Feedback & Reports

A tough day at Lower Canon Bridge with low water and rain throughout the day. That said we managed to pick up a number of barbel to 6.11. This is a beat that has left us wanting another crack at it in better conditions. The assistance of the farmer in taking us to the beat was very useful as it is a reasonable distance with all of your gear, especially in the rain. A big thank you to him. We will be back.

6 Barbel, 5 Chub

Tough day, river low and clear as expected. Two good chub approx 3 to 4lb early in the day. Lots of small chub and silver fish on the Wagler. Busy on the top peg with canoes visiting the Weir garden.

I fished this beat weeks ago and had a great day, full of action. Another great day but only one fish. Maybe because of the otter sitting near the weir wall, or perhaps a victim of its own success and has been overfished?

1 Barbel

A long walk to a very nice beat. Water level low and clear. All fish taken towards the evening in the faster water on meat. Many thanks.

2 Barbel, 4 Chub

Fished 9 am - 3.00 pm. Not ideal time of day but fairly productive, steady bites for most of morning then tailed off later in day. Canoes dislodged a lot of weed which was a nuisance at times. Barbel 4lb - 7.5lb's, most chub 2 -3lb size bracket.
Discarded tackle found in some swims. To whoever: I understand your baiting needle had broken, but why fling it on the floor!? Some comments have said this stretch is a ''tackle grave yard''. To be honest I have never lost a rig on here.... On this occasion I hooked up several times with other anglers tackle through vast lengths of trailing mono in the water. I retrieved multiple feeders and rigs, some with with barbed hooks. Some of these rigs were very crude, with bulky swivels guaranteed to find a snag, and with hooklinks clearly much stronger than the mainline. On one tangled mess there was a decomposed chub attached. My first barbel had a length of mono and a swivel trailing from it's mouth.. There really is no need to use ridiculously heavy weights and huge 80 gram feeders in summer flows, no wonder you keep snagging the bottom. Use common sense and don't blast your feeder into thick weed on the far side! You can catch fish by dropping your bait into the near side, into a clear slot just yards out... try that first. I would urge anyone targeting barbel to do some research into how you make your rigs, so they don't become death traps for the fish. Plenty of information online.

7 Barbel, 5 Chub

This was our first time on LCB and it really is a stunning (and peaceful) beat. The fishing wasn't so much about how many we caught though but about how many we lost unfortunately! The fish here are very wise and constantly managed to offload the hook into the streamer weed... we must have lost well over 10 fish (mostly barbel) during the course of the day. Even wading out and trying to lessen the angle to the fish didn't even help. It was nice to catch a couple of fish on the float though even if I lost way more than I caught!
However, as with the previous day, this was more of a social trip so the amount being caught wasn't really an issue, it was just glorious to be in such wonderful surroundings catching the odd fish here and there.
Will definitely be back again.
Note to WUF - the swims on the top half of the beat could really do with some clearing.

2 Barbel, 2 Chub

2 Barbel

River colouring up after rain. Lots of weed coming down making fishing difficult at times. Chub to 4.5lbs and barbel mainly between 6 and 8 lbs. 2 largest 8lb 12 oz and 9lb 2oz.

9 Barbel, 8 Chub

2 Barbel

A beautiful beat with good access. Top of the beat chocked with weed. We caught steadily over the day on pellet/feeder and meat tactics. A total of 13 barbel to 7 1/2 lb and chub to 3 1/2 lb. We will be back to explore this stretch further. Thanks W&U.

13 Barbel, 9 Chub