Feedback & Reports

Fished Beats 4 & 5 for 2 days, Saturday & Sunday, 3 Barbel 6-7lb, 9 Chub 3 - 4 1/2 lb. Thanks to Terry for the information.

3 Barbel, 9 Chub

Great days fishing in gorgeous surroundings all fish caught on pellet feeder and a dumbell boilie hookbait. Fished a number of swims from the pumping station to the private section. 3 barbel weighed 2lb, 8lb 3oz and 9lb all in superb condition.

3 Barbel, 9 Chub

Warm overcast day, river low and clear but rose probably a couple of inches during the day. Fishing not like any other WUF beat. Managed the tricky path to the bottom pool. Arrived ridiculously early after a 2 hour drive, due to previous reports scaremongering about canoeists. Yes there were plenty but all courteous and had no noticeable effect on the fishing.
Had a 3lb chub first cast on ledgered meat and then switched to elips pellet with 50g black cap feeder filled with 4mm elips. Biggest chub was probably 4.5lb, barbel 4lb. Never seen, let alone caught, barbel as small as some of them - some even caught 'on the drop'. Probably only 8-9 of the fish were 'netters'. Lost countless (10-15) hook lengths (perhaps 5lb was too light?) on snag in mid-river.
Interesting day, good fun, but not sure would fish this beat again. Cormorant spotted 4 times along with mink strolling along the far bank.

19 Barbel, 3 Chub

Water levels were fine but gin clear. Tried a number of methods with the only fish being a 5lb Chub from Boys Rock Pool. Canoe traffic was very heavy.

1 Chub

First visit of the season. Long drive but arrived at 6am fishing by 6:45am just as it started raining! And it rained until 4pm. First time I'd fished Foy Bridge. Small beat with only a few swims. Once it stopped raining and with the benefit of polaroid sunglasses, it was clear that probably only 3 swims that were really fishable. Barbel didn't want to play but if you fished for chub I'm sure you could really bag up. Lost three decent Barbel to the snags (and some of the swims are really snaggy). Access and parking are easy and most of the few swims have steps down to the waters edge.
Not a great day and the weather was miserable even when it stopped raining, but as per normal can't wait to get back.

1 Barbel, 6 Chub

Heavy rain for the entire morning made conditions difficult with plenty of weed being washed down river. I managed a couple of barbel to 8lb 10oz mid-afternoon once the rain stopped. Both fish came to pellet and from the upper end of the beat in deeper water.

2 Barbel

Nothing at all, not even a slight tap on the rod tip all day. Very disappointed.

Arrived on a very wet Friday morning, had a good walk before settling into a swim, I had intended to rotate between 3 or 4 spots but with the slippery banks decided to stay in one. Finished with 6 barbel on a mixture of pellet and 3 chub also on pellet. All barbel between 5-7lb. will return for another crack at this venue hopefully on a dry day.

6 Barbel, 3 Chub

Fished 2 swims, from about lunchtime to early evening. 1 chub and 2 barbel caught, all from pellet and feeder cast to overhanging bushes on the far side. Nice stretch of water in great surroundings. Thanks WUF.

2 Barbel, 1 Chub

Visiting angler John Green Fished beat 5 in the PM in the run into Loxters Pool. Slow start but finished up with good sport on bread flake. Best barbel about 10lb.

8 Barbel, 4 Chub