Feedback & Reports

This was a short 4 hour session and I took my brother in law who has Parkinson's so hoping for some safe swims to fish which is just what we found. Just to the right of where you can park the car there is a concrete ramp down to a long concrete pontoon about 4 swims long. The river had great even flow and limited canoe traffic. No bites for 1st hour. Moved down stream to another safe section which was a gravel bank with loads of open swims available. This is a big space of water so slightly daunting trying to locate fish. Again no bites. For the last hour we went back to the original swim and fished the deeper inside line 2 rod lengths out. 2 Barbel in the last hour. 7LB and 8LB, both in fantastic condition. I suspect a dusk fishing session in this spot would be excellent. I walked further upstream looking for other swims but these are few and far between plus the flow is rather slow.

2 Barbel

Fishing patchy , some swims produced quite well others seemed fishless.

7 Barbel

We each tried a couple of swims throughout the stretch and caught from each one fished. Best barbel was estimated at 8.08 and the biggest chub was weighted at 4.15. Our usual feeder tactics trying different baits was the method used.

14 Barbel, 13 Chub

2 Barbel

13 barbel caught throughout the day, between 1lb-8lb. River flowing fast and clear but levels up compared to more recent conditions. Great little beat to fish.

13 Barbel, 2 Chub, 1 Other

1 Barbel

2 Barbel, 3 Chub

Very pleasant short session (3pm until dusk) on a lightly fished beat. The upstream end is really not worth bothering with as there are no fishable swims. But there are 3 or 4 reasonable but challenging swims in the bottom field. Tried two of them and the very bottom one produced a barbel of about 7 lb. I suspect this is a beat that fishes better in higher water conditions.

1 Barbel

Bright sunny day but had 2 good Barbel from the deeper water, and then an otter dancing through the swim that killed the action

2 Barbel