Feedback & Reports

All started off well trotting maggot and in first ten minutes landed a clonker of about 5 pound. Then the wind picked up and played havoc with my centrepin so decided to switch to feeder. Did not get a nibble for about two hours then found a lovely looking spot. Fish came every cast for an hour or two. Smallest was 2 pound, all the rest between 2-3 pounds, a lovely beat with a good number of chub. I lost 2 or 3 and got smashed by 2 fish which were very heavy.

10 Chub

My third time at this venue and it's just as nice in winter as in summer. Plan was to fish for Barbel and Chub while stopping to drop deadbaits into any pikey looking slacks on my way up and down the river but leaving my deadbaits in the freezer stopped that idea. In the end the Barbel eluded me but I had five great condition Chub with the biggest weighing 4lb exactly and another at 3 1/2 pounds. All fish were taken on ocean pride squabs with hemp and pellet in the feeder, with two caught using a centrepin.
I also removed another angler's litter, a squashed hemp tin by the river in the bottom field.

5 Chub

A slow day with only 2 chub on pellet feeder.

2 Chub

We fished Saturday and Sunday at Whitney, Saturday beat 2 and 4, Sunday beat 6. The river was low and clear making fishing difficult, the strong blustery wind made it hard to control a float. The chub were tucked away under trees and could not be tempted out by maggot and float. All fish were caught right under cover on meat and cheese paste. The one small grayling came to maggot.
Met Terry the Bailiff who was very helpful.

1 Grayling, 7 Chub

Fished 7.30am to 6.00pm, water temp.6c, air temp 16c, bright sunny day, light wind SW.
Track down the side of the orchard too muddy needed a 4x4.
Parked on the bend in the road. Fished 5th & 6th pegs into the meadow. Barbel & Chub caught on a hair-rig bunch of red maggots with a feeder of hemp and halibut pellets. Trout & grayling on trotted red maggots.
What a lovely stretch of river. On to Preston Court for the final day.

3 Trout, 1 Grayling, 1 Barbel, 2 Chub

Difficult to find many swims to fish with wind coming into our faces. Couldn't find many swims at all at the top end.

1 Barbel, 3 Chub

Fishing was patchy with fish feeding in short spells, river looked great, all fish falling to pellet.

4 Barbel, 5 Chub

Three anglers fished three separate stretches of W and U including Courtfield. The river looked in perfect condition but unfortunately the fish failed to play the game. Total catch for all three beats was six chub and one barbel. Hope to do better in August.

1 Barbel, 6 Chub

Our first time on this beat, so decided to split up with RW taking the roving approach covering the top end of the beat, and RB going for the static approach at the lower end. The deeper water towards the top end of the first field proved the most productive, where RB caught the 2 barbel. A beautiful mild day in stunning surroundings made all the more enjoyable.

2 Barbel, 2 Chub

Nice, quite clear water. Most of bites happened from half an hour before the sunset to an hour after.

1 Barbel, 3 Chub