Feedback & Reports

River was high after recent rain 2m at Ross and rising. Even so it fished well, fish caught throughout the day all on pellet.
Its a great venue with fantastic access and plenty of swims to go at. Thanks to Courtfield Estate and WUF.

7 Barbel

1st visit to this fishery, very impressed, unable to drive on field as vey soft ground and didnt have a 4x4.river running very coloured, biggest fish 9.4 lost a couple of fish, mainly due to not knowing what we were fishing over as level was well up, should have caught more really, conditions were good, will be back.

2 Barbel, 2 Chub

2 at 9.5lbs and 1 at 9.0 lbs....rest were 8's, 7's couple 6's.....and 5 big chub, 2 eels. The bank was treacherous with the rain, I had crampons on which were needed. In the very edge the depth was 5ft, be careful in all the swims. Also I tackled down and stripped off 6 foot of line a couple of times due to rock damage....before the line broke on a fish. One of the barbel had a hook in it with 5 inches of line still attached, although that might have occurred in a different swim, better to spend a few minutes and check the line every few casts.

13 Barbel, 5 Chub, 2 Other

Bright day, showers, river dropping.

5 Barbel, 7 Chub

Superb day with the river and the barbel on sparkling form. Biggest fish was 10 lb 12oz. Excellent sport!

14 Barbel, 1 Chub

Attended fishery but decided against fishing. Banks very wet and slippery - Heavy rain - forecast same all day

Managed to find swims for 3 to fish - very wet conditions - river chocolate brown colour
3 x Barbel and 2 eels

3 Barbel, 2 Other

River very coloured and heavy rain in the morning, much drier afternoon. Fish came to ledgered pellet and luncheon meat throughout the day. Kingfishers, egrets an herons on the move, and lovely to see. One eel thankfully released itself before landing.

7 Barbel, 7 Chub

We caught 10 Barbel to 8lb 3oz & 24 Chub to 5lb 9oz.

10 Barbel, 24 Chub

Weather overcast and mild, and surprisingly good flow and colour, with a 14 degree water temp. However with bright skies in the afternoon we needed to do our best work in the morning. Barbel from 3 to 9.06 caught mostly on bomb and pellet, chub to 4.08 on gb feeder meat or pellet. Sounds like a brill day for two anglers? Problem was I had all the chub (and the eel) and he had all the barbel! With this being our first day on the beat we picked two pairs of swims in the second half of the beat and fished one area each so we could move to where the fish were coming from. By the time I'd fished two areas and could only catch snags and moved above Steve, he had stopped catching barbel and had one in the afternoon during which time I had 6 chub (moral victory? He had one more after I left so a great day for him and I took a right barbel gubbin' but a decent day nevertheless.