Feedback & Reports

First visit to this stretch.Easily accessible and great views across the river. Water was a little low and clear but we had fish throughout the day on feeder and pellets and rolling meat.Lots of small Barbel here which is great to see for the future of the river but could not land one over 2 Lbs or so. some very good chub with a large amount of the total caught around the 4 Lb mark or more.
great days fishing enjoyed every minute and would love to try this spot again when there is a little more water running.

16 Barbel, 34 Chub

Arrived at the Creel, parked in the Church Yard and walked the beat, very disappointed that the caravan site has taken over the last field and lots of people fishing the river.
Not like last year and decided to fish elsewhere for the 2 days we were booked on the Creel. I understand the farmer wants to make money of course but being selfish it has put a damper on this beat now.

1st of two days on a beautiful stretch of river. Barbel coming out at regular internals from all along the river, which was slightly coloured and pretty perfect. 8mm Pellet on a band and Halibut ground-bait worked best in a feeder. Biggest was just over 8lb and had chub consistently up to 4lb.
An amazing days fishing in an amazing place. Dog walkers were all very friendly and canoeists never caused any problems.

13 Barbel, 15 Chub

Fished from late afternoon to the evening, low water, if fishing from the croy watch our for a big snag immediately below as you face downstream (about 20 out and 8 or so yards from the L bank,) cheers!

1 Barbel, 1 Chub

A very enjoyable day in a great setting. Steady action on meat through the day.

2 Barbel, 7 Chub

4 Barbel, 12 Chub

Lots of fish, but difficult to get through the chub to find the barbel. Even with a feeder, the bait was taken on the drop on virtually every cast.
The reported chub figure of 60, may well have been an underestimate as I lost count.

7 Barbel, 60 Chub

First time on this beat in the summer, so a bit of a learning curve. Fished a morning session and an evening session. It took a while to locate some feeding fish, several decent looking swims didn't produce a bite before I fished an average looking swim in the second field and was into fish quickly. Probably should have done better, lost a couple of Barbel to inexplicable hook pulls, but never mind. Not as many canoes as I expected!

3 Barbel, 3 Chub

Travelled back home today so fished the afternoon only. Managed 2 barbel from the top field then it went very quiet so moved below the woods. This is the lowest I've seen the river when fishing Sugwas so it was very interesting to be able to see the bottom in pegs I've caught from in the past.
We catapulted out some pellets in a known swim and saw 1 barbel and some chub almost immediately, however after catching 1 chub it went quiet. We fished various swims for the afternoon then when packing up at 5pm I spotted a barbel again - after putting out some more pellets we saw 6 barbel in the swim with fish flashing constantly. We quickly set up again and gave it 30mins but couldn't coax one into taking the bait.
A hard but enjoyable day and I can confidently say that if we had been fishing until dark then we would have had a few barbel. I think the low water level put the fish off feeding this afternoon.

2 Barbel, 1 Chub

Fishing poor again! Plenty of canoes though and boats with motors on? We don't mind the canoes if there quiet when passing, but when you're paying £22 a ticket to have people jumping in off boats and swimming through your swims its a bit of a joke to be fair!

2 Barbel, 6 Chub