Feedback & Reports

All fish caught on feeder with meat. Fed pellet and hemp but all day very quiet. Caught one early morning and two later afternoon. Lovely spot and great weather. A lot of canoes with inexperienced people on board. Nearly got wiped out 7 times. I wonder if they are briefed on anglers using the river??
Parking in the wood could be better signed with designated bays as I wasn’t sure where to park without blocking the track. The sign at the top of the track that leads down to river wasn’t on display and laid in the grass. Luckily we spotted it. Lovely section of river.

2 Barbel, 1 Chub

3 fished, 2 sharing a swim. Plenty of canoes that stopped after lunch, all were polite but at least one swim is in a canoe blind spot. River level stable and partly coloured. A local 'expert' reported that the water temperature had recently dropped.

1 Barbel, 2 Chub

Last day here, nothing doing until late afternoon early evening two barbel on the feeder with luncheon meat, that’s 12 for the week so extremely pleased and chuffed.
Thomas Wood has very few accessible swims ..!

2 Barbel, 1 Other

river average level
all on ledgered meat

1 Barbel, 5 Chub

3 Barbel, 6 Chub

Firstly, what a great idea the Fishing Passport is and the directions and accompanying video were extremely helpful.
Started fishing late morning , the river now is dropping back, had a very enjoyable session with 4 barbel all caught on boilies , the best going exactly 7lb with 3 chub all over 3lb.

4 Barbel, 3 Chub

A new beat to ourselves, we drove from Preston and arrived about 9 o clock. After a walk of the beat we decided to fish 2 adjoining pegs as there was only 2 us and my father in law is not 100% on his feet.
We fished the dead tree peg, the river was nicely coloured and dropping off. We had knocks from the off but only caught at about lunchtime. I caught my first barbel on meat and also a chub, then my father in law caught a barbel on krill pellets. There was a large Salmon splashing around in front of us which was good to see. The rest of the fish came later in the day David caught a barbel just as was getting dark and as it was resting my rod went over so we ended with 2 in the net. David's was the biggest barbel of the day and dwarfed my fish in the net. , We didn't take a decent photo as we just wanted to get them back and the banks were a bit dodgy in the darkness.
Thanks for a great day. Hopefully our other fishing mate gets better soon and join us again.

5 Barbel, 5 Chub

River was high with lots of debris coming through. It dropped rapidly throughout the day. Despite the challenging conditions we had a good catch of Barbel up to 7lb.

5 Barbel, 2 Chub

Blank today.

River looked lovely but hard work today ,still enjoyed the day

3 Chub