Feedback & Reports

Arrived at just after 6am, the river was falling and around 0.8m at Ross. The water was still fairly coloured.
I decided to fish the wooded section, where under the water conditions, there was one fishable swim. The fishing was fairly slow throughout the day, and the canoe/inflatable and wake boarding traffic was pretty much non-stop until 6pm, most were courteous, but for a couple of groups I had to wind in.
During the main part of the day, I caught 3 Barbel, best around 7lb and one Chub.
During the evening the Chub started a small flurry of feeding, with a couple of them around the 5lb mark.
All fish were caught using a feeder and Halibut pellet as hook bait.
The evening time was lovely on this stretch, once the road and river traffic subsided.
Thank you again for the river access and an overall good days fishing.

4 Barbel, 6 Chub

2 Barbel, 6 Chub

Had a great day ,weather was to hot but nice day to be on bank .

2 Chub, 1 Other

2 Barbel, 4 Chub

After two days of rain we found the river to be up around a further 2ft overnight. It was carrying quite a bit of colour and lots of debris. After some discussion we settled on pegs at the very far downstream end of the beat and occupied pegs either side of the tree with the rope swing. The river dropped a lot throughout the day but remained quite pacey.
The fishing proved to be much better than expected given the conditions. We landed a total of 19 Barbel with all of the fish being in the 6lb - 7.5lb range. The sport was steady but with a couple of purple patches when there were a lot of feeding fish around. Unusually, pellet wasn't the best bait and most fell to sweetcorn. Fewer Chub were showing today but, in my experience, they tend not to feed so well when there's lots of colour in the water.

19 Barbel, 13 Chub, 4 Other

Nice beat with good bank access

3 Barbel

another trip to this beat , water level up and coloured . Fished steadily through the day with some nice fish landed. Hope to return again some time soon .

9 Barbel, 14 Chub

Arrived to find most of the forest of Dean floating down river. Mass of debris in the water making impossible to put a line out and the water level meant that the majority of swims were not accessible. Fished on the far bank below the bridge to start but after a few hours gave up as conditions bad. Moved back to the roadside and found in the last swim i could fish sitting on the steps. Had a 6lb Chub fishing slightly down stream about a road length out just behind a tree. Had 3 more over 4lbs over the next couple of hours. Then after a 30m run down the centre lost a barbel after which it when quiet. Had a couple of hours sleep and had a good evening with 6 more Chub all good fish mostly between 4.5 to 5.5lbs and a consolation Barbel of 5.5Lbs. River level dropped 12ins during the day and conditions were nice by the evening.

1 Barbel, 10 Chub

Tough day, river well up after recent rain. Fished slack water on 2 swims with very little to show for our efforts. Lovely beat and will be back in better conditions.

2 Chub

Great looking beat, river up around five feet coloured and pacy. I fished the wood section which in hindsight was probably a mistake, as the flow was quickest here and impossible to hold bottom so had to stick to the margins. One eel, two chub 4lb each and a barbel 8lb 2oz. One more small barbel in the top section to finish the day. Many thanks W&U

2 Barbel, 2 Chub, 1 Other