Feedback & Reports

Cracking days fishing, the sport was non stop. This beat seems to be the nursery area at the moment as there seems to be only smaller ones to be caught. The largest one of the day was 4lbs 10oz. The largest chub was 3lbs 6oz.
All were caught from the bottom pool on feeder and pellet.

24 Barbel, 6 Chub

Nice beat with plenty of swims available. The opposite bank had a lot of anglers and a working party going on. All fish on swim feeder and pellets. Many thanks.

3 Barbel, 2 Chub

Had few hours today fishing pellet on hook with halibut ground bait last light landed chub of 3-4lbs. River very low and fish not coming out to play.

1 Chub

Water very clear and the days' weather very changeable. Best barbel 6lb 6 oz best chub 4lb - all to pellet.

2 Barbel, 2 Chub

A great day brought to an early end when a group of canoeists decided to practice their watercraft in the swim which I had been building all day.

5 Barbel

No fish at all until evening. Then it went crazy. 14 barbel to 9lbs 10oz. Lost one barbel well in excess of 10lbs. 3 chub to 3lbs 9oz. Method used swim feeder and pellets.

14 Barbel, 3 Chub

Fished 9 am - 3.00 pm. Not ideal time of day but fairly productive, steady bites for most of morning then tailed off later in day. Canoes dislodged a lot of weed which was a nuisance at times. Barbel 4lb - 7.5lb's, most chub 2 -3lb size bracket.
Discarded tackle found in some swims. To whoever: I understand your baiting needle had broken, but why fling it on the floor!? Some comments have said this stretch is a ''tackle grave yard''. To be honest I have never lost a rig on here.... On this occasion I hooked up several times with other anglers tackle through vast lengths of trailing mono in the water. I retrieved multiple feeders and rigs, some with with barbed hooks. Some of these rigs were very crude, with bulky swivels guaranteed to find a snag, and with hooklinks clearly much stronger than the mainline. On one tangled mess there was a decomposed chub attached. My first barbel had a length of mono and a swivel trailing from it's mouth.. There really is no need to use ridiculously heavy weights and huge 80 gram feeders in summer flows, no wonder you keep snagging the bottom. Use common sense and don't blast your feeder into thick weed on the far side! You can catch fish by dropping your bait into the near side, into a clear slot just yards out... try that first. I would urge anyone targeting barbel to do some research into how you make your rigs, so they don't become death traps for the fish. Plenty of information online.

7 Barbel, 5 Chub

Fished all of the lower part of the beat. One barbel late on opposite the two big houses plus a perch on a spinner in margins. Too bright today but a superb beat much improved since last visit. Day 2 of 3.

1 Barbel, 1 Other

Lovely beat with lots of different swims. Caught two Barbel & one chub, all putting up a great fight. Barbel to 8lbs. A pleasure to be on the river with some friends....

2 Barbel, 1 Chub

Although very hot and sunny for most of the day, a great days sport with fish feeding off and on all day. All fish, except 1 chub, came from the bottom end of the fishery - mostly to boilie with odd one to pellets in various forms. Canoe traffic was surprising light although we did have one group that was practicing for a canoeing certificate who were using the croy above my swim as a feature to navigate for an hour and a half. Also had a couple of children bathing and throwing rocks in the river from the opposite bank. However, it didn't bother the fish at all and multiple fish were landed during all the activity.

22 Barbel, 5 Chub