Feedback & Reports

First visit to this beat, lovely setting. River low and clear. Both fished top end swims in morning with only a few chub to show. 1 small barbel from faster water by island then nothing. Moved again and had 6 big barbel and several chub in a couple of hours. Biggest barbel a nice double at 10lb 3oz, smallest around 7lb. Chub to around 4lb. Fish caught on pellet and boilie.

7 Barbel, 11 Chub

Late afternoon/evening session. We split up and fished different areas. Plenty of swims to try on this beat. Most fish caught on pellet and were fighting fit.
The buzzard and heron had a bit of a do over perching rights and the kingfisher kept brightening up proceedings. The mandarin ducks are so tame, you can have them feeding out of your hands. Great beat and looking forward to coming back in September.

10 Barbel, 20 Chub, 1 Other

Quite a challenging day on a lovely stretch of the river. Despite moving swims a number of time we didn't have a bite until 7pm and then between 7pm & 9pm caught three barbel (biggest 6lb 14oz).

3 Barbel

Arrived at the Creel, parked in the Church Yard and walked the beat, very disappointed that the caravan site has taken over the last field and lots of people fishing the river.
Not like last year and decided to fish elsewhere for the 2 days we were booked on the Creel. I understand the farmer wants to make money of course but being selfish it has put a damper on this beat now.

First time on this beat in the summer, so a bit of a learning curve. Fished a morning session and an evening session. It took a while to locate some feeding fish, several decent looking swims didn't produce a bite before I fished an average looking swim in the second field and was into fish quickly. Probably should have done better, lost a couple of Barbel to inexplicable hook pulls, but never mind. Not as many canoes as I expected!

3 Barbel, 3 Chub

Fishing poor again! Plenty of canoes though and boats with motors on? We don't mind the canoes if there quiet when passing, but when you're paying £22 a ticket to have people jumping in off boats and swimming through your swims its a bit of a joke to be fair!

2 Barbel, 6 Chub

This was our first visit to this beat and it truly is in the middle of nowhere - the caravans at the bottom of the stretch do spoil the view somewhat but there was no real noise or disturbance from them.
We arrived at 4pm and started off rolling some meat in the first field as it looked too good to pass up. The fish were not very obliging however and a solitary eel was all that we could manage. We then moved down to the island to a deep run that looked perfect. We had a chub first cast but after 2 hours we hadn't had any more knocks. We moved back upstream and settled into a swim and managed a few chub in quick succession then I hooked a barbel which threw the hook in on of the many trees littering the nearside bank. Fortunately we managed to get the barbel going and ended the evening with 9 fish up to 8lb. This was a huge framed fish but was completely empty and in the autumn would comfortably be over 9lb.
A lovely beat that I will looked forward to returning to in September and there are a couple of other areas I would like to explore.

9 Barbel, 9 Chub, 1 Other

A good morning spent on a low clear river. All barbel caught first thing.

4 Barbel, 7 Chub

A good evening session with the river lower than previously but still with colour, and the weather calm, cloudy and showery. Fish caught throughout on pellet and meat. Largest barbel about 6.5 lbs. Observed that several swims on the lower, faster water are now inaccessible following winter floods.

6 Barbel, 5 Chub

Another great day on the Creel, the weather was on the warm side, fish not too keen on feeding after around 14:00, all fish caught on pellets and feeder, the caravans do spoil the view of the lower part of the fishery however the people were all friendly, thank you WUF for having this great beat on your books.

4 Barbel, 2 Chub