Feedback & Reports

The river was exceptionally low with clear views of the bottom through less than a foot of water well out into the middle run. The sun shone strongly all day it was possible to watch eels scouring the river bed for debris.
The only fishing option was to target the stronger flow between the cribs. Trotting down with meat through the fast water produced a good number of knocks and some good chub were taken, two over six pounds. It also found the eels!
The original target fish, barbel, was not to be found however despite fishing the bottom pitch in every recommended way. Boilies, meat, corn, pellets and the rest all produced no takes, not even from chub.
A delightful day despite the lack of barbel. Thanks Don for the advice.
Five chub. Best 6 pounds. Eels.

5 Chub

Usually do superb this time of year on this beat, conditions were spot on, little bit of colour but fairly low, which is when the beat seems to fish at it's best. Fished late morning through until the evening, in total we landing 4 Barbel (2 each) and also lost a couple. All fish landed were all over 9 pound, including one to me mates rod which was just over 10. Some cracking Chub made an apperance, with 3 of these fish going over 5.5lb, a lot of slighty smaller ones between 2-3.5lb Fantastic beat which I have fished on a few occasions and done extremely well. Barbel are certainly still spawning, give it a week or so and this beat will be lifting.

4 Barbel, 12 Chub

The barbel are still spawning (I observed this one evening on the camp site I was staying at)so I think they are two to three weeks behind due to the low Spring/early Summer temperatures.
A hot day and the water at normal levels. Fished the upper section with its fast water without a knock in three hours and decided to pack up and drive to the lower section as this water was new to me. On walking all that I decided not to fish any more that day.

No fish caught again. Please note very disappointed to see 6 people turn up to fish on a stretch for 4 - luckily we got there early and had been able to secure our swims.
River was very low, fished with swim feeders, using every bait that we had with us.

WUF note - Please contact the Foundation office on the day of fishing to report any possible poaching incidents so they can be addressed immediately.

This was the first day of 3 days on this beat. We had just had 3 days excellent fishing on Kerne Bridge. We arrived early but knew we were going to struggle as the water was low and the weather forecast was hot clear sky's but we did enjoy our day.

1 Barbel, 4 Chub

Warn sunny day, river level normal with clear water. Began fishing at 9.30am and fished till 9.30pm. Took 2 chub & 7 barbel all to ledger using a variety of baits. Excellent days fishing.

7 Barbel, 2 Chub

Like yesterday, another tough day when the barbel didn't feed with any enthusiasm. 4 barbel to 7lb 5oz ,a couple of chub and a nice eel of a couple of pounds. All fish taken on feeder and pellets.

4 Barbel, 2 Chub

My first visit to this beat, which is beautiful both lower and upper beat. The lower being the easier to fish and access, unfortunately no fish banked today.

Came with Shingles, left with Shingles and not much else!

1 Barbel, 3 Chub

Really nice beat to fish, not far to walk from the car but the steep wooded hill you have to walk up to get back to your car can be tricky in the evening. Had some lovely barbel out from the croy at the very end of the beat, we were using pellets and roaming around a fair bit, trying out all the swims, some were easier then others to fish but still had a lovely day, good weather. The river was quite low.

6 Barbel, 2 Chub