Feedback & Reports

Beautiful spot, terrible fishing! My wife and I have fished this beat a couple of times before and had a lot of success but just couldn't buy a bite this time. River was just starting to rise and the swim looked great for barbel and chub but not a tap all afternoon or evening on either pellet or meat. I guess that's just the way it is with fishing sometimes and one of the reasons the mystery of rivers draws me back. Will certainly be back despite a poor day as I know the beat's potential from other sessions. Kingfisher whizzing back and forth all day was a lovely distraction from the motionless rods.

Decent day in changeable conditions. Had 6 decent chub between us, biggest 4lb 8oz and at last knockings managed a barbel of 5lb 1oz, cracking condition. Upper part of the stretch (Orchards field) is pretty unfishable so concentrate efforts in field next door and further down.

1 Barbel, 7 Chub

River low, weather variable (sun, heavy showers). The swims are a lot more overgrown than last year but just about fishable. Tried as much of the upper half of the beat as feasible. Just the one Barbel from the top most swim.

1 Barbel

1 Barbel, 8 Chub

11 Barbel

The river was very low. Managed 2 barbel on feeder tactics.

2 Barbel

Fished roving all around the meadow swims. Tactics included float, feeder and float paternoster. We fished the morning and early afternoon but heavy rain meant we took a break until the evening. Fish caught were lots of dace and chub and minnows, and one lost pike of around 10lb. The evening session after the rain included 3 barbel of 6lb,and 7.5lb to T Everitt and a cracking 10lb barbel to A Davis. All fish were in superb condition. We enjoyed this session very much.

3 Barbel, 4 Chub, 10 Other

Similarly as hard as the day before. Weather didn't help but nothing we could do about that. Tried numerous swims throughout the stretch with a multitude of baits all to no avail. Two small Barbel both fell to sweetcorn.

2 Barbel

Second day on the beat, started out in the rope pool for a few hours which proved hopeless, moved up to the upper part and started catching well through the afternoon.
Weather was awful so only myself out of the 3 of us braved the weather but it was well worth it.
Fish were all between 7-9lb

4 Barbel

Horrible weather. Fishing tough going. Fish caught to feeder just upstream of the fishing Hut. Lovely looking stretch of river.

2 Barbel, 1 Chub