Feedback & Reports

With the limited rods booked on, Terry kindly offered the pick of any of the beats between us all. I fished parts of beats 4, 5 & 6 during the day from around 1pm. The water was low, blanket weed on the stones, no observed activity or bites. Still great to be on the water.
Moved to beat 2 for the last couple of hours. Lovely water. Trying boilies for only the second time.
a half pound chub and as the light began to fade a perfect 7lb hard-fighting barbel. Well worth the wait.

1 Barbel, 1 Chub

River quite low, caught on edges of deeper faster water. Cheese & garlic paste. 1 caught trotting, 4 ledgering . All good size to 5lb,

5 Chub

4 Barbel, 3 Chub

No fish caught.
Ledgered for barbel during a six hour session. Weather extremely hot and river very slow, to the point of almost static.
Rain badly needed.
Accommodation at Montgomery House was excellent, as was the breakfasts supplied.

few small chub on a long trot....not a tap on the feeder. Plenty of big fish moving around in the shallows...nothing interested in feeding.

4 Chub

Beat 6

3 Chub

early start and all fish came between 5am and 8.30 - lost a couple of decent fish in the rocks and snags on beat 2
-should have packed up when it got hot and sunny - but sat it out and cooked without a bite for 6hrs - with about 200 swans and canada geese my swim looked more like Slimbridge at feeding time, made it really hard work at times - not sure id fish this beat again til the younger birds have moved on.

2 Barbel, 2 Chub

Lovely spot but no joy just a few missed bites. That’s fishing!.

Very changeable weather. Downstream wind very blustery. Decent amount of water. Missed takes to small klinkhamner above the bridge on beat 1. Beat 4, several pulls, one hooked and lost (barbless fly and very acrobat brownie), two to the next circa 3/4lb. All to small black gold head hares ear.

2 Trout