Feedback & Reports

First time on this beat but with bright sunshine and temps. hitting 27 degrees not the best of conditions we managed to winkle out a few Chub and an Eel on meat. Directions, both written and via the video, are excellent but "Pashley's Crib" ? not strimmed ? doesn't exsist as far as I can see, don't know how old the video is.

14 Chub, 1 Other

Nice evening on upper hill court 2 nice barbel in 30 mins - couldnt keep it going though but feeder accuracy improves every time. Both caught on krill pellet .

2 Barbel, 2 Chub

Beautiful day. Most swims hard to access but got into the first two on the upper beat relatively comfortably. Used 3oz feeders with hair rigged meat for the chub and the barbel took a halibut pellet. Fished to the nearside crease for the chub and found the barbel a bit further out into the main flow.

1 Barbel, 11 Chub

River pretty low and clear. Sunny and hot for most of the day so I expected it may be tough. Fished three swims in upper field and caught chub slowly but surely all day. Biggest was 5lb 4oz. Very long fish that would go over 6lb in the winter no doubt. I fished groundbait feeder with 8mm pellets, 12mm bookie and meat. All hookbaits caught. Ran out of steam (and water) and packed up around 1900. Suspect the barbel would have come out to play close to dark. Slightly disappointed driving home with no barbel but alas, first session of the season, beautiful weather and the usual kingfishers and big splashes to keep me amused. Salmon?

7 Chub

Had around 20 chub between the 2 of us. Biggest around the 3-4lb mark.

20 Chub

Only two of us fished today, but we had an excellent day on a falling river as we caught 12 Barbel and 6 Chub. 3 Barbel were over 9lb and 1 was over 10lb. Happy Dayz!

12 Barbel, 6 Chub

First visit to this beat and it's a cracker. Fished the upper section and there were about 5 very decent swims that had been well strimmed (thank you to the owner). Had 5 barbel - a 5, a 6, a 7, an 8 and a 9.5 (new PB). Plus a 4lb chub. All on either meat or pellet behind the feeder. Superb.

5 Barbel, 1 Chub

2 Barbel, 2 Chub

Really hard going lots of foam coming down the river which seemed to switch the bites off ,still not many swims available for this time of year
There was 3 angler’s on and it was near impossible to find a swim each

3 Chub

Fished 1230-1730. River was 1.7m up but slowly dropping and a lovely milk chocolate colour. Only one fishable swim in upper field. Two fishable swims in lower field and I opted for the first swim right by the car parking area. There was a nice slack a couple of rod lengths out that looked ideal and was snag free. I actually started and ended the session with the same feeder and hooklength which can't happen often! Fished groundbait feeder with hemp and a few small pellets mixed in, with 14mm paste wrapped pellet on hair. Had a 3lb chub first cast that slipped off at the net. Another similar chub came shortly after. It then went a bit quiet so I put a few balls of groundbait in and had a sarnie. Switched to spicy meat on the hair after lunch and had a decent chub (4lb ish). Next cast the tip absolutely slammed around and I was into a fesity little barbel of around 4lb. The second barbel came at around 4pm to paste wrapped pellet. An absolutely fin perfect 7lb-er that fought like a lion in the flow. It was a stunning day with buzzards wheeling overhead, a kingfisher buzzing around, and a huge v shaped formation of geese. Thanks WUF.

2 Barbel, 3 Chub