Feedback & Reports

A very hot and gruelling day. Floating weed not quite so bad as previous few days. River was low, brown coloured and looked lifeless. We tried hard with very little to report. My mate had a barbel about 3pm in the heat of the day ( 31c ) whereas I had to wait till the last hour for one chub and one barbel. A tough day.

2 Barbel, 1 Chub

Disappointing lack of available pegs, I counted 4 , 3 near the top of the length and 1 at the rope pool. Not much choice when 3 of us were fishing. 1 rod caught 4 barbel near the top including 3 in successive casts and another barbel came from the rope pool. The river had an algal bloom and was a dirty brown colour.

5 Barbel, 15 Chub

A very difficult venue. Needed to find the faster flowing water. Very few pegs accessible. Walked all the way to the bottom of the beat, nettles up to your arm pits. Had to make my own peg in the woods. The barbel we're in the middle in the main flow caught 2 lost 1.Then the boat traffic turned up they also went down the middle
This stretch needs some TLC. It could be good

2 Barbel

4 Barbel

2 Chub

A hard day not helped by there being only 2 fishable swims.

4 Chub

3 Barbel, 6 Chub

A difficult day and as a previous poster complained very few swims available, needs parking/access at bottom of beat as very few coarse anglers are going to walk a mile carrying their tackle.

2 Barbel, 1 Chub, 1 Other

1 Barbel

A mix of sun and cloud in the morning and full sun for most of the afternoon. Given the results of the previous day we had expectations of something similar on the barbel front but this didn't materialise with no barbel from the swim that had produced on the previous day. The 'other' was an eel.

3 Barbel, 13 Chub, 1 Other