Feedback & Reports

Lovely days fishing. Targeted the faster runs on beats 4 and 5. Most fish fell to float fished meat.

2 Barbel, 19 Chub

1 Barbel, 30 Chub

Rising river but my friend managed to catch his first ever barbel at 6lb and a 4lb chub. I lost a good barbel caught 2 chub and a barbel around the 4lb mark. Great venue.

2 Barbel, 3 Chub

River very full very overgrown meaning unable to reach swims. Chub were good size and very full bodied and ranged from 3.5lb to 5lb meat and krill boilies pity no barbel beat 1 2 and 4 lots of roving tough day but lovely condition fish

4 Chub

Hard days fishing with the river coming down from a flood, managed to find a few bits of quieter water where the chub were biting but only managed to connect with one.

1 Chub

Too hot! No fish. Plenty of activity the day before though, classic.

10 -11 lb fresh hen fish with net/seal marks on right flank, caught 1715 on top of no 4 , just below steps on small irish shrimp fly and 11ft 6" switch rod

1 Salmon

Different day, weather wise from Saturday but the river obviously still low. There were a couple of fish showing iat the bottom of beat 3 probably residents, certainly not takers. Lots of surface activity with the trout and a few Mayfly coming off.
A bit of a gripe. I started fishing the bottom of beat 6, fishing the run behind the bottom crib when a dark coloured Fourtrack appeared on my bank, parked up below me at the top of the run unloaded four kids and the driver, They all got out and had a merry old time skimming and throwing stones in. They stayed for about 15 minutes until it started raining, Why there? They had the whole river to choose from. They could obviously see me fishing and I was working my way down to that run. I take it ,it must have been one of the farmers but its not a good advert for the water and not the kind of thing I would expect as a paying guest. The canoes, well, that's another story.....

I think I expected it to be a tough day today and I wasn't disappointed. Fishing on a Saturday and a holiday weekend meant one thing canoes, lots of canoes.. Luckily I got there early so had all morning canoe free but we had a large hatch between 1.30 and 3 making fishing pretty useless, mind you a needed a rest by then anyway. As for the fishing, water is low now, need a good flush through. I had a good tug and a swirl at the bottom of beat 3 first thing. There was a fish showing on beat 6, possibly a resident. I threw everything at to no avail. There are fish there, not many but they are there., catching them is another thing.... Ah well, I'm there again next week.... so even less water and more canoes no doubt….

Fished and walked full beat and honestly say, we felt it was devoid of fish, weather & air temperature were perfect, the water slightly on the low side . Overriding feeling was no fish present. Not value for money!