Feedback & Reports

Great days fishing at middle hill court. First of all I’d like to thank Stefan the bailiff for lots of great advice with swim choice. We managed 5 barbel to 7lb and 10 chub to 5lb 5oz all fish court on feeder & pellet fishing close in in a deep gulley. Swims were nice and easy to get down to. Stefan as done a amazing job with the swims. Will be back soon for sure

5 Barbel, 10 Chub

A tough day for me today with only 1 Barbel and 10 chub.
DH from Taunton did much better with 4 Barbel and 6 chub, all fish caught with luncheon meat.

16 Chub, 5 Barbel

Other demands on my time meant this became a very short session of less than three hours. River still high and pushing through needing a 4oz weight; pleasantly mild. I had a chub literally within seconds of my first cast out, but overall it was a quiet afternoon with all three fish of below average size. All on feeder tactics and meat .

1 Barbel, 2 Chub

Good day for the chub. All between 4Ib 6oz and 5Ib 2oz. Sadly no barbel despite moving swims a lot. River looked ace with some water on. Stefan keeping the swims safe with ropes and steps to most swims.

11 Chub

River still well up, lovely beat

1 Barbel, 2 Chub

2 barbel and 1 chub, river up and coloured

2 Barbel, 1 Chub

Just one small chub

1 Chub

I turned into a weather man on Sunday and watching the river drop to 2.17m by bedtime I had some hope. I got up to 2.4m (peaked at 2.62 during Monday) but we’d already decided to travel so off I went. 3 of us fished and we found 3 swims with reasonably smooth water. Visibility was 6 inches max but the weather was perfect and we hoped the journey would be worth while. In the end we were chuffed to all catch in the flood conditions with the five fish (estimated at 4, 5, 5, 5 & 7) split between us. 4 to spicy sausage pellets and one to meat. A great feeling in very difficult conditions

5 Barbel

Love this stretch always a pleasure to fish here. We fished in unfamilar pegs today due to river levels but still caught. Spread out the full length of the beat, usual groundbit feeder tactics

11 Barbel, 1 Chub

River up about 12 ft and only just within its banks,managed to find a couple of areas of slack water and caught a nice Barbel of 7-8 lbs,also lost a couple to hook pulls.All in all a decent day considering the conditions and happy to avoid the dreaded blank

1 Barbel