Feedback & Reports

stinking hot day....frazzled on the bankside....chub on the tip on meat....stepped up to 18mm lamprey and smoked herring pellet...caught bigger chub...then had the 3 good sized barbel.....river seemed low but probably normal for time of year.....will return after some rain....didn't really catch 200 chub but I wasn't counting... more like 20+

3 Barbel, 20 Chub

Feeder fishing with pellets

3 Chub

Brilliant fishing, so many chub I lost count. Feeding lots of hemp and pellets, the more I feed the quantity of chub increased . At some periods the swim was black with chub and they came right underneath the feed .

1 Barbel, 40 Chub

2 anglers fished. As we had booked all 5 rods on a 1mile double bank beat for exclusivity it was annoying to have another angler opposite on the lower end. I see from previous catch reports this is not the first time this has occurred this season.
Clearly two swims on the opposite have been fished quite regularly since the beginning of the season. The angler had driven to his chosen swim along the river bank below the castle.
Well maintained beat, and good access

7 Barbel, 30 Chub

Feeder fishing for chub and barbel.
Caught lots of Chub.

3 Barbel, 9 Chub

Others were 3 eels, 1 dace

4 Barbel, 44 Chub, 4 Other

A very disappointing morning session. conditions seemed perfect, the venue was beautiful, swims were accessible - but the fish weren't playing. We tried multiple swims and baits but only managed 3 small chub between us.

3 Chub

We arrived at a coloured but low river and struggled for bites in the most prolific of the swims. Eventually found some chub and caught around 25 between us, but the barbel were not playing ball despite seeing them throughout the day.

25 Chub

37 Chub