Feedback & Reports

Sadly, my fishing partner was unable to make it with me so I had the pool to myself. Water was very coloured, but the roach seemed to like my sweetcorn even though it was offered to their larger cousins who I had seen cruising aimlessly through the shallow waters. A change to 15mm pellet in the afternoon brought a beautiful unmarked mirror carp of about 18/20 pounds to the net and my day was complete.

7 Other

Lucky enough to have fished this beat many times over the past 25 years or more. Fish fed first thing in morning and then again in evening. Although river is low if you can find the snags you can still catch, but you may lose a few as I did. Need to stock up on more feeders!

12 Barbel, 4 Chub

A great day on this stretch of river. Started 0700 hrs found fish @ 1200 hrs then caught till 1530hrs when sun came out & they stopped feeding immediately. Barbel 8lb-2oz & 8lb-7oz, Chub around 4lb-8oz. Trout was a shock on boilie! Thanks to Mr Richards who probably saved me from a coronary with the taxi ride to the river. 1 mink spotted opposite bank.

1 Trout, 2 Barbel, 3 Chub

River low and clear. Only fished 8am til 2pm due to other plans (someone was getting married). Fished the lower end of the beat. First cast on pellet feeder - 8lb barbel. Second cast - 8lb barbel. Then it went quiet.
Decided to change to Wagler with carp pellets and had plenty of chub to 4lb, then it went quiet again. Back on the feeder I had one more barbel 7lb and some chub to 4lb.
Back on the float with meat the chub were feeding well. Over 20 chub caught but I lost count.
Great few hours spent on a fanatastic beat. Had a quick chat with Colin but I was running late and had to leave.
Can't wait until next time. Thanks wuf.

3 Barbel, 20 Chub

Kayaks every 10 minutes. A waste of time, nil caught.

Started off at the lower end of beat where the swims are very difficult to gain access to and had 1 small chub. Then moved to the upper section of beat a lot easier to get into swims and fish....the fishing was slow to say the least, and the weather was terrible - wind and rain with the only rewards for the move was a barbel around the 4lb mark and a decent perch dropped at the net. On a much brighter note if you travel a good way which we do and stay the night before, you wont find anywhere better than "THE OLD MILL" at Hoarwithy, a lovely b&b which I cannot fault and they couldn't have been more welcoming or helpful... coupled with the pub across the road made up for the poor fishing.

1 Barbel, 1 Chub

Fished from first light, had one barbel of around 3 pounds, after about an hour. Left at 9.30am.

1 Barbel

As with the day previously my fishing pal had to cry off as still under the weather. Tried several sswims until the weather turned wet and then stayed put under the umbrella for the rest of the day. Plenty of chub action but just a couple of barbel after 5 p.m. Usual method of feeder and pellet.

2 Barbel, 10 Chub

River was low, slow, clear and conditions were bright and warm. Only fished from 0700 until 1400 as from about 0900 there was a constant stream of canoes and at times, groups of 10 to 20. Most were good and went to the middle to far side but there were enough just coming within 5m of the back to make even fishing 1/4 to 1/3 of the way out impossible at times.
Lovely stretch and will prob go again but more autum/winter when hopefully there will be less traffic. We did manage one 8lb Barbel before the canoes arrived.

1 Barbel

Despite the very low clear water (or maybe because of) fish were hard to find in any number and we didn't catch many when we found them. We did do a lot of healthy walking!

5 Barbel, 4 Chub