Feedback & Reports

With the limited rods booked on, Terry kindly offered the pick of any of the beats between us all. I fished parts of beats 4, 5 & 6 during the day from around 1pm. The water was low, blanket weed on the stones, no observed activity or bites. Still great to be on the water.
Moved to beat 2 for the last couple of hours. Lovely water. Trying boilies for only the second time.
a half pound chub and as the light began to fade a perfect 7lb hard-fighting barbel. Well worth the wait.

1 Barbel, 1 Chub

Only one fishable and potentially fish-holding swim along the whole length, very steep banks, not helped by low flow.

1 Chub

4 fished,barbel caught from 3 different swims but all in faster shallows

6 Barbel, 5 Chub

1 Chub

No catches as yet today. River very low again. And sunny. Lovely day but struggling with the very fast section holding the bait.

River very low and clear, fished early morning until about 1100 when conditions became too bright.
All fish caught on trotted stick float with bait of sweetcorn and castors, loose fed sweetcorn and castors.
Quite a nice beat albeit short. I think with more water on it will produce better results.

3 Chub, 13 Other

10 Barbel, 6 Chub

River very low. Fished for three hours in the morning only then sun too strong to warrant any further effort. Chub, dace, perch all to trotted sweetcorn and castors/ hempseed. Although a very short beat, with another foot of water on, some colour and cloud cover, potentially could produce better results.

4 Chub, 14 Other

1 Barbel, 57 Chub

Lovely fishery but lack of rain telling on the river. Little signs of fish of any species, the mostly bright conditions just added to the challenge. Even the falling light levels at the end of the day did nothing to bolster our efforts and in the end my daughter and I had no fish gracing our net but we left with lovely memories of a pleasant picnic by the river!