Feedback & Reports

Same conditions, beautiful for fishing but not ideal for catching fish! P and myself today and P opted to fish both float and feeder from the first croy. I chose the next croy down to do the same. I started on the float with 8mm pellet and P on the feeder, with no response on the feeder. P switched to the float and caught Chub straight away but despite fishing exactly the same way, I couldn't get a bite and after a couple of hours on the feeder, decided to move upstream to the Oxford run which looked good but was slow with the added problem of lots of floating weed coming down which I'm convinced caused me to pull out of a Barbel about 6pm. Alas a blank for me but P did well with 14 Chub to 4lbs on the float and 2 Barbel and 2 Chub on the feeder.

2 Barbel, 16 Chub

A family affair today with Grandad K, son A and Grandson J, fishing past the bend and again getting bites early and late they caught well with K recording 2 Barbel and 3 Chub,A 2 Barbel and 13 Chub and J once again showing the way with 8 Barbel to 8.01 and 3 Chub to 4.02, groundbait feeder and pellet again the best method.

12 Barbel, 13 Chub

6lb 4oz Barbel caught with feeder and pellet at 6.45am at pool at the far end of the beat. Barbel in beautiful condition. Lost two further large fish in rocks. At least 4 large salmon jumping in this pool.

1 Barbel

I fished the Island Pool early morning for 2 barbel & a chub before moving to a swim by the pumping station. No action there so moved back to the Island Pool and had another barbel and 2 chub in the evening. The fish were caught on Extracta pellets and/or meat.

3 Barbel, 3 Chub

Wow! What a stunning piece of water. Very low water, clear river and high air pressure conditions was always going to make it tough going. However, I managed a lovely barbel and chub during my 3 hour session.
Thanks to WUF as always for the clear maps and a good selection of swims.

1 Barbel, 1 Chub

As expected we arrived to a very shallow stretch, the water being gin clear as well. I set my stall out for chub given the conditions and had an early 3lber on the float with corn. Set up the feeder after about 3 hours and fished over the top of the loose feed and had a barbel and 3 more chub all on meat, nothing on pellet. My son had set up in the last swim and had to wait until early evening for 3 chub, again on meat.
With a few feet of water on a nice short beat for two anglers.
Thanks Allyson in the office for sorting out the roadworks!

1 Barbel, 7 Chub

River low with colour but difficult. 4 anglers spread out throughout stretch, no obvious holding spots.

5 Barbel, 3 Chub

Low clear river, hot and sunny in the day, two bites all day, one pike landed weighing 18lb 9oz taken on a small roach trotted through slack water. Day ended early with a trip to A&E with a poorly finger cut to the bone chopping the head off a mackerel whilst trying not to take my eye of the float. Still a good day out.

1 Pike

River low and clear, on a bright sunny day. All fish caught legering meat and pellets in shallow channels in the prolific streamer weed. Watch out for the many swans, as they can easily fly into your line. Quite a few anglers on the opposite non WUF side, though they kept mainly to the bridge pools.

7 Barbel, 12 Chub

Hot and sunny conditions. Stunning setting and landscape. Varied water types through the beat though swim access is very limited. No fish on this day.