Feedback & Reports

Difficult days fishing with river running very low and clear. Fished from 8.30am to 9.30pm with nothing caught until 8pm when we managed to catch 4 Barbel and 4 Chub with a couple of Barbel lost. The best Barbel weighed 11Lb 4oz which Adam the bailiff thinks may be the biggest Barbel on the beat due to a distinguishing mark on her dorsal fin, at her best she's weighed 12Lb 6oz (on record). Would love to come back and fish this stretch when the river is in a better condition.

A nice fishery with the river a little low. However the fish were very hard to find and only a couple of smallish chub. Many canoeists were a real pain, swimming off the croys and a couple capsised in my swim.

River low and clear, loose weed drifting downstream catching line a problem. Hard day, fish seemed wary of pellet, had 1 barbel (8.4) and 2 chub, barbel and best chub to garlic meat. The other anglers on the beat struggled too, only a couple of barbel between them.

Managed to break my current barbel drought at last. Spent the bulk of the day watching my dad hauling chub without getting a single nibble myself. Wet and windy, so I wasn't that keen to go roving, but I'm glad I did, because at about 5pm I found the barbel tightly shoaled up and proceeded to take 7 in 90 mins, averaging 6lb, 7lb the biggest. There seem to be fish all over the stretch, mainly chub, but in low water conditions the barbel obviously hold up in one or two areas. Find these and the sport is very, very good. Not as big as the barbel in some other WUF stretches, but quite willing to eat baits, and many were completely unmarked with no evidence of having been hooked previously. Great day.

Never seen the river so low here, fishing was very hard with the fish only being caught in the usual holes around the Vanstone pool. We managed 8 Barbel and 10 chub and 4 eels on a variety of baits.

Greeted with very low water conditions, and relatively bright skies. Fishing proved very difficult with only 3 barbel and 10 chub being caught.
Hopefully fishing will improve when there is a decent amount of water in the river. Nice to see that there are a few more swims marked, but would be better if flat fishing platforms could be introduced.

WOW best days fishing ever. Where do I start. Started fishing 7.30am caught chub steadily all day upto 6lb, me and my mate must of had 40 good sized fish and plenty of dace and smaller chub. Decided to move downstream about 7pm and thats when the fun really started, fished till 9.30pm. In this 2 1/2 hour spell I had 10 barbel over 5lb upto 7lb and my mate had 13 barbel of the same weight. I have never seen such a feeding frenzy like it they were leaping out of the water taking on the drop. Halibut pellets caught them all. Thanks WUF

My son and I fished early morning to late evening, 6 chub 3 barbel, all nice clean fish, canoes not a problem. Thanks to Allyson at the booking office.

12 barbel, 12 chub caught on pellet & meat. Cracking day. Many thanks to Seth for putting us on the fish.

8 barbel between the three of us to 8lb 4oz. Lovely bit of river with lush pasture to fish from.