Feedback & Reports

Fished from 2pm until 7pm in very bright sunshine and gin clear summer level water. So not ideal barbel catching conditions. As the light faded, managed to winkle out two decent barbel circa 7lbs and my son lost a decent fish.
Nice looking stretch with lots of potential in perhaps more favourable conditions.

Fished top pool, 6 barbel to 8lbs. Great day, be back next year.

Three of us fishing for two days with one rod each managed 15 barbel between 5lb and 7lb 12oz and three bonus chub to 5lb. We fished the first three swims which were all good fishing. The bottom has alot of snaggy rocks close in but further out in the middle seems nice and flat and can be fished easily. The banks are high and quite steep and could be slippery if it rained but it didn't so we were ok. The first day was mostly cloudy and produced fish at various times. The second day was sunny and produced fish early in the morning and in the evening. All in all great fishing.

Slow start apart from nice 5lb 6oz chub mid afternoon but at 5pm barbel came on the feed to pellet. 10 barbel between 5lbs and 7lbs 12oz made the afternoon a very enjoyable session. Well worth the visit despite only a few swims being accessible.

Once again river still very low and clear, another hot, bright day, again making fishing difficult. We fished the upper swims, eventually finding some fish in the 'tree' swim. We lost a couple and landed 1 barbel, about 6lbs and 1 chubb, lots of streamer weed making it very snaggy.

Access was fine, directions easy to follow. Very short walk to first swim by the power lines. Having read the reports here, I was very pleased to find it free, then again I was the only rod booked on! Again, based on reports here I started by fishing the middle of the river to avoid the nearbank tackle graveyard. One hour in, no bites (started at 1pm btw). After an hour, I messed up a cast and it only went about a third of the way out. Best mistake I've ever made, as my hair-rigged sweetcorn fished beneath a feeder full of pellets and ground bait was snaffled, a barbel of 6.12 turned out to be the culprit. Nine of his mates followed at regular intervals throughout the afternoon. I didn't lose any tackle to snags, though a couple of fish got away by snapping my 10lb mono hook length. All in all, the best days fishing I've ever had. Thanks v. much WUF, superb fishing in superb surroundings with superb service. Fish took sweetcorn, Sonu s-pellets - never tried meat, didn't feel the need. So ten barbel between 5 pounds and 8 pounds. Wonderful.

My first visit to any WUF water and a very successful one. Directions to the fishery were great and luckily I seemed to be the only angler present that day. Arriving at 1pm and having read the catch reports here, I'd already made my mind up to fish the Powerlines swim. To begin with I fished a groundbait feeder with hair-rigged corn in to the middle of the river (as I'd taken note of the "tackle graveyard" comments previously posted). I was biteless for an hour or so and around this point I made a bit of a hash of a cast, which ended up only going about a third of the way out. A lucky mistake on my part because five minutes later I was attached to the first barbel of the day, which I landed at 6.12lbs. Nine further barbel followed (all from the same spot) and three were lost. Sweetcorn and two different sizes of hair-rigged soft pellets all caught fish. In fact, I would reccomend switching hookbaits regualrly as this often seemed to bring a bite. Didn't try meat as I never seemed to have enough time to get the tin open! However, I didn't really have any issues with tackle loss? Anyway, a real red-letter day - my heartfelt thanks to all at WUF for making this possible, the entire process (booking, directions etc) was excellent.

Very Sunny but with a cool strong breeze. River low and clear. We fished the run off from Boys Rock at the top of the stretch. P D caught 2 Barbel 5lb and 6.5lb on feeder and pellet. Some of the swims are very snaggy and a lot of tackle was lost as a result.

River clear & weather sunny. Realy struggled, very snaggy & no bites all day. Caught 3 barbel between us in the last hour on meat.

5 Barbel to 7lb 14oz and 1 Chub about 3lbs. All to 8mm pellet and/or corn with PVA mesh bags of small pellet. Meat surprisingly unproductive given the amount of colour in the water. Given the conditions, I probably should have caught more but a nice day on a nice stretch anyway. Beware the near bank tackle graveyard in the upper swims. The middle or beyond is better. No problems with directions/access, even the canoeists behaved themselves. Thank you WUF.