Feedback & Reports

A great days fishing, fish on all day. Ten or so chub caught on float rod with trotting bread flake. The rest cought on ledger with luncheon meat and pellet.

1 Barbel, 20 Chub

Fished the full day, with fish coming fairly regularly. 6 barbel in the morning with a few chub, then a switch to meat brough a chub a cast and I lost count of the number. The afternoon was slow, but from around 6pm things picked up and particularly the last couple of hours of the day when the barbel realy appeared to move in.

15 Barbel, 25 Chub

Tough going during the day fish only starting feeding around 7pm. Timebomb method with a variety of hookbaits.

5 Barbel, 3 Chub

Having fished this beat 2 years ago we were looking forward to our first session from late afternoon having driven up from London earlier. We were disappointed to find two anglers set up with their platforms stationed in mid river, fishing the deep water close in to our bank in the swims we had planned to fish. They left after a few of hours so my fishing partner was able to fish one of the swims and landed 3 immaculate Barbel to 7lbs 3 Chub and an eel. I stayed in the first swim by the line of trees and caught a nice Barbel around 4lbs later on. We were booked in the next day for a full session on the beat.

4 Barbel, 3 Chub, 1 Other

7 chub in swim next to hut. Long walk to lucky stone swim was a waste of time as people fishing on the far side.

7 Chub

Another warm day with a few showers. Fished Boys Rocks from the island. River clear and low, but looked promising. Unfortunately I tried everything I knew, pellets, meat, paste, corn, etc, but I couldn't buy a barbel. I did pull out of one and caught an eel, but that was it. Decided to call it a day at 1pm as I planned an early start the next day. I notice that the anglers the following day had the same result. Some times it's your day and sometimes not, but it's still a very great river to fish.

1 Other

Great days fishing despite bright conditions. All fish caught using feeder with hemp and pellets. Barbel to 7lb and chub to 4lb. Was more productive as the sun dropped about 7pm. We fished from about 1pm to 10 pm.

8 Barbel, 8 Chub

Great days fishing despite bright conditions. All fish caught using feeder with hemp and pellets. Barbel to 7lb and chub to 4lb. Was more productive as the sun dropped about 7pm. We fished from about 1pm to 10 pm.

8 Barbel, 8 Chub

Very, very tough.
2 anglers fished the bottom 2 pegs in the wood from 9am to 8pm. 1 angler fished a complete blank while I resorted to fishing meat just to get bites and ended up with a dozen eels and 3 small chub.
No bites on pellet or corn. Canoes were a nightmare, there were literally hundreds from 9am to 5pm, diving into the water in the swims being fished - though I don't think it actually made any difference to the fishing. The general ignorance of some people is quite astounding.

3 Chub, 12 Other

Tough going today not a knock till 6pm then chub started feeding. All between 3-5lb the barbel was 8-9lb.

1 Barbel, 6 Chub