Feedback & Reports

Only me today and I had to leave early due early birth of my grandson and to be honest not to bothered . Recent weather spoilt the day. But will be back. Nice venue.

2 Chub

Very hot only fished a couple of hours

2 Barbel

Just the one chub. Fished the big swim at the end of the tree line about half way up the beat. Back too knackered to yomp to the better swims with faster water. Saw a Dad and Lad land the boy's first ever barbel further down the beat in the very fast channel - looked a clonker. Will travel lighter next time and maybe without my hound buddy.

1 Chub

A wonderful evenings fishing despite the hot weather. Avoided the heat of the day and started at 3pm. A large 7lbs 10 Barbel second cast set the scene and 3 more followed all around the 6lb mark, all to ledgered offerings. Thank you for the strimming - very much appreciated for preventing nettle stings on bare legs!

4 Barbel

A big plus on arrival as ground dry and hard so able to drive down the treeline and park by the river halfway alone the beat. Walked the beat and good to see number of swims cut out upstream, access to all the swims is excellent with strimming been done with a balance between convenience for the angler and maintaining that natural/wild feeling.
We fished 3 swims downstream of the trees. Garlic meat was the go to bait accounting for all but 1 of the chub, the other and the 2 barbel succumbing to paste wrapped green lipped mussel 15mm boilie. Chub to 4lb and barbel 4-5lbs.
River seemed low and clear, blistering hot day with factor 50 not really working. 1 angler on far bank in latter part of day but he obligingly chose not to fish opposite us.

2 Barbel, 10 Chub

Very challenging on this beat today low water low flow caught chub on mainline barbel baits first time i have used them hope to again in better barbel conditions usual 2 eels on meat.

3 Chub, 2 Other

16 Barbel, 3 Chub

well kept beat with good number of swims to fish. Very hot day and fish not wanting to feed

15 Chub, 1 Other

1 Chub

A very hot day on the river which started very slowly but eventually managed some small Chub on the float at the top end but the generator noise precludes prolonged fishing in this area.

Early afternoon was somewhat marred by a scouts canoe group doing capsize training a few yards down from my chosen swim. I was about to move to avoid the chaos when my rod hooped around, and so began what was to be a noisy, chaotic yet productive afternoon/evening.

After 3 hours the canoes moved on and I had a pleasant late afternoon evening of Barbel and Chub sport.

It appears that the Barbel were shoaled up as the two other anglers I was with could only find Chub and Eels.

6 Barbel, 6 Chub