Feedback & Reports

After facing the hill and the 'forest goat' trail a swim was selected and a really enjoyable day, alas devoid of Barbel, was enjoyed.
Circa 30/40 chub caught, we lost count really, all falling to Krill pellet, corn or meat presented exclusively on method feeders that performed brilliantly on a 4" hook link. This might have cost us a few barbel but hey ho, it was thoroughly memorable. All fish were in the 3lb-5lb range.

36 Chub

Lovely days fishing. The barbel came in the morning before 8am and two after 5pm. Lost count of the exact amount of chub I caught to be honest. Plenty of them were a good size between 3 and 5 lbs at a guess, didn’t weigh anything. All fish caught on swim feeder tactics, ellipse pellets, barbel bomb and halibut pellets.

River was low but rising, fished the peg in the woods after the rapids.

5 Barbel, 30 Chub

Didn’t fish walk up and down hill to wooded area to much for 58 k 60 year old men

Lovely fishery, lots of chub around 3-6lbs, no barbel unfortunately, other was an eel

18 Chub, 1 Other

15 Chub

River very low and clear. Fished 6am till midday. 6am to 9am 1 x barbel on 14mm crab pellet. 9am till midday 12 x chub 3-5lb on bread flake, great fun. Could have continued to catch but it got too hot so legged it for a pint.

1 Barbel, 12 Chub

A bit of a slow day - late arrival and bright sun probably didn’t help. Fish most active at dusk. Lost a second barbel when the line parted around a rock. All caught on the feeder.

1 Barbel, 7 Chub

A low and clear river and a day of bright sunshine is not normally conducive to a bumper catch. Sure enough Barbel were largely absent. There are a lot of Chub throughout this section though. Standing high on the bank it was possible to see very many fish cruising around. One angler fished the Lucky Stone whilst the other initially fished a little downstream of this initially before moving on to the lower field.

Tried a range of baits and tactics all resulting in Chub with many of these being between 4lb and 5lb. Only one Barbel was hooked but unfortunately not landed. The ‘others’ were three Roach which managed to take a 10mm pellet.

61 Chub, 3 Other

Fished the wooded section. Lots of chub to be had but barbel were elusive. Only two rods fished for most of the day and the return seemed fair in light of the hot and sunny weather.

3 Barbel, 26 Chub

Chub to 5 lbs. plus to meat and bread, majority on float, couldn't get the Barbel interested. Only a couple of swims fishable in the field below the woods and they are full of cow pats, very unpleasant, did'nt stay long, fished most of the day in the woods.

57 Chub