Feedback & Reports

River in good order and floating weed less of a problem today. 5 barbel to 9-06 on feeder and pellet. Pleasant stretch of river.

5 Barbel

Water dropping and clearing - no fish till later in the day.

5 Barbel, 6 Chub

Fished 3 swims on roadside. Barbel of 8.02 & 7.10, along with 12 Chub to 3.5lb. Both Barbel came to pellet in last hour.

2 Barbel, 12 Chub

3 Barbel taken from Mid Legg meadow, all on boilie.

10lb 1oz
11lb 6oz
9lb 4oz

First three Barbel caught personally - chuffed to bits (especially with the 2nd one!).

Also to note, 4 or 5 salmon surfacing during the day.

A great day.

3 Barbel

A bright and warm October day, water coloured, not much flow past the bridge, it was a long walk from the parking place up to the Islands so best to travel light (the last time I used the upper parking on the old railway track it was very overgrown and brambles were scratching my car). The flow picked up a fair pace by the Islands and I had a smallish Barbel with my first cast on pellets, nothing after that. Moved back down past the bridge and had a good size Barbel about midday. Lost another which shredded my 25lb braid hook link on an obstruction.

2 Barbel

3 Barbel

Fished from early to dusk, from the woods to the meadow but could only manage one take and unfortunately lost the fish to a snag. Fishing partner did much better with three lovely barbel.

3 Barbel

Good day with fish shared between both rods. Best barbel was 9lbs 4ozs and chub was 4lbs 9ozs. All caught on pellet.

15 Barbel, 3 Chub

Arrived Sunday evening to recce the beat,without the other anglers' van in the carpark or the farmer offering a lift it would have been difficult to know where to park as there is no WUF sign.By Tuesday the colour had largely gone and the flow had gone from the water compared to 36hrs previously.My two colleagues fished on the top bend and I was below in faster water,very little activity after a few hours on the feeder so when it got brighter in the afternoon we fished float for a few hours and caught trout dace and small chub almost every cast on maggot. All the action from the bigger fish was in the last couple of hours of daylight back on feeder and pellet. Ended up with 2 barbel 8lbs and 5lbs and 5 chub
around the 3lbs mark.Lovely piece of river with comfortable pegs and good access with the pegs marked at the top of the bank with a wooden post, would have fished better with more colour in the river and a less bright day.

2 Barbel, 5 Chub, 40 Other

Thanks Stan for the usual good advice and patience with obstinate old men (and for step cutting and offers of transport of heavy bags etc!) - a beautiful day.

10 Barbel, 3 Chub