access.

Water levels very low (0.16m at Ross). Bright and sunny and hot in the morning, rain from 1700 onwards. Fished from 0700 to 2000. Float fished on the gravel beach opposite the wall, and also tried spots above and below that in the faster and slower water respectively.

Steady bites throughout the day on a range of baits, but nothing extraordinary and no spot ever really took off.
Chub were not huge (biggest 3lb) and "others" were dace and a few perch, with some a decent size which were entertaining to catch.

20 Chub, 20 Other

River low and clear - sky ranged from overcast to bright sunshine. All fish caught on feeder fished pellet.

1 Barbel, 3 Chub

A hard day - hot and sunny. Just fished the afternoon and evening. Two small chub for BT but HT’s chub was a PB 5lb 7oz. All on pellets; one small one trotting the pool on the bend and the others legering opposite the boat house.

3 Chub

Others were perch and dace

7 Chub, 5 Other

3 Chub

Hard days fishing conditions looked spot on cloudy and not as hot as previous days fished the beach spent an afternoon trotting meat,pellets and corn but just a solitary chub of around 2lb.

1 Chub

Fished from 11- 3-30 on the float 1 small barbel around 3lb and 3 decent sized perch all on meat ,went back for last hour until dark 3 chub up to 4lb 6oz again on meat.

1 Barbel, 4 Chub, 3 Other